Mining Incidents

Los Cordovas Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Michael A Silva
RANCHOS DE TAOS, Taos County, NM  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 2902088

Los Cordovas 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 2002
19
citations
8
significant & substantial
$3,697
proposed penalties
$3,697
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
22
inspections on record
200
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: 200 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Los Cordovas 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
19 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-10-30.
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 15 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 26 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 165 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 86 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 47 5 2 106383.0
2024 Q3 20 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
Show 86 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2022 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 30 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 30 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 30 2 1 66666.7
2011 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 11 3 2 272727.3
2010 Q2 9 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 18 1 0 55555.6
2009 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 0 0 0
2008 Q3 0 0 0
2008 Q2 0 0 0
2008 Q1 0 0 0
2007 Q4 0 0 0
2007 Q3 0 0 0
2007 Q2 18 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 34 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 0 0 0
2006 Q3 0 0 0
2006 Q2 0 0 0
2006 Q1 18 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 9 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 10 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 19 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 20 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 0 0 0
2004 Q3 0 2 1
2004 Q2 32 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 16 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 16 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 24 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 19 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 16 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 14 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 16 2 0 125000.0
2002 Q2 19 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 16 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 0 0 0
2001 Q3 16 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 0 0 0
2001 Q1 0 0 0
2000 Q4 0 0 0
2000 Q3 0 0 0
2000 Q2 0 0 0
2000 Q1 27 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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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.