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: 219 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
MEXIA PLANT has $12K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 4 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.
$12K
proposed penalties
$9K
current assessed
$9K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
49 assessments are final orders; 4 contested dockets.
Of $12K in penalties contested before the Commission, $7K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2003-08-11.
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.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Contested penalties
ⓘA reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.
Largest penalties this mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
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: 2002-10-31, 23 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
5
samples
2
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Respirable dust, <.1mg3
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (5)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2002-10-31
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.16
1.55
0.10
Crusher Oper/Worker
2002-10-31
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.12
10
0.01
Crusher Oper/Worker
2002-10-31
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2002-10-31
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2002-10-31
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
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.
MEXIA PLANT recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2003.
Injury rate, 2003
ⓘ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 3.76 and the all-US-mining average was 4.43 cases per 100 workers.
In Texas, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.88 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
2003 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2002 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2001 *
4.38
4.38
0.000
2000 *
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.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2004
8
2003
17
2002
19
2001
17
2000
19
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
MEXIA PLANT sits in Limestone County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 3.1% 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.
Limestone County, Texas · Population 22,185
3.1%
Mining share of county employment
$58,109
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
EE AND OTHER CHANGED PONTOON LOCATION TO PUMP WATER. WENT TO PONTOON IN BOAT-PUMP WAS RUNNING BUT NOT PUMPING WATER TURNED PUMP OFF STARTED REMOVING PLUG HAD WATER AND PRESSURE IN LINE BLEW WA TER AND MUD IN EE FACE. WATER WAS WARM.
TRYING TO SUPPORT A CATWALK AS IT WAS BEING CUT FROM AN EXISTING FRAME. THE WEIGHT OF THE CATWALK PULLED HIM FORWARD FROM A SQUATING POSITION CAUSING A CHIP IN THE BONE OF HIS LEFT ANKLE. THE INJURY REQUIRED X-RAYS.
1998 · 2 incidents
December 29, 1998TX · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorHANDLING OF MATERIALS
EE WAS TURNING V-BELT PULLEY BY HAND. HE GOT TIP END AND FINGER NAIL ON LITTLE FINGER OF RIGHT HAND, BETWEEN BELT AND PULLEY GROVE. CUT FINGER AND NAIL. HAD TO HAVE 5 STITCHES.
1997 · 2 incidents
December 24, 1997TX · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorHANDLING OF MATERIALS
EMPLOYEE CLIMBED UP ON CAT WALK AROUND SCREEN TOGET A PRY BAR. PLANT UNDER CONSTRUCTION, NOT ALL HAND RAILS ARE COMPLETE. EMPLOYEE GO PRY BAR-EEQUIPMENT SHIFTED AND HE FELL OFF OF CATWALK.
EMPLOYEE FEELS LIKE THE BUILDING WAS UNLEVEL, AND THAT SITTING FOR LONG PERIODS OF TIME IN HER CHAIR, CAUSED HER PAIN. EMPLOYEE HAS SEEN LOCAL DR. AND HIS TREATMENT HAS NOT HELPED. HE HAS REF ERRED HER TO ANOTHER DR. TO BE SEEN ON 4-18-94.
1993 · 6 incidents
November 8, 1993TX · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techHANDLING OF MATERIALS
EE WAS REMOVING BOLTS FROM TUBE ON HYDRAULIC CYLINDER ON ROCKBREAKER. CYLINDER WAS APPROX. WAIST HIGH. EE WAS STANDING UP AND TO THE RIGHT SIDE OF CYLINDER. HYDRAULIC OIL WAS UNDER PRESSURE HI T EE IN THE FACE AROUND THE NOSE AND EYES, OIL WAS NOT HOT. EE WAS WEARING GLASSES. EE HAD TO HAVE SURGERY ON RIGHT EYE TO REMOVE STEEL.
EMPLOYEE CALLED IN SICK WITH EXTREME BACK PAIN. THEN WENT TO DOCTOR WHERE HE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH A HERNIATED DISK.
January 27, 1993TX · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techSTEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT
EMPLOYEE WAS TIGHTING BOLT ON HYDRAULIC LINE WHEN HE SAID HE PULLED A MUSCLE IN HIS LEFT SHOULDER
1991 · 3 incidents
December 2, 1991TX · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techHANDLING OF MATERIALS
MATERIAL WAS BUILT UP ON SIDE OF FEEDER. EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING FEEDER WHEN A ROCK ABOUT THE SIZE OF HIS HARD HAT ROLLED ACROSS HIS FOOT FROM SIDE OF FEEDER.
February 16, 1990TX · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorHANDLING OF MATERIALS
EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON CONVEYOR #21 EMPLOYEE BENT OVER & HIS HARD HAT CAME OFF WHEN HE REACHED DOWN TO PICK UP HIS HARD HAT HE HIT HIS HEAD ON CATWALK OF YELLOW 6X16 AC SCREEN EMPLOYEE HAD T O HAVE SUTURES
1988 · 3 incidents
December 27, 1988TX · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
EMPLOYEE WAS ON LOADER ON STOCKPILE. PLANT WAS STARTTED AND THERE WAS A LITTLE MATERIAL AND DUST ON STACKER FROM THE NIGHT BEFOR. WIND WAS BLOWING AND SOME DUST WNET INTO LEFT EYE.
EMPLOYEE WAS PUTTING NEW PINS AND TIPS ON LOADER BUCKET, HEAD CAME OFF OF HAMMER HANDLE AND HIT THUMB ON LEFT HAND.
1986 · 2 incidents
April 28, 1986TX · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techHANDLING OF MATERIALS