Mining Incidents

HILLTOP MINE Metal/Non-Metal

Shady Point, Le Flore County, OK  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3401903

HILLTOP MINE has $7K in proposed MSHA penalties and $2K outstanding across 3 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 2005
54
citations
20
significant & substantial
$7,484
proposed penalties
$5,672
paid to date
76% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,812 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2005
41
inspections on record
501
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: 501 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

HILLTOP MINE has $7K in proposed MSHA penalties and $2K 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.
$7K
proposed penalties
$7K
current assessed
$6K
paid to date
$2K
outstanding
51 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-12-30.
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
2025 Q4 1,205 7 0 5809.1
2025 Q3 647 3 2 4636.8
2025 Q2 1,209 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 1,488 4 1 2688.2
2024 Q4 1,773 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 1,683 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 4,514 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 3,465 2 0 577.2
Show 82 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 5,525 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 3,549 1 1 281.8
2023 Q2 3,579 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 4,205 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 2,675 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 4,188 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 4,995 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 5,387 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 4,412 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 3,373 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 2,310 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 2,484 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 2,567 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 2,080 1 0 480.8
2020 Q2 1,452 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 1,842 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 934 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,392 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 933 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 2,770 2 1 722.0
2018 Q4 2,658 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 2,828 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 3,221 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 1,981 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 3,135 3 2 956.9
2017 Q3 4,113 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 3,976 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 3,412 1 0 293.1
2016 Q4 3,732 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 4,183 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 3,902 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 313 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 2,633 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 2,895 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 2,000 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 550 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 3,062 1 0 326.6
2014 Q3 5,729 2 1 349.1
2014 Q2 5,838 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 5,639 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 6,253 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 3,222 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 746 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 1,836 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 4,859 1 1 205.8
2012 Q3 2,511 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 2,691 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 3,003 1 1 333.0
2011 Q4 497 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 579 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 632 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 453 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 511 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 644 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 659 4 1 6069.8
2010 Q1 366 4 0 10929.0
2009 Q4 385 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 568 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 576 2 1 3472.2
2009 Q1 540 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 572 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 701 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 775 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 589 4 2 6791.2
2007 Q4 646 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 723 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 680 4 2 5882.4
2007 Q1 593 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 751 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 777 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 761 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 787 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 728 3 3 4120.9
2005 Q3 804 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 679 3 0 4418.3
2005 Q1 508 1 1 1968.5
2004 Q4 351 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 512 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 534 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 334 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 0 0 0
2002 Q4 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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