Mining Incidents

Hickory Creek Pit #1: 36 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Quality & Quantity Resources · Surface
Controlled by Tommy Sultemeier
Johnson City, Blanco County, TX  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4104274

Hickory Creek Pit #1 has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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 2001
36
citations
6
significant & substantial
$4,638
proposed penalties
$4,638
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
12
inspections on record
124
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: 124 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Hickory Creek Pit #1 has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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
$0
outstanding
36 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2021-09-02.
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.
16.7%
significant & substantial
19.4%
high negligence or reckless
16.7%
reasonably likely or greater
38.9%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 2.8% low, 77.8% moderate, 19.4% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. Quality & Quantity Resources 2001 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2022 1
2021 1
2020 1
2019 1
2018 1
2017 1
2016 1
2015 2
2003 1
2002 0
2001 1
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Hickory Creek Pit #1 sits in Blanco County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 0.4% 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.
Blanco County, Texas · Population 12,008
0.4%
Mining share of county employment
$87,564
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
2022 Q2 72 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 194 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 228 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 221 2 0 9049.8
2021 Q2 224 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 237 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 268 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 438 0 0 0.0
Show 30 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2020 Q2 210 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 197 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 328 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 298 2 0 6711.4
2019 Q2 316 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 264 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 286 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 220 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 225 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 305 2 0 6557.4
2017 Q4 357 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 314 3 0 9554.1
2017 Q2 450 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 275 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 320 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 405 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 400 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 850 22 6 25882.4
2015 Q4 750 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 840 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 65 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 100 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 75 3 0 40000.0
2002 Q4 0 0 0
2002 Q3 0 0 0
2002 Q2 0 0 0
2002 Q1 150 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 300 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 350 2 0 5714.3
2001 Q2 370 0 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.