Mining Incidents

Felix Pit Metal/Non-Metal

American Aggregate · Surface
Controlled by Sharlotte A Rierson
Hagerman, NM., Chaves County, NM  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2901924

Felix Pit has $65K in proposed MSHA penalties and $47K outstanding across 3 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
1986–1988
Latest incident
Aug 1988
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
224
citations
40
significant & substantial
$65,437
proposed penalties
$18,543
paid to date
28% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $46,894 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
109
inspections on record
1,078
inspection hours
20.8
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.
224 citations across 1,078 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Felix Pit has $65K in proposed MSHA penalties and $47K outstanding across 3 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.
$65K
proposed penalties
$65K
current assessed
$19K
paid to date
$47K
outstanding
213 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-09-17.
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
2024 Q2 1,614 1 0 619.6
2024 Q1 1,090 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 4,309 5 0 1160.4
2023 Q3 3,318 3 1 904.2
2023 Q2 3,023 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 2,959 2 0 675.9
2022 Q4 2,518 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 2,455 0 0 0.0
Show 83 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2022 Q2 3,243 4 0 1233.4
2022 Q1 2,754 3 3 1089.3
2021 Q4 3,382 5 3 1478.4
2021 Q3 2,829 1 0 353.5
2021 Q2 2,785 12 3 4308.8
2021 Q1 2,255 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 2,900 8 0 2758.6
2020 Q3 2,769 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 2,522 4 0 1586.0
2020 Q1 2,255 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 2,449 7 1 2858.3
2019 Q3 2,439 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 2,410 5 1 2074.7
2019 Q1 2,087 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 2,108 6 1 2846.3
2018 Q3 2,236 2 0 894.5
2018 Q2 1,443 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 1,610 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 996 6 0 6024.1
2017 Q3 1,316 4 0 3039.5
2017 Q2 3,243 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 2,839 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 2,833 5 0 1764.9
2016 Q3 3,292 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 3,580 4 1 1117.3
2016 Q1 3,149 9 1 2858.1
2015 Q4 2,513 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 2,234 2 0 895.3
2015 Q2 2,098 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 1,586 2 0 1261.0
2014 Q4 1,888 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 1,349 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 2,668 7 3 2623.7
2014 Q1 2,162 3 1 1387.6
2013 Q4 1,944 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 1,745 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 2,767 2 0 722.8
2013 Q1 2,918 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 3,187 4 2 1255.1
2012 Q3 2,963 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 2,553 2 0 783.4
2012 Q1 2,096 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 2,089 6 2 2872.2
2011 Q3 1,655 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 1,735 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 1,421 5 2 3518.6
2010 Q4 1,472 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 1,046 6 2 5736.1
2010 Q2 2,069 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 2,046 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 1,336 2 1 1497.0
2008 Q3 1,483 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 2,120 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 1,910 5 1 2617.8
2007 Q4 2,044 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 1,676 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 1,761 5 0 2839.3
2007 Q1 1,437 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 985 14 3 14213.2
2006 Q2 1,210 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 1,735 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 1,650 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 1,814 2 0 1102.5
2005 Q2 1,709 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 1,590 9 3 5660.4
2004 Q2 1,769 8 0 4522.3
2004 Q1 1,872 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 2,090 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 3,036 2 0 658.8
2003 Q2 3,239 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 3,067 10 0 3260.5
2002 Q4 3,332 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 3,227 4 1 1239.5
2002 Q2 3,333 5 0 1500.2
2002 Q1 3,315 1 0 301.7
2001 Q4 3,033 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 3,465 1 1 288.6
2001 Q2 2,845 2 0 703.0
2001 Q1 3,095 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 2,904 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 2,675 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 2,392 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 2,683 14 3 5218.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

1988 · 2 incidents

August 24, 1988 NM · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer MACHINERY
Beavers Sand & Gravel Of Roswell Inc · Struck against a moving object

I.NAME WAS PUTTING A D-8 CAT ON A TAILER & IT SLIP OFF & GOT TURNED & TWISTED IN THE PROSERS HER HURT BACK & SHOULDERS

July 13, 1988 NM · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator MACHINERY
Beavers Sand & Gravel Of Roswell Inc · Struck against stationary object

ENOK WAS WIRJUBG IB CGAUB ABD GE KIST FIITAGE ABD SLIPPED INTO MACHINE AND CUT FINGER R INDEX O

1986 · 1 incident

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The full compliance file on Felix Pit

A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.