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Orla # 1866: 44 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Arcosa, Inc
Orla, Pecos County, TX  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4104958

Orla # 1866 has $11K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2017
Latest incident
May 2017
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2012
44
citations
9
significant & substantial
$11,140
proposed penalties
$11,140
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Arcosa Aggregates Texas, LLC's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2012
27
inspections on record
279
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: 279 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Orla # 1866 has $11K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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.
$11K
proposed penalties
$11K
current assessed
$11K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
44 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $100 in penalties contested before the Commission, $100 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-01-17.
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.
20.5%
significant & substantial
2.3%
high negligence or reckless
20.5%
reasonably likely or greater
40.9%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 97.7% moderate, 2.3% 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.
1 citations taken to the federal commission · 2% of citations on record
  • Settled 1 · 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
$100 proposed, $100 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 2014-01-29.
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 2014-183M Settlement Lesnick 2014 $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: 2024-01-17
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
11
samples
2
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz5
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz3
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg2
  • Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (11)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2024-01-17 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.18 Front-end Loader Operator
2024-01-17 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.6 1.82 0.33 Mechanic
2024-01-17 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.13 10 0.01 Mechanic
2024-01-17 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.15 Front-end Loader Operator
2020-09-15 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Supervisor, Co. Official
2020-09-15 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.16 Front-end Loader Operator
2020-09-15 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2018-03-27 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 1.29 Supervisor, Co. Official
2018-03-27 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.14 Front-end Loader Operator
2018-03-27 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 1.09 Utility Man
2018-03-27 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.19 Rotary Bucket Ex. 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.

Orla # 1866 recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2023.

Injury rate, 2023
ⓘ 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
No reportable injury cases in any year shown. Employee-hours were reported in each of those years, so these are true zeros rather than missing data. Citations, listed in the compliance record above, are inspector-found violations and are counted separately from worker injuries.
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.78 and the all-US-mining average was 2.10 cases per 100 workers.
In Texas, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.29 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
2023 * 0.00 0.00 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. Pinnacle Materials, LLC 2012 to 2013
  2. Allied Custom Gypsum 2013 to 2013
  3. ACG Materials 2013 to 2018
  4. ACG Materials 2018 to 2022
  5. Arcosa Aggregates Texas, LLC 2023 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2024 6
2023 10
2022 10
2021 8
2020 15
2019 16
2018 14
2017 12
2014 3
2013 3
2012 5
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Orla # 1866 sits in Pecos County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 13.8% 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.
Pecos County, Texas · Population 14,983
13.8%
Mining share of county employment
$67,689
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
2024 Q3 318 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 2,622 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 5,134 1 0 194.8
2023 Q4 5,156 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 5,027 1 0 198.9
2023 Q2 5,057 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 5,813 1 0 172.0
2022 Q4 5,594 0 0 0.0
Show 27 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2022 Q3 4,693 1 1 213.1
2022 Q2 4,881 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 3,100 9 0 2903.2
2021 Q4 3,730 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 3,179 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 4,200 1 0 238.1
2021 Q1 4,049 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 3,155 2 0 633.9
2020 Q3 2,317 8 2 3452.7
2020 Q2 8,483 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 8,517 6 3 704.5
2019 Q4 8,981 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 8,031 3 0 373.6
2019 Q2 8,915 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 7,158 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 7,683 1 0 130.2
2018 Q3 7,523 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 5,819 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 8,204 3 0 365.7
2017 Q4 6,939 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 5,035 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 3,689 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 1,491 5 1 3353.5
2014 Q2 1,440 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 1,592 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 1,650 1 1 606.1
2012 Q3 2,020 1 1 495.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2017 · 1 incident

May 29, 2017 TX · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer POWERED HAULAGE
ACG Materials · Struck by falling object

After digging out a plugged tail pulley the employee went to start the conveyor belt when a rock 4"X6" fell from the belt striking employee's left hand between the thumb and index finger.