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New Braunfels Quarry: 61 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

San Antonio, Comal County, TX  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4104264

New Braunfels Quarry has $13K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 6 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
11
Years on record
2001–2014
Latest incident
Mar 2014
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
61
citations
11
significant & substantial
$13,286
proposed penalties
$12,791
paid to date
96% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $495 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Martin Marietta Materials Southwest, Inc's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
41
inspections on record
644
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: 644 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

New Braunfels Quarry has $13K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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.
$13K
proposed penalties
$13K
current assessed
$13K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
61 assessments are final orders; 6 contested dockets.
Of $4K in penalties contested before the Commission, $3K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2016-08-30.
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.
18.0%
significant & substantial
8.2%
high negligence or reckless
16.4%
reasonably likely or greater
37.7%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 4.9% none, 9.8% low, 77.0% moderate, 8.2% 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.
6 citations taken to the federal commission · 10% of citations on record
  • Settled 5 · 83%
  • Stood as issued 1 · 17%
67%
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 3 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
15%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$3K proposed, $3K 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 2015-06-09.
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 2011-831M Settlement Paez 2013 $2K → $2K
CENT 2011-832M Settlement Paez 2013 $334 → $334
CENT 2012-623M Settlement Lesnick 2012 $324 → $200
CENT20030157M Settlement Zielinski 2003 $238 → $238
CENT 2008-527M Settlement Lesnick 2010 $100 → $100
CENT 2015-0465 Default Lesnick 2015 $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: 2012-04-11, 14 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
3
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg2
  • Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (3)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2012-04-11 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Drill Operator, Rotary Air
2012-04-11 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2012-04-11 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 3.68 10 0.37 Laborer, Bullgang
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.

New Braunfels Quarry recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2016.

Injury rate, 2016
ⓘ 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 2.17 and the all-US-mining average was 2.59 cases per 100 workers.
In Texas, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.82 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
2016 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2015 0.00 0.00 0.000
2014 * 2.06 0.00 0.000
2013 * 4.11 2.05 0.000
2012 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2011 * 2.60 0.00 0.000
2010 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2009 * 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. Martin Marietta Materials Southwest Ltd 2001 to 2007
  2. Martin Marietta Materials Southwest, Inc 2007 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2017 14
2016 32
2015 38
2014 35
2013 35
2012 32
2011 30
2010 30
2009 30
2008 34
2007 35
2006 35
2005 35
2004 32
2003 32
2002 36
2001 22
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

New Braunfels Quarry sits in Comal County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 1.0% 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.
Comal County, Texas · Population 174,552
1.0%
Mining share of county employment
$99,015
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
2017 Q2 1,946 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 9,556 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 13,100 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 27,310 1 0 36.6
2016 Q2 24,777 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 25,204 2 1 79.4
2015 Q4 28,476 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 29,076 5 3 172.0
Show 58 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2015 Q2 29,056 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 29,474 3 1 101.8
2014 Q4 25,678 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 24,931 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 24,596 3 1 122.0
2014 Q1 21,790 2 2 91.8
2013 Q4 23,023 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 22,814 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 23,804 1 0 42.0
2013 Q1 27,754 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 24,978 2 0 80.1
2012 Q3 22,779 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 22,013 2 0 90.9
2012 Q1 20,497 2 0 97.6
2011 Q4 19,282 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 20,973 1 0 47.7
2011 Q2 18,154 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 18,368 4 2 217.8
2010 Q4 20,962 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 18,200 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 18,006 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 14,468 3 0 207.4
2009 Q4 14,927 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 16,273 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 18,588 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 16,138 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 16,655 1 0 60.0
2008 Q3 20,505 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 26,527 1 0 37.7
2008 Q1 27,423 3 0 109.4
2007 Q4 27,998 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 28,523 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 28,370 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 27,485 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 29,549 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 28,265 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 27,573 1 0 36.3
2006 Q1 27,515 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 26,052 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 28,300 1 0 35.3
2005 Q2 23,773 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 27,541 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 24,165 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 23,397 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 22,536 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 22,065 1 0 45.3
2003 Q4 20,959 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 24,636 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 19,420 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 21,227 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 19,235 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 20,482 1 0 48.8
2002 Q2 17,438 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 13,749 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 5,758 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 15,569 2 0 128.5
2001 Q2 12,017 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 11,143 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

11 on file

2014 · 1 incident

March 22, 2014 TX · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Martin Marietta Materials Southwest, Inc · Struck by falling object

Employee was taking off the wheel chock by sliding it off the holder; the weight of the falling chock hurt his shoulder.

2013 · 2 incidents

February 15, 2013 TX · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Martin Marietta Materials Southwest, Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was adjusting V belts in the primary crusher. As he was holding the belt with his right hand and pulling the belt with his left hand, his leather glove was caught between the sheave. He injured his left hand ring finger.

2011 · 1 incident

October 27, 2011 TX · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Martin Marietta Materials Southwest, Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was removing V belts on the primary crusher to replace with new ones. He was working on cutting the final belt on the motor. As he was holding the belt with his left hand and cutting with his right, his hand shifted, bringing it into the path of the razor knife. Employee cut through his leather glove and lacerated his left hand.

2010 · 1 incident

2005 · 1 incident

August 25, 2005 TX · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Martin Marietta Materials Southwest Ltd · Struck against a moving object

EE WAS BACKING HAUL UNIT UNDER LOADER TO BE LOADED WITH SHOT ROCK. AS HE NEARED THE LOADER, HIS BACK TIRE ROLLED ONTO A SLIGHTLY HIGHER SPOT ON THE PIT FLOOR. THIS CAUSED HIS BED TO TILT UP HITTING LOADER ARM. HE RECEIVED STRAIN TO NECK/SHOULDER ARE. WAS 1ST AID(AND DR'S 1ST AID) UNTIL 10/13 WHEN HE BEGAN MEDICAL TREATMENT(PHYSICAL THERAPY)

2002 · 3 incidents

October 20, 2002 TX · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Martin Marietta Materials Southwest Ltd · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EE WAS CLSING DOORS UNDER RAILCAR AND PINCHED FINGER BETWEEN METAL BAR AND CAR.

May 9, 2002 TX · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Martin Marietta Materials Southwest Ltd · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS WRAPPING UP HOSE ON PRESSURE WASHER, WHICH HE HAD TURNED OFF. HE ACCIDENTILLY SQUEEZED TRIGGER & SPRAYED HAND.

January 14, 2002 TX · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Martin Marietta Materials Southwest Ltd · Struck against a moving object

OPERATING FRONT END LOADER, MACHINE SHIFTED, ELBOW HIT AGAINST INSIDE OF CAB FRACTURING ELBOW.

2001 · 2 incidents

August 9, 2001 TX · Metal/Non-Metal truck driver HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Martin Marietta Materials Southwest Ltd · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

ADJUSTING BELTS ON PULLY AND PINCHED RIGHT LITTLE FINGER. WENT TO DOCTOR TO GET TOPICAL OINTMENT. DID NOT KEEP FINGER CLEAN, INFECTED. HAD TO TAKE ORAL ANTIBIOTIC. NO LOST TIME, NO RESTRICTED DUTY.