Mining Incidents

La Calichera Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Oscar A Palacios
La Joya, Hidalgo County, TX  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4104648

La Calichera Pit has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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 2007
23
citations
5
significant & substantial
$4,495
proposed penalties
$4,495
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2007
17
inspections on record
138
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: 138 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

La Calichera Pit has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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.
$4K
proposed penalties
$4K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
22 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2011-05-24.
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
2011 Q2 609 2 1 3284.1
2011 Q1 1,752 1 0 570.8
2010 Q4 1,264 2 0 1582.3
2010 Q3 1,935 3 2 1550.4
2010 Q2 1,054 2 0 1897.5
2010 Q1 200 3 0 15000.0
2009 Q4 166 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 1,080 0 0 0.0
Show 10 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2009 Q2 1,444 5 1 3462.6
2009 Q1 1,254 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 889 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 1,581 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 1,625 1 0 615.4
2008 Q1 2,120 2 1 943.4
2007 Q4 3,203 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 2,844 2 0 703.2
2007 Q2 3,645 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 1,415 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 La Calichera 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.