Mining Incidents

Ewing Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Dustin James Pettingill
Mountainair, Torrance County, NM  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 2902253

Ewing Pit has $14K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1K outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2006
68
citations
18
significant & substantial
$13,714
proposed penalties
$12,482
paid to date
91% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,232 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2005
43
inspections on record
548
inspection hours
n/a
citations per 100 inspection hours
This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
Rate withheld: 548 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Ewing Pit has $14K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1K outstanding across 1 contested dockets.

Penalty disposition
Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
$14K
proposed penalties
$14K
current assessed
$12K
paid to date
$1K
outstanding
68 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-03-25.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Quarterly safety rates
Citations per million reported employee-hours. Rates begin in 2000, when MSHA's quarterly employment data starts; earlier incidents are counted but cannot be rate-adjusted. Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2025 Q4 2,323 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 3,068 3 0 977.8
2025 Q2 3,400 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 2,398 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 1,978 2 0 1011.1
2024 Q3 2,709 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 3,741 1 0 267.3
2024 Q1 3,345 0 0 0.0
Show 55 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 2,106 1 0 474.8
2023 Q3 2,308 5 1 2166.4
2023 Q2 2,242 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 2,170 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 2,739 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 2,353 4 0 1700.0
2022 Q2 1,413 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 2,368 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1,459 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,235 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 2,165 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 2,007 1 1 498.3
2020 Q4 1,941 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 2,675 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 2,529 1 1 395.4
2020 Q1 2,326 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 2,397 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 2,274 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 3,289 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 2,622 3 0 1144.2
2018 Q4 3,620 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 3,748 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 4,974 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 5,520 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 5,661 1 0 176.6
2013 Q1 40 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 20 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 2,445 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 0 0 0
2011 Q2 0 0 0
2010 Q2 10 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 5 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 326 2 1 6135.0
2009 Q3 4,054 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 3,456 2 2 578.7
2009 Q1 2,100 4 3 1904.8
2008 Q4 1,991 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 3,080 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 2,887 3 1 1039.1
2008 Q1 3,933 7 3 1779.8
2007 Q4 2,816 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 1,160 3 0 2586.2
2007 Q2 1,160 2 0 1724.1
2007 Q1 1,782 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 1,468 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 2,160 5 1 2314.8
2006 Q2 3,240 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 3,200 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 1,920 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 240 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 840 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 640 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 0 0 0
2004 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 0 0 0

No reportable incidents on file.

MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents for this mine in the current dataset. New reports appear here within a week of being filed.

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