Mining Incidents

Higareda's Rock Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Higareda's Rock Pit · Surface
Controlled by Arturo Higareda
El Paso, El Paso County, TX  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4104598

Higareda's Rock Pit has $47K in proposed MSHA penalties and $46K 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 2006
108
citations
29
significant & substantial
$46,816
proposed penalties
$763
paid to date
2% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $46,053 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2006
39
inspections on record
406
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: 406 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Higareda's Rock Pit has $47K in proposed MSHA penalties and $46K 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.
$47K
proposed penalties
$47K
current assessed
$763
paid to date
$46K
outstanding
93 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2012-03-14.
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
2012 Q2 2,240 1 0 446.4
2011 Q4 1,680 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 1,580 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 1,080 4 3 3703.7
2011 Q1 1,080 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 500 12 4 24000.0
2010 Q3 1,525 6 4 3934.4
2010 Q2 1,570 0 0 0.0
Show 7 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2010 Q1 1,530 2 0 1307.2
2009 Q3 1,460 1 0 684.9
2009 Q1 1,460 7 1 4794.5
2008 Q4 820 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 1,480 7 0 4729.7
2007 Q2 2,400 4 0 1666.7
2007 Q1 2,400 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.

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The full compliance file on Higareda's Rock 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.