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: 329 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.
1
Section 107(a) orders
Most recent order: 2013-07-16.
On record since 2013.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.
Pearl has $29K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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.
$29K
proposed penalties
$29K
current assessed
$29K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
71 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2019-09-06.
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: 2017-08-09, 9 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
7
samples
5
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz4
Respirable dust, <.1mg2
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (7)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2017-08-09
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2017-08-09
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2017-08-09
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.79
2.39
0.33
Cleanup Man
2015-06-03
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.3
10
0.03
Utility Man
2015-06-03
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.16
1.23
0.13
Front-end Loader Operator
2015-06-03
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
1.15
1.57
0.73
Utility Man
2015-06-03
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.51
1.38
0.37
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.
Pearl recorded 17.81 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2015.
Injury rate, 2015
ⓘ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.
17.81
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 2.26 and the all-US-mining average was 2.72 cases per 100 workers.
In Texas, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.22 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
2015 *
17.81
0.00
0.000
2014 *
11.66
0.00
0.000
2013 *
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
5
2025
5
2024
4
2020
1
2019
4
2018
2
2017
5
2016
10
2015
18
2014
14
2013
8
2012
6
2011
7
2010
3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Pearl 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
2026 Q2
277
0
0
0.0
2026 Q1
589
0
0
0.0
2025 Q4
415
0
0
0.0
2025 Q3
381
0
0
0.0
2025 Q2
281
0
0
0.0
2025 Q1
360
0
0
0.0
2024 Q4
42
0
0
0.0
2024 Q3
426
0
0
0.0
Show 37 earlier quartersHide earlier quarters
Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2
656
0
0
0.0
2020 Q2
0
0
0
2020 Q1
1,287
0
0
0.0
2019 Q4
1,143
0
0
0.0
2019 Q3
222
1
0
4504.5
2019 Q2
503
0
0
0.0
2019 Q1
3,179
0
0
0.0
2018 Q4
1,470
4
0
2721.1
2017 Q2
400
0
0
0.0
2017 Q1
160
1
0
6250.0
2016 Q4
4,098
0
0
0.0
2016 Q3
4,145
0
0
0.0
2016 Q2
1,545
7
3
4530.7
2016 Q1
1,545
0
0
0.0
2015 Q4
7,965
10
3
1255.5
2015 Q3
10,841
0
0
0.0
2015 Q2
8,569
3
2
350.1
2015 Q1
17,547
0
0
0.0
2014 Q4
10,878
7
4
643.5
2014 Q3
8,267
2
0
241.9
2014 Q2
8,876
0
0
0.0
2014 Q1
6,278
0
0
0.0
2013 Q4
4,152
2
0
481.7
2013 Q3
6,351
3
1
472.4
2013 Q2
4,943
0
0
0.0
2013 Q1
4,877
5
4
1025.2
2012 Q4
4,958
0
0
0.0
2012 Q3
5,559
1
1
179.9
2012 Q2
3,338
2
1
599.2
2012 Q1
4,227
10
4
2365.7
2011 Q4
3,773
0
0
0.0
2011 Q3
4,216
0
0
0.0
2011 Q2
6,978
4
1
573.2
2011 Q1
2,031
3
1
1477.1
2010 Q4
2,056
0
0
0.0
2010 Q3
1,335
2
0
1498.1
2010 Q2
1,799
0
0
0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
8 on file
2017 · 1 incident
June 29, 2017TX · Metal/Non-Metalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerPOWERED HAULAGE
On 6/29/2017 employee was operating a loader and strained back when the machine drove through a rut. Injury did not result in reportable restrictions until 7/10/2017 due to employee on vacation for the holiday. Spoke to the MSHA office of Injury Illness and employment.
Employee was standing on back of welding trailer loosening mounting bolt off of a 1400 screen plant when the 1/2in drive 3/4in socket slipped off of the loose nut and came in to contact with the top front left tooth causing it to chip a 3rd of the tooth off.
Employee was helping change the shoes on the vsi crusher. Weather was clear and sunny, about 75°F.
January 15, 2015TX · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techHANDLING OF MATERIALS
Employee needed to load the air compressor in the back of his truck to take to another location. He had oxygen and acetylene bottle in the back of his truck and needed to move them out of the way. He picked up the acetylene bottle to lay it back down in the bed, when he did this he dropped the bottle of top of his foot.
Clear skies and 60°F with W winds blowing approximately 10-15 mph. Employee was waiting for a 1-1/8" socket to tighten bolts on a belt clamp. When he looked up to grab the socket and the wind blew some dust into his eye.
2014 · 2 incidents
December 18, 2014TX · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Miner was completing screen maintenance on a portable screen. Miner was tightening the fasteners of the screen retaining brackets and the wrench slipped off of the fastener. Miner struck an adjacent fastener with his right ring finger when the wrench slipped. Miner suffered a small contusion under his right ring fingernail.
December 5, 2014TX · Metal/Non-Metalfront-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operatorHANDLING OF MATERIALS
Was unloading rock screen from a bucket of a loader. As they was lifting the screen the other man lost his grip at this time the screen caught the mans glove and pulled him to the ground causing him to hurt this hand.
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