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Mitchell Pit: 52 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

BC Materials, LLC · Surface
Controlled by John Miller; Wade Miller
Marlin, Falls County, TX  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4104772

Mitchell Pit has $8K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2021
Latest incident
Nov 2021
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2009
52
citations
10
significant & substantial
$7,811
proposed penalties
$7,811
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See BC Materials, LLC's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2009
43
inspections on record
717
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: 717 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Mitchell Pit has $8K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 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.
$8K
proposed penalties
$8K
current assessed
$8K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
52 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
Of $233 in penalties contested before the Commission, $233 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-04-29.
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.
19.2%
significant & substantial
5.8%
high negligence or reckless
19.2%
reasonably likely or greater
34.6%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 23.1% low, 71.2% moderate, 5.8% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
When citations were contested
ⓘ Contesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
2 citations taken to the federal commission · 4% of citations on record
  • Settled 2 · 100%
100%
S&S designation survived the contest
ⓘ Counts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.
of 1 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
0%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$233 proposed, $233 after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2022-12-04.
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.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
CENT 2023-0042 Settlement Sullivan 2023 $133 → $133
CENT 2013-390M Settlement Lesnick 2013 $100 → $100
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.
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: 2025-09-23
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
25
samples
4
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg18
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz5
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz2
Show the individual readings (25)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2025-09-23 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2025-09-23 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.33 1.06 0.31 Crusher Oper/Worker
2022-09-07 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2022-09-07 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2022-09-07 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bobcat Operator
2021-04-06 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2021-04-06 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2021-04-06 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2021-04-06 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2019-05-16 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bulldozer Operator
2019-05-16 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.16 Utility Man
2018-05-23 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2018-05-23 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.18 Utility Man
2014-10-29 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2014-10-29 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2014-10-29 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.34 0.79 0.43 Mechanic
2012-05-23 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2012-05-23 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
2012-05-23 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2012-05-23 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2010-01-13 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.28 Mechanic
2010-01-13 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Washer Operator
2010-01-13 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2009-07-28 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.35 1.13 0.31 Mechanic
2009-07-28 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.36 1.36 0.26 Crusher Oper/Worker
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.

Mitchell Pit recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2025.

Injury rate, 2025
ⓘ 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 1.65 and the all-US-mining average was 1.97 cases per 100 workers.
In Texas, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.17 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
2025 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2024 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2023 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2022 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2021 * 4.78 4.78 0.000
2020 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2019 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2018 * 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.
Ownership history
  1. BC Materials, LLC 2009 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 18
2025 18
2024 18
2023 16
2022 18
2021 17
2020 21
2019 14
2018 18
2017 11
2016 11
2015 11
2014 14
2013 13
2012 12
2011 11
2010 16
2009 12
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Mitchell Pit sits in Falls County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 0.1% 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.
Falls County, Texas · Population 17,063
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$55,372
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
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2026 Q2 12,197 2 0 164.0
2026 Q1 12,336 4 0 324.3
2025 Q4 12,481 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 10,802 1 1 92.6
2025 Q2 12,332 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 11,283 2 0 177.3
2024 Q4 13,393 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 13,687 0 0 0.0
Show 62 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 12,912 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 12,415 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 11,043 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 11,716 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 12,296 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 11,855 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 12,275 1 1 81.5
2022 Q3 12,906 2 0 155.0
2022 Q2 10,813 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 10,331 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 10,400 1 0 96.2
2021 Q3 10,461 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 11,311 1 0 88.4
2021 Q1 9,685 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 9,930 2 0 201.4
2020 Q3 12,060 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 11,941 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 8,094 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 7,175 1 0 139.4
2019 Q3 6,858 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 7,565 1 0 132.2
2019 Q1 5,782 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 7,073 1 0 141.4
2018 Q3 8,675 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 7,713 1 0 129.7
2018 Q1 7,129 3 2 420.8
2017 Q4 6,804 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 6,654 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 7,535 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 7,377 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 7,183 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 7,883 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 7,743 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 2,735 1 0 365.6
2015 Q4 7,779 2 0 257.1
2015 Q3 6,510 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 7,765 1 0 128.8
2015 Q1 7,690 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 8,314 2 0 240.6
2014 Q3 9,502 2 1 210.5
2014 Q2 9,119 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 10,133 1 0 98.7
2013 Q4 10,793 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 8,974 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 9,563 1 0 104.6
2013 Q1 9,335 2 1 214.2
2012 Q4 7,535 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 8,188 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 8,508 1 0 117.5
2012 Q1 7,276 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 6,520 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 9,618 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 8,059 3 0 372.3
2011 Q1 6,337 5 3 789.0
2010 Q4 8,409 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 9,415 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 9,801 4 1 408.1
2010 Q1 14,153 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 11,246 2 0 177.8
2009 Q3 9,285 2 0 215.4
2009 Q2 9,171 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 7,576 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2021 · 1 incident

November 1, 2021 TX · Metal/Non-Metal scoop tram operator, load/haul/dump operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
BC Materials, LLC · Absorption of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

Employee was pouring concrete and got some in EE's boot, untimely causing chemical burn and abrasion. Employee did not report until 11-05-21. Employee went to the doctor and was ultimately released to full duty on 12-07-21