Moorhead Wet Plant has $18K 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
8
Years on record
2015–2025
Latest incident
Apr 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2015
65
citations
14
significant & substantial
$18,312
proposed penalties
$10,001
paid to date
55% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $8,311 gap.
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: 397 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Moorhead Wet Plant has $18K 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.
$18K
proposed penalties
$18K
current assessed
$10K
paid to date
$8K
outstanding
63 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-01-14.
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.
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: 2026-03-31
6
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Respirable dust, <.1mg5
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (6)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2026-03-31
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.15
Front-end Loader Operator
2026-03-31
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2024-09-18
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2024-09-18
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2020-10-15
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2020-10-15
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
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.
Moorhead Wet Plant recorded 2.28 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.
2.28
total case rate
2.28
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above 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 *
2.28
2.28
0.000
2024 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2023 *
4.83
0.00
0.000
2022 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2021 *
2.05
0.00
0.000
2020
0.00
0.00
0.000
2019
1.87
1.87
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.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2026
20
2025
28
2024
25
2023
31
2022
26
2021
36
2020
40
2019
38
2018
35
2017
32
2016
30
2015
18
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Moorhead Wet Plant sits in Montgomery County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 3.8% 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.
Montgomery County, Texas · Population 654,722
3.8%
Mining share of county employment
$97,266
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
15,529
0
0
0.0
2026 Q1
17,757
7
1
394.2
2025 Q4
23,682
0
0
0.0
2025 Q3
22,807
4
1
175.4
2025 Q2
22,137
0
0
0.0
2025 Q1
19,109
3
1
157.0
2024 Q4
16,236
0
0
0.0
2024 Q3
14,814
4
1
270.0
Show 36 earlier quartersHide earlier quarters
Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2
13,859
0
0
0.0
2024 Q1
16,510
2
0
121.1
2023 Q4
20,063
0
0
0.0
2023 Q3
19,928
4
0
200.7
2023 Q2
21,394
0
0
0.0
2023 Q1
21,485
1
0
46.5
2022 Q4
20,990
0
0
0.0
2022 Q3
23,679
0
0
0.0
2022 Q2
19,679
3
0
152.4
2022 Q1
18,960
0
0
0.0
2021 Q4
23,977
2
0
83.4
2021 Q3
22,772
1
0
43.9
2021 Q2
26,453
3
1
113.4
2021 Q1
24,495
0
0
0.0
2020 Q4
27,176
1
0
36.8
2020 Q3
24,385
0
0
0.0
2020 Q2
32,770
1
1
30.5
2020 Q1
26,724
2
1
74.8
2019 Q4
29,632
0
0
0.0
2019 Q3
23,709
0
0
0.0
2019 Q2
34,613
2
1
57.8
2019 Q1
18,942
5
1
264.0
2018 Q4
36,025
0
0
0.0
2018 Q3
34,301
3
1
87.5
2018 Q2
28,814
0
0
0.0
2018 Q1
27,137
0
0
0.0
2017 Q4
26,853
3
0
111.7
2017 Q3
26,741
3
0
112.2
2017 Q2
30,191
0
0
0.0
2017 Q1
24,270
0
0
0.0
2016 Q4
26,521
2
0
75.4
2016 Q3
38,533
2
1
51.9
2016 Q2
21,087
0
0
0.0
2016 Q1
16,832
2
0
118.8
2015 Q4
15,846
0
0
0.0
2015 Q3
14,005
1
0
71.4
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
8 on file
2025 · 1 incident
April 26, 2025TX · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanHANDLING OF MATERIALS
Employee was attaching a hose to a portable water pump used for drainage. They pinched right pinky with the hoses attachment cam-lock while locking in the hose. Bruising only.
2023 · 2 incidents
September 20, 2023TX · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Employee was installing a new track retainer pin on a CAT 349 Excavator. When hitting the pin with a sledgehammer a piece of the pin broke off and impacted the employees leg. This left a puncture wound on the employee right thigh.
February 14, 2023TX · Metal/Non-Metalhaul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driverSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Employee was working on CAT Excavator tracks attempting to reinsert a roller pin. While striking the pin with a hammer a sliver a metal broke off and enter EE's right calf. Metal was removed by emergency clinic and 10 stitches were given.
2019 · 1 incident
July 3, 2019TX · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Employee was using pry bars to turn water pump sheaves in order to fit new belts between the fines recovery pumps and its motor. Employee's hand slipped off bar smashing EE's finger.
2017 · 2 incidents
July 19, 2017TX · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techHANDLING OF MATERIALS
Worker was attempting to weld on a piece of c-channel iron placed on a welding table. When leaning over they knocked the iron off the table and onto their right foot. The impact broke 2 bones in the arch of their foot.
April 20, 2017TX · Metal/Non-Metalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Employee was greasing excavator boom and slipped on the tracks. Employee hit employee's head on the tracks/ground and received a concussion.
2015 · 1 incident
September 14, 2015TX · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techHANDLING OF MATERIALS
Employee was conducting maintenance on a dozer's tension idler. The idler was unknowingly under pressure and when the mechanic began removing the bolts holding the idler in place the idler broke loose and struck the mechanic. The idler fractured the knuckle on his right pinky finger and the area of the skull above his right eye.