Mining Incidents

JOINER PIT Metal/Non-Metal

Big Lake, Reagan County, TX  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4105075

JOINER PIT has $21K in proposed MSHA penalties and $6K 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 2015
80
citations
22
significant & substantial
$21,276
proposed penalties
$15,692
paid to date
74% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $5,584 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2015
17
inspections on record
277
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: 277 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

JOINER PIT has $21K in proposed MSHA penalties and $6K 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.
$21K
proposed penalties
$21K
current assessed
$16K
paid to date
$6K
outstanding
80 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-03-24.
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 2,902 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 3,172 6 2 1891.6
2025 Q2 3,029 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 2,032 3 1 1476.4
2024 Q4 2,573 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 2,729 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 3,130 10 1 3194.9
2024 Q1 2,255 1 0 443.5
Show 30 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 3,568 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 2,739 19 6 6936.8
2023 Q2 2,722 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 3,533 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 3,155 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 3,057 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 3,154 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 3,249 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 3,922 7 2 1784.8
2021 Q3 2,501 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 3,600 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 4,249 9 3 2118.1
2020 Q4 3,122 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 2,653 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 2,938 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 2,722 5 1 1836.9
2019 Q4 2,484 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,938 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 2,147 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 2,076 8 2 3853.6
2018 Q4 1,788 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,613 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 1,499 5 4 3335.6
2015 Q4 0 0 0
2015 Q3 1,382 2 0 1447.2
2015 Q2 1,664 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 1,200 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 1,557 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 870 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 1,466 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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