FCI South LLC has $21K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1K outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2019
Latest incident
Oct 2019
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2019
93
citations
20
significant & substantial
$21,303
proposed penalties
$20,127
paid to date
94% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,176 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2019
25
inspections on record
292
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: 292 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
FCI South LLC has $21K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1K outstanding across 0 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.
$21K
proposed penalties
$21K
current assessed
$20K
paid to date
$1K
outstanding
93 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-10-21.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
ⓘShares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
FCI South LLC recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2025.
Injury rate, 2025
ⓘThis rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.65 and the all-US-mining average was 1.97 cases per 100 workers.
In Texas, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.17 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Year
total case rate
days-away
fatal
2025 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2023 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2022 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2020 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2019 *
2.06
0.00
0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2026
7
2025
15
2024
11
2023
15
2022
14
2021
8
2020
22
2019
33
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
FCI South LLC sits in Live Oak County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 7.1% of county employment.
Local economic context
ⓘCounty figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.
Live Oak County, Texas · Population 11,444
7.1%
Mining share of county employment
$53,869
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
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
2026 Q2
980
0
0
0.0
2026 Q1
900
0
0
0.0
2025 Q4
5,937
17
1
2863.4
2025 Q3
1,662
0
0
0.0
2025 Q2
11,092
0
0
0.0
2025 Q1
4,192
0
0
0.0
2024 Q2
3,964
0
0
0.0
2024 Q1
9,630
0
0
0.0
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4
8,950
1
0
111.7
2023 Q3
7,956
4
0
502.8
2023 Q2
10,270
0
0
0.0
2023 Q1
7,771
0
0
0.0
2022 Q4
9,946
0
0
0.0
2022 Q3
9,555
8
3
837.3
2022 Q2
9,585
0
0
0.0
2022 Q1
9,525
5
3
524.9
2021 Q1
2,419
0
0
0.0
2020 Q4
2,924
0
0
0.0
2020 Q3
3,162
0
0
0.0
2020 Q2
13,613
6
1
440.8
2020 Q1
35,737
0
0
0.0
2019 Q4
34,813
11
2
316.0
2019 Q3
38,715
26
7
671.6
2019 Q2
22,891
1
0
43.7
2019 Q1
633
4
3
6319.1
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
1 on file
2019 · 1 incident
October 22, 2019TX · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Remove a barrel from a shaft at the shop under the miner struck the shaft with a sledge hammer. This caused a shard to break off & penetrate EE's skin on left leg right at the knee & traveled up resulting in contusion & Laceration to the soft tissue, this required 1-2 stitches & the doctor because of the non threatening position of the shard decided to not remove.