Mining Incidents

FT 4250: 25 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Cowboy Construction · Surface
Controlled by Richard Guy Newell
Big Spring, Howard County, TX  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 4105259

FT 4250 has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $151 outstanding across 0 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 2017
25
citations
5
significant & substantial
$4,948
proposed penalties
$4,797
paid to date
97% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $151 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2017
12
inspections on record
74
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: 74 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

FT 4250 has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $151 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.
$5K
proposed penalties
$5K
current assessed
$5K
paid to date
$151
outstanding
25 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-04-20.
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.
20.0%
significant & substantial
8.0%
high negligence or reckless
20.0%
reasonably likely or greater
36.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 4.0% low, 88.0% moderate, 8.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. Cowboy Construction 2017 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2025 2
2024 5
2023 5
2022 5
2018 6
2017 5
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

FT 4250 sits in Howard County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 11.7% 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.
Howard County, Texas · Population 33,127
11.7%
Mining share of county employment
$71,457
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
2025 Q3 0 0 0
2025 Q2 2,259 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 1,363 10 4 7336.8
2024 Q4 2,376 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 1,344 7 0 5208.3
2024 Q2 1,999 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 1,245 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 580 0 0 0.0
Show 14 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q3 2,367 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 2,073 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 2,152 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 1,961 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,787 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,343 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 2,222 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 505 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,064 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 398 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 23 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 815 2 0 2454.0
2017 Q3 825 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 1,165 5 1 4291.8

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.