Mining Incidents

Lubbock County IRock Crusher Metal/Non-Metal

Lubbock County · Surface
Controlled by Lubbock County-TX
Smyer, Hockley County, TX  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4105575

Lubbock County IRock Crusher has $2K 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
2
Years on record
2022–2023
Latest incident
Mar 2023
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2021
11
citations
0
significant & substantial
$1,548
proposed penalties
$1,548
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2021
13
inspections on record
131
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: 131 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Lubbock County IRock Crusher has $2K 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.
$2K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
11 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-12-03.
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 2,191 1 0 456.4
2025 Q3 1,976 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 1,897 2 0 1054.3
2025 Q1 1,711 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 751 1 0 1331.6
2024 Q3 1,242 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 1,698 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 1,323 0 0 0.0
Show 10 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 1,885 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 1,669 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 874 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 1,249 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 26 1 0 38461.5
2022 Q3 212 1 0 4717.0
2022 Q2 402 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 852 1 0 1173.7
2021 Q4 469 3 0 6396.6
2021 Q3 368 1 0 2717.4
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2023 · 1 incident

March 15, 2023 TX · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Lubbock County · Struck against a moving object

While moving forward, the operator dropped the bucket of the loader causing it to dig into the ground stopping the machine immediately. This caused the operator to hit the front windshield with their head cracking it. Due to having this incident, the operator is required to conduct a post-incident drug test and be seen medically, however the operator refused.

2022 · 1 incident

January 19, 2022 TX · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Lubbock County · Fall onto or against objects

On 01/19/2022, EE was removing a plate under the crusher to clean it out due to crusher backing up with material. After removing all the bolts, the plate spilled open with material hitting EE in the chest. With the force of the material coming out of the crusher EE fell backwards landing against the wall of the clean out hole on EE's right arm and shoulder.

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