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: 63 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
GIBBS PIT has $517 in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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.
$517
proposed penalties
$330
current assessed
$330
paid to date
$0
outstanding
6 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $297 in penalties contested before the Commission, $110 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2001-11-08.
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.
Contested penalties
ⓘA reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.
Largest penalties this mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
GIBBS PIT recorded 19.75 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2002.
Injury rate, 2002
ⓘ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.
19.75
total case rate
13.17
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 4.17 and the all-US-mining average was 5.05 cases per 100 workers.
In Texas, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 3.17 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
2002 *
19.75
13.17
0.000
2001 *
5.26
5.26
0.000
2000 *
5.34
5.34
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
2003
5
2002
15
2001
17
2000
16
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
GIBBS PIT sits in Bell County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 0.7% 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.
Bell County, Texas · Population 379,811
0.7%
Mining share of county employment
$66,051
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
2003 Q3
0
0
0
2003 Q2
940
0
0
0.0
2003 Q1
3,742
0
0
0.0
2002 Q4
7,101
0
0
0.0
2002 Q3
7,234
0
0
0.0
2002 Q2
7,530
0
0
0.0
2002 Q1
8,507
0
0
0.0
2001 Q4
9,952
3
0
301.4
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2001 Q3
8,717
0
0
0.0
2001 Q2
10,705
0
0
0.0
2001 Q1
8,656
1
0
115.5
2000 Q4
9,254
0
0
0.0
2000 Q3
10,841
0
0
0.0
2000 Q2
8,893
0
0
0.0
2000 Q1
8,484
2
0
235.7
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
9 on file
2002 · 3 incidents
December 19, 2002TX · Metal/Non-Metalcoal/ore shovel operator, shoveler, power shovelerHANDLING OF MATERIALS
LENF HAND ON BACK HOE TO BRACE HIMSELF AS HE LOOKED UNDER THE BACK HOE - HAND SLIPPED AND SLID ACROSS THE EDGE OF A PIECE OF METAL ON THE BACK HOE - SHORT DEEP CUT ON SIDE OF LEFT THUMB - REQU IRED 4 STITCHES - RETURNED TO WORK SAME DAY, NO RESTRICTONS - WAS NOT WEARING HIS GLOVES.
February 14, 2002TX · Metal/Non-Metalfront-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operatorSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
EE BROUGHT 2"X 6" BOARD TO THE CRUSHER TO REPLACE ONE THAT WAS BROKEN. HE LAID THE BOARD DOWN,TOHELP CO-WORKER ON THE IMPACT, HE WAS GOING TO MOVE AROUND TO THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF IMPACT AND STE PPED BACKWARD A FEW STEPS AND STEPPED OFF OF AN ELEVATED AREA. (ABOUT 1') ON TO THE EDGE OF THE BOARD EDGE, ROLLING HIS ANKLE IN THE PROCESS. NOTHING WAS BROKEN ONLY SPRAINED.
January 17, 2002TX · Metal/Non-Metalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerMACHINERY
TRAVELING TOO FAST DOWN AN INCLINE, HE TRIED TO SLOW DOWN BY APPLYING LEFT BRAKE. HE APPLIED TOOHARD AND THE ENGINE WAS NEUTRALIZED. STEERING BECAME DIFFICULT AND HE LOST CONTROL, SIDE-SWIPED A PICKUP, RAN UP A BERM AND TURNED ON IT'S SIDE.HE RECEIVED MINOR CUTS AND SCRAPES ON LEFT LEG. THE ROCK BREAKER IS REPAIRABLE.
EE WAS GETTING OUT OF A R-22 UCLID WHEN HE STEPPED OUT HE HURT HIS FOOT. THIS WAS A THURSDAY ANDHE DID NOT SAY NOTHING TO ME UNTIL FRIDAY WHEN HE TOLD ME HE JUST SPRANGED HIS FOOT, IT WOULD BE O.K. HE CAME TO WORK SATURDAY MORNING AND THE DOCTOR HE WENT AND SEEN SAID NO WORK UNTIL AFTER A CHECK UP APPOINTMENT.
2000 · 1 incident
October 16, 2000TX · Metal/Non-Metalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerHANDLING OF MATERIALS
ON RETRACTABLE LADDER. STEPPED ON LOADER WITH LEFT FOOT AND SHIFTED WEIGHT TO LEFT SIDE. LADDER CLOSED CATCHING RIGHT FOOT BETWEEN LADDER AND LOADER. PINCHED & SPRAINED FOOT(RIGHT).
1999 · 2 incidents
April 6, 1999TX · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanHANDLING OF MATERIALS
EE STEPPING DOWN FROM CRANE DECK HIS FOOT SLIPPED CAUSING HIM TO FALL AND STRIKE HIS HEAD ON THE OUTRIGGER, CUTTING HIS SCALP. FIVE STITCHES REQUIRED TO CLOSE THE WOUND
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