Mining Incidents

Mesquite Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Anabel Corona
Mesquite, Dona Ana County, NM  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 2902383

Mesquite Pit has $9K in proposed MSHA penalties and $8K 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 2008
39
citations
8
significant & substantial
$8,760
proposed penalties
$1,131
paid to date
13% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $7,629 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2008
27
inspections on record
335
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: 335 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Mesquite Pit has $9K in proposed MSHA penalties and $8K 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.
$9K
proposed penalties
$9K
current assessed
$1K
paid to date
$8K
outstanding
38 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-01-15.
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 880 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 249 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 130 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 148 1 0 6756.8
2024 Q4 148 7 0 47297.3
2024 Q3 149 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 195 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 123 0 0 0.0
Show 62 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 154 3 0 19480.5
2023 Q3 282 1 0 3546.1
2023 Q2 227 3 2 13215.9
2023 Q1 345 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 200 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 227 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 320 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 375 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 301 5 4 16611.3
2021 Q3 245 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 400 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 417 1 0 2398.1
2020 Q4 0 0 0
2020 Q3 350 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 213 1 0 4694.8
2020 Q1 381 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 437 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 409 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 405 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 359 2 0 5571.0
2018 Q4 388 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 357 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 421 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 382 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 387 5 0 12919.9
2017 Q3 412 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 472 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 454 1 0 2202.6
2016 Q4 371 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 361 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 244 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 213 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 265 2 0 7547.2
2015 Q3 315 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 474 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 360 2 0 5555.6
2014 Q4 386 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 386 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 459 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 465 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 290 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 286 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 378 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 289 1 0 3460.2
2012 Q4 251 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 259 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 241 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 180 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 133 1 0 7518.8
2011 Q3 166 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 227 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 172 1 1 5814.0
2010 Q4 301 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 208 1 1 4807.7
2010 Q2 293 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 199 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 166 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 409 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 249 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 182 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 135 1 0 7407.4
2008 Q3 78 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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