Mining Incidents

Lucy Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Dustin James Pettingill
Encino, Torrance County, NM  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 2902475

Lucy Pit has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $906 outstanding across 1 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 2018
26
citations
4
significant & substantial
$3,569
proposed penalties
$2,663
paid to date
75% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $906 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2018
21
inspections on record
266
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: 266 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Lucy Pit has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $906 outstanding across 1 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
$3K
paid to date
$906
outstanding
23 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-05-12.
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 2,686 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 3,981 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 2,036 1 0 491.2
2025 Q1 1,923 1 0 520.0
2024 Q4 3,710 2 0 539.1
2024 Q3 4,086 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 3,477 3 0 862.8
2024 Q1 5,172 0 0 0.0
Show 25 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 3,142 4 0 1273.1
2023 Q3 3,489 2 1 573.2
2023 Q2 2,688 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 3,487 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 3,895 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 3,635 1 1 275.1
2022 Q2 2,365 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 2,148 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 3,756 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 5,634 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 4,677 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 3,235 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 4,330 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 2,999 1 1 333.4
2020 Q2 1,647 2 1 1214.3
2020 Q1 1,105 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 885 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,381 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 1,619 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 946 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 481 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 619 4 0 6462.0
2018 Q2 599 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 178 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 40 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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