Mining Incidents

Knight Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Jose Rosario Valle
Florence, Williamson County, TX  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4104419

Knight Pit has $10K in proposed MSHA penalties and $7K 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 2003
44
citations
11
significant & substantial
$9,706
proposed penalties
$2,485
paid to date
26% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $7,221 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2003
17
inspections on record
286
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: 286 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Knight Pit has $10K in proposed MSHA penalties and $7K 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.
$10K
proposed penalties
$10K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$7K
outstanding
40 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2008-05-05.
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
2008 Q1 4,860 7 3 1440.3
2007 Q4 4,680 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 6,376 5 2 784.2
2007 Q2 4,247 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 5,176 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 4,828 5 1 1035.6
2006 Q3 4,810 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 4,596 1 1 217.6
Show 12 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2006 Q1 4,092 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 4,478 1 1 223.3
2005 Q3 4,820 1 0 207.5
2005 Q2 4,497 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 680 3 0 4411.8
2004 Q4 3,180 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 3,136 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 2,888 5 2 1731.3
2004 Q1 2,771 11 1 3969.7
2003 Q4 3,241 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 2,947 2 0 678.7
2003 Q2 2,678 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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