Mining Incidents

Lordsburg Aggregate Production Facility: 89 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

RailRock LLC · Surface
Controlled by James A Canger
Lordsburg, Hidalgo County, NM  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2902263

Lordsburg Aggregate Production Facility has $44K in proposed MSHA penalties and $26K outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
2006–2009
Latest incident
Jul 2009
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2005
89
citations
28
significant & substantial
$43,613
proposed penalties
$18,033
paid to date
41% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $25,580 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2005
29
inspections on record
519
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: 519 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Lordsburg Aggregate Production Facility has $44K in proposed MSHA penalties and $26K 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.
$44K
proposed penalties
$44K
current assessed
$18K
paid to date
$26K
outstanding
86 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2011-04-05.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
32.6%
significant & substantial
4.7%
high negligence or reckless
32.6%
reasonably likely or greater
52.3%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 12.8% low, 82.6% moderate, 4.7% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Health sampling
A sample is a point in time compliance measurement, not an individual exposure history. These figures describe MSHA sampling records and do not establish causation or personal dose.

Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
Many samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.

Last sampled: 2010-11-17, 15 years ago
10%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
16
samples
10
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz101 over
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg4
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz2
Show the individual readings (16)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2007-04-25 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.97 0.94 1.03 Drill Operator, Rotary Air
2010-11-17 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 2 2.99 0.67 Laborer, Bullgang
2010-11-17 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.59 2.74 0.22 Crusher Oper/Worker
2008-01-30 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.45 1.72 0.26 Front-end Loader Operator
2008-01-30 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2008-01-30 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.45 2.56 0.18 Crusher Oper/Worker
2008-01-30 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.13 Front-end Loader Operator
2007-04-25 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 1.04 1.25 0.83 Laborer, Bullgang
2006-04-19 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 1.08 2.02 0.53 Crusher Oper/Worker
2006-04-19 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.17 Truck Driver
2006-04-19 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.3 1.23 0.24 Shovel Operator
2006-04-19 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2005-02-09 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2005-02-09 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.39 1.25 0.31 Laborer, Bullgang
2005-02-09 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Drill Operator, Rotary
2005-02-09 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.43 2.33 0.18 Crusher Oper/Worker
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly. Metal/nonmetal contaminant figures come from MSHA's Personal Health Samples and Area Samples files (public record), updated weekly.

Lordsburg Aggregate Production Facility recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2009.

Injury rate, 2009
This rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 2.82 and the all-US-mining average was 3.36 cases per 100 workers.
In New Mexico, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.62 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2009 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2008 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2007 * 5.38 5.38 0.000
2006 * 4.43 0.00 0.000
2005 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Ownership history
  1. RailRock LLC 2004 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2011 0
2010 16
2009 16
2008 19
2007 21
2006 20
2005 14
2004 13
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Lordsburg Aggregate Production Facility sits in Hidalgo County, New Mexico, where the Census mining category is 7.1% 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.
Hidalgo County, New Mexico · Population 4,097
7.1%
Mining share of county employment
$49,076
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
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 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q3 5,510 9 4 1633.4
2010 Q2 6,516 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 7,373 10 1 1356.3
2009 Q4 9,497 1 0 105.3
2009 Q3 5,724 14 9 2445.8
2009 Q2 5,272 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 5,136 0 0 0.0
Show 18 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2008 Q4 3,913 12 4 3066.7
2008 Q3 5,475 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 11,180 10 3 894.5
2008 Q1 10,447 3 0 287.2
2007 Q4 11,266 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 10,111 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 9,454 4 0 423.1
2007 Q1 6,353 2 0 314.8
2006 Q4 10,609 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 13,005 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 11,765 10 4 850.0
2006 Q1 9,730 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 6,823 5 0 732.8
2005 Q3 8,766 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 5,663 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 4,138 2 0 483.3
2004 Q4 5,636 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 3,755 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

2009 · 1 incident

July 15, 2009 NM · Metal/Non-Metal FIRE
RailRock LLC · Accident type, without injuries

Fuel truck began leaking fuel from the hose. The truck caught fire and burst into flames destroying the fuel truck. On August 19,2009 the insurance co. told the owner they would pay $36,000.00

2007 · 1 incident

November 8, 2007 NM · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT
RailRock LLC · Struck against stationary object

EE got off of truck to start drill, took a couple of steps and stepped akwardly on a rock and twisted knee.

2006 · 1 incident

April 4, 2006 NM · Metal/Non-Metal outside foreman, leadman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
RailRock LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

The injured person was removing a set of rollers from a conveyor when the rollers dropped and pinned his index finger against some angle iron. Cut and slight bruising to right index finger.