Mining Incidents

Portable Gravel Pit: 18 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Ag Services Construction, Inc. · Surface
Controlled by Ray Pope
Roswell, Chaves County, NM  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 2902423

Portable Gravel Pit has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2012
18
citations
2
significant & substantial
$2,159
proposed penalties
$2,159
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2012
15
inspections on record
119
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: 119 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Portable Gravel Pit has $2K 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.
$2K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
17 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2023-11-28.
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.
11.1%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
11.1%
reasonably likely or greater
33.3%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 5.6% low, 94.4% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
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: 2022-04-21, 4 years ago
2
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg2
Show the individual readings (2)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2022-04-21 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2022-04-21 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 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.
Ownership history
  1. Ag Services Construction, Inc. 2012 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 0
2025 1
2024 4
2023 3
2022 2
2021 3
2020 4
2019 2
2018 1
2017 2
2016 2
2015 3
2014 2
2013 2
2012 3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Portable Gravel Pit sits in Chaves County, New Mexico, where the Census mining category is 2.9% 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.
Chaves County, New Mexico · Population 64,446
2.9%
Mining share of county employment
$52,029
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 0 0 0
2026 Q1 0 0 0
2025 Q4 0 0 0
2025 Q3 0 0 0
2025 Q2 13 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 236 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 190 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 168 0 0 0.0
Show 50 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 163 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 155 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 385 3 0 7792.2
2023 Q3 2,118 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 123 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 68 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 7 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 6 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 357 1 0 2801.1
2022 Q1 328 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 282 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 132 2 0 15151.5
2021 Q2 0 0 0
2021 Q1 253 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 153 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 320 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 763 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 260 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 98 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 2 2 0 1000000.0
2019 Q2 405 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 68 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 54 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 4 1 0 250000.0
2018 Q2 65 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 5 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 100 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 222 2 0 9009.0
2017 Q2 326 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 752 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 545 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 206 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 184 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 154 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 227 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 58 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 21 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 29 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 327 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 0 0 0
2014 Q2 280 1 0 3571.4
2014 Q1 189 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 26 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 63 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 380 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 545 1 1 1834.9
2012 Q4 57 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 438 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 476 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 1,940 4 1 2061.9

No reportable incidents on file.

MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents for this mine in the current dataset. New reports appear here within a week of being filed.