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: 385 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Peril Pit has $9K 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.
$9K
proposed penalties
$9K
current assessed
$9K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
63 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-05-14.
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: 2024-10-23
4
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Respirable dust, <.1mg4
Show the individual readings (4)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2024-10-23
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2024-10-23
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2018-10-30
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2018-10-30
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
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.
Peril Pit recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2024.
Injury rate, 2024
ⓘ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 1.77 and the all-US-mining average was 2.08 cases per 100 workers.
In Texas, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.49 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.
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
10
2023
9
2022
10
2021
7
2020
5
2019
3
2018
3
2017
4
2016
2
2015
0
2013
3
2012
2
2011
1
2010
1
2009
1
2008
0
2007
3
2006
2
2005
2
2004
7
2003
7
2002
3
2001
4
2000
0
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Peril Pit sits in Burnet County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 1.5% 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.
Burnet County, Texas · Population 51,064
1.5%
Mining share of county employment
$77,158
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
EE WAS INT HE PROCESS OF PUTTING BAGS-FULL OF COLLECTED DUST INTO THE LOADER. BUCKET FOR DISPOSAL. WHILE DOING THIS THE LOADER BUCKET SHIFTED PINNING HIS RIGHT FOOT BETWEEN THE BUCKET AND THE GROUND. THIS ACTION MASHED HIS STEEL TOED BOOT ONTO HIS FOOT CAUSING THE FRACTURE OF HIS BIG TOE AND THE TWO NEXT TO IT.
1992 · 1 incident
June 10, 1992TX · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanMACHINERY
USING PIPE WRENCH TO TIGHTEN 2" JOINT OF PIPE.APPLIED PRESSURE TO WRENCH WITH FOOT,IT SLIPPED CAUSING HIM TO STRIKE KNEE AGAINST GROUND.DIDNT NOTICE PROBLEM SO DIDNT REPORT INCIDENT UNTIL 12-1 0-90 TO SUPV AND MED DEPT.REFERRED AT THAT TIME.
EE WAS MOVING A RAILROAD TIE AND A SPLINTER FROM THE TIE EMBEDDED IN HIS RIGHT FINGER. HE REMOVED THE SPLINTER AT THAT TIME, AND DID NOT REPORT IT AS HE FELT IT WAS MINOR. THE NEXT DAY IT BECA ME SWOLLEN AND HE REPORTED IT TO THE CO NURSE, AND WAS REFERRED FOR FURTHER MEDICAL ATTENTION ON 8-2-90.
1988 · 1 incident
August 4, 1988TX · Metal/Non-Metalledgeman/hand, quarry manDISORDERS (PHYSICAL AGENTS)
DISMOUNTED FROM TRACK CRAINE TO PICK UP WATER CAN & MOVE TO MAIN PLANT. LOADING SITE STARTED TO PICK UP CAN & FELL TO GROUND. TRANSPORTED TO DR & RELEASED BY DR TO COME BACK TO WORK NEXT M ORNING LIGHT DUTY. RELEASED FOR FULL DUTY 8/9/88. EMPL WAS TAKING PRESCRIPTION MED WHICH MAY HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO HEAT EXHAUSTION.
1984 · 2 incidents
July 23, 1984TX · Metal/Non-Metalledgeman/hand, quarry manPOWERED HAULAGE