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Musgrave Pit: 144 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Joseph H Anderson
Hebbronville, Jim Hogg County, TX  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4105118

Musgrave Pit has $68K in proposed MSHA penalties and $16K outstanding across 6 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2016–2019
Latest incident
Jan 2019
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2015
144
citations
31
significant & substantial
$67,675
proposed penalties
$48,613
paid to date
72% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $19,062 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Anderson Columbia Co., Inc.'s full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2015
40
inspections on record
607
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: 607 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Imminent-danger orders
ⓘ A Section 107(a) order removes miners from an area when an inspector finds an imminent danger. Each order is lifted once the condition is corrected, so this counts orders issued, not orders now in effect.
2
Section 107(a) orders
Most recent order: 2016-06-28.
On record since 2016.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.

Musgrave Pit has $68K in proposed MSHA penalties and $16K outstanding across 6 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.
$68K
proposed penalties
$64K
current assessed
$49K
paid to date
$16K
outstanding
105 assessments are final orders; 6 contested dockets.
Of $11K in penalties contested before the Commission, $8K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-07-15.
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.
22.5%
significant & substantial
24.6%
high negligence or reckless
22.5%
reasonably likely or greater
26.1%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 2.2% low, 73.2% moderate, 24.6% 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.
35 citations taken to the federal commission · 24% of citations on record
  • Settled 6 · 17%
  • Stood as issued 1 · 3%
  • Vacated or withdrawn 1 · 3%
  • Still open 27 · 77%
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 4 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
30%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$11K proposed, $8K 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 2026-03-12.
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 2016-0539 Settlement Paez 2017 $10K → $7K
CENT 2017-0538 Dismissal Lesnick 2018 $577 → $577
CENT 2016-0202 Settlement Moran 2016 $408 → $239
CENT 2025-0145 Settlement Paez 2025 $302 → $151
CENT 2026-0112 Decision pending
CENT 2026-0174 Decision pending
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: 2024-12-04
25%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
5
samples
4
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz41 over
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (5)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2015-04-02 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.65 0.29 2.24 Dry Screen Plant Operator
2024-12-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Scraper Operator
2024-12-04 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.25 0.59 0.42 Cleanup Man
2015-04-02 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.13 0.54 0.24 Front-end Loader Operator
2015-04-02 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.24 0.58 0.41 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.

Musgrave 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 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2020 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2019 * 4.82 4.82 0.000
2017 * 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. Anderson Columbia Co., Inc. 2015 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 24
2025 23
2024 11
2023 11
2022 14
2021 15
2020 17
2019 17
2018 9
2017 8
2016 19
2015 8
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Musgrave Pit sits in Jim Hogg County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 22.5% 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.
Jim Hogg County, Texas · Population 4,797
22.5%
Mining share of county employment
$42,230
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 17,166 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 21,002 27 4 1285.6
2025 Q4 20,275 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 18,116 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 16,131 6 1 372.0
2025 Q1 13,794 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 14,131 4 1 283.1
2024 Q3 14,132 2 0 141.5
Show 38 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 13,244 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 13,857 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 11,103 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 13,861 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 13,439 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 9,133 2 0 219.0
2022 Q4 8,158 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 7,629 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 5,109 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 316 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 4,051 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 9,644 5 0 518.5
2021 Q2 9,359 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 11,283 6 3 531.8
2020 Q4 12,865 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 10,255 1 0 97.5
2020 Q2 12,761 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 13,872 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 15,014 6 2 399.6
2019 Q3 8,990 7 2 778.6
2019 Q2 9,000 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 8,485 4 0 471.4
2018 Q4 8,221 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 4,000 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 351 3 0 8547.0
2018 Q1 6,455 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 5,478 3 0 547.6
2017 Q3 7,143 3 1 420.0
2017 Q2 4,486 3 1 668.7
2017 Q1 6,316 5 0 791.6
2016 Q4 19,944 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 8,564 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 2,534 6 2 2367.8
2016 Q1 3,518 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 6,476 19 5 2933.9
2015 Q3 5,745 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 3,601 1 1 277.7
2015 Q1 630 2 1 3174.6
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2019 · 1 incident

January 2, 2019 TX · Metal/Non-Metal utility man, shift tech, service/dump truck operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Anderson Columbia Co., Inc. · Fall onto or against objects

The ground conditions were wet due to rain. The employee attempted to grease the front bucket of a front end loader by climbing onto the bucket. The employee slipped and fell hitting left shoulder and neck area. The employee suffered a strained/sprained left shoulder and a strained/sprained neck.

2016 · 1 incident

June 24, 2016 TX · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Anderson Columbia Co., Inc. · Fall from scaffolds, walkways, platforms

The employee was standing on the catwalk of a shaker. EE was attempting to hand one end of an extension cord to a welder and placed one foot on the mid rail. After handing the extension cord, the employee lost footing and fell over the rail. The employee suffered contusions and swelling to back.