Mining Incidents

Hobbs Potash Facility Refinery Metal/Non-Metal

Kerr-Mc Gee Oil Industries Inc · Facility
Controlled by Kerr-McGee Corp
Eddy County, NM  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2900801

MSHA record for Hobbs Potash Facility Refinery (mine ID 2900801). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Ownership history
  1. Kerr-Mc Gee Oil Industries Inc 1950 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Hobbs Potash Facility Refinery sits in Eddy County, New Mexico, where the Census mining category is 15.0% 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.
Eddy County, New Mexico · Population 61,114
15.0%
Mining share of county employment
$79,605
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.

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.