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Lefors Mine Metal/Non-Metal

Nick Thomas, Inc. · Surface

Controlled by Nicky R Thomas Sr.

Gray, Gray County, TX  ·  Abandoned

MSHA Mine ID: 4104076

Lefors Mine has $37K in proposed MSHA penalties and $23K outstanding across 3 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities

0

Total incidents

1

Years on record

2011

Latest incident

Jun 2011

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2000

109

citations

46

significant & substantial

$37,200

proposed penalties

$11,700

paid to date

31% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $25,500 gap.

Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.

Inspection activity

MSHA inspections since 2000

56

inspections on record

687

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: 687 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.

Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Lefors Mine has $37K in proposed MSHA penalties and $23K outstanding across 3 contested dockets.

Penalty disposition

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Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.

$37K

proposed penalties

$35K

current assessed

$12K

paid to date

$23K

outstanding

109 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.

As of the most recent assessment on 2022-03-09.

Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

Quarterly safety rates

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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
2024 Q2	20	0	0	0.0
2024 Q1	90	0	0	0.0
2023 Q4	30	0	0	0.0
2023 Q3	160	0	0	0.0
2023 Q2	340	0	0	0.0
2023 Q1	0	0	0
2022 Q4	0	0	0
2022 Q3	0	0	0

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Quarter	Hours worked	Citations	S&S	Per 1M hrs
2022 Q2	581	0	0	0.0
2022 Q1	1,711	2	0	1168.9
2021 Q4	1,651	0	0	0.0
2021 Q3	2,343	1	1	426.8
2021 Q2	1,771	0	0	0.0
2021 Q1	1,721	2	0	1162.1
2020 Q4	1,499	0	0	0.0
2020 Q3	2,293	8	3	3488.9
2020 Q2	2,091	0	0	0.0
2020 Q1	2,008	2	2	996.0
2019 Q4	1,521	0	0	0.0
2019 Q3	1,092	0	0	0.0
2019 Q2	1,634	0	0	0.0
2019 Q1	2,268	0	0	0.0
2018 Q4	2,133	2	0	937.6
2018 Q3	1,419	0	0	0.0
2018 Q2	1,442	2	0	1387.0
2018 Q1	1,756	1	1	569.5
2017 Q4	2,728	0	0	0.0
2017 Q3	1,366	0	0	0.0
2017 Q2	1,733	1	0	577.0
2017 Q1	1,345	1	0	743.5
2016 Q4	1,562	0	0	0.0
2016 Q3	447	0	0	0.0
2016 Q2	666	0	0	0.0
2016 Q1	1,350	9	3	6666.7
2015 Q4	650	0	0	0.0
2015 Q3	585	0	0	0.0
2015 Q2	600	3	3	5000.0
2015 Q1	1,402	4	4	2853.1
2014 Q4	6,990	0	0	0.0
2014 Q3	10,498	6	4	571.5
2014 Q2	10,122	1	0	98.8
2014 Q1	10,110	2	1	197.8
2013 Q4	6,636	0	0	0.0
2013 Q3	4,192	3	1	715.6
2013 Q2	3,559	0	0	0.0
2013 Q1	2,563	1	0	390.2
2012 Q4	2,068	0	0	0.0
2012 Q3	2,840	3	1	1056.3
2012 Q2	2,809	0	0	0.0
2012 Q1	4,076	3	2	736.0
2011 Q4	3,602	4	1	1110.5
2011 Q3	2,893	0	0	0.0
2011 Q2	1,794	0	0	0.0
2011 Q1	1,833	0	0	0.0
2010 Q4	2,640	0	0	0.0
2010 Q3	1,678	2	2	1191.9
2010 Q2	1,153	5	0	4336.5
2010 Q1	1,244	0	0	0.0
2009 Q4	564	0	0	0.0
2009 Q3	2,444	0	0	0.0
2009 Q2	2,359	0	0	0.0
2009 Q1	3,401	4	0	1176.1
2008 Q4	3,136	0	0	0.0
2008 Q3	2,268	8	1	3527.3
2006 Q3	0	0	0
2006 Q2	0	0	0
2006 Q1	0	0	0
2005 Q4	0	0	0
2005 Q2	392	0	0	0.0
2005 Q1	999	0	0	0.0
2004 Q4	657	0	0	0.0
2004 Q3	664	0	0	0.0
2004 Q2	1,658	1	0	603.1
2001 Q2	0	0	0
2001 Q1	0	0	0
2000 Q3	2,072	0	0	0.0

No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2011 · 1 incident

June 7, 2011 TX · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer MACHINERY

WTL LLC · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Working on 450 excavator replacing bucket pin and was struck by the boom.

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