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: 492 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Poteet Plant has $239K in proposed MSHA penalties and $38K outstanding across 4 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.
$239K
proposed penalties
$211K
current assessed
$173K
paid to date
$38K
outstanding
156 assessments are final orders; 4 contested dockets.
Of $60K in penalties contested before the Commission, $17K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-08-05.
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.
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.
7citations taken to the federal commission · 4% of citations on record
Settled
4 · 57%
Stood as issued
2 · 29%
Vacated or withdrawn
1 · 14%
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 Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.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 6 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
71%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$60K proposed, $17K 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 A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record.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 2025-04-06.
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.
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: 2024-06-12
50%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
11
samples
8
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz104 over
Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (11)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2024-02-28
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.61
0.5
1.22
Cleanup Man
2024-02-28
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.84
0.58
1.45
Cleanup Man
2021-04-15
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.89
0.38
2.34
Cleanup Man
2021-04-15
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.97
0.49
1.98
Cleanup Man
2024-06-12
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Laborer, Bullgang
2024-06-12
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.13
0.57
0.23
Laborer, Bullgang
2024-02-28
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.29
0.58
0.50
Dry Screen Plant Operator
2021-07-19
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.27
Cleanup Man
2021-07-19
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.38
0.49
0.78
Cleanup Man
2021-04-15
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.13
Dry Screen Plant Operator
2021-04-15
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.32
0.42
0.76
Building Repair/Maint.
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.
Poteet Plant recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2025.
Injury rate, 2025
ⓘ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 1.65 and the all-US-mining average was 1.97 cases per 100 workers.
In Texas, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.17 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
2025 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2024 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2023 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2022 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2021 *
5.59
0.00
0.000
2020 *
8.90
4.45
0.000
2019 *
9.77
9.77
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
9
2025
28
2024
38
2023
39
2022
36
2021
16
2020
18
2019
19
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Poteet Plant sits in Atascosa County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 7.1% 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.
Atascosa County, Texas · Population 50,058
7.1%
Mining share of county employment
$69,413
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
1,957
0
0
0.0
2026 Q1
2,790
0
0
0.0
2025 Q4
2,848
0
0
0.0
2025 Q3
4,659
8
3
1717.1
2025 Q2
25,176
0
0
0.0
2025 Q1
22,819
15
1
657.3
2024 Q4
15,890
0
0
0.0
2024 Q3
18,514
4
0
216.1
Show 22 earlier quartersHide earlier quarters
Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2
21,030
0
0
0.0
2024 Q1
20,955
45
9
2147.5
2023 Q4
17,374
0
0
0.0
2023 Q3
15,687
9
2
573.7
2023 Q2
16,482
8
1
485.4
2023 Q1
33,827
0
0
0.0
2022 Q4
35,131
0
0
0.0
2022 Q3
28,503
9
4
315.8
2022 Q2
17,196
2
0
116.3
2022 Q1
17,192
17
6
988.8
2021 Q4
11,424
0
0
0.0
2021 Q3
5,158
0
0
0.0
2021 Q2
10,253
9
4
877.8
2021 Q1
8,971
0
0
0.0
2020 Q4
8,348
7
0
838.5
2020 Q3
5,292
1
0
189.0
2020 Q2
7,539
1
0
132.6
2020 Q1
23,765
15
6
631.2
2019 Q4
12,933
0
0
0.0
2019 Q3
6,685
0
0
0.0
2019 Q2
12,540
5
2
398.7
2019 Q1
8,769
0
0
0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
5 on file
2021 · 1 incident
May 25, 2021TX · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techHANDLING OF MATERIALS
Two workers removing a cyclone part off equipment. Equipment part was unexpectedly heavy due to unknown debris hiding inside. An edge of part hit one worker in face. Equipment was on ground. Temperature was 87 deg F with 61% humidity. No work days missed by IP (injured person).
2020 · 2 incidents
November 25, 2020TX · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techMACHINERY
Plant shut down w/dry work area. Work from ladder tied to structure. Worker in FRC, face shield, safety glasses, gloves, and fall arrest gear. Using 4" grinder to cut metal. Grinder kicked back into workers face causing laceration to chin.
March 24, 2020TX · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Employee was unsafe in the task they were performing, in direct violation of training and the site safety policy. Employee was standing on a railing and fell off of it. Disciplinary action will be commensed upon return to work. Employee has cut to the head & concussion. Staples inserted to be removed on 4/04/2020.
2019 · 2 incidents
October 29, 2019TX · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Worker tried to move a piece of steel onto the forklift in violation of company safety policy and EE's training. This aggravated an earlier medical hernia injury.