Mining Incidents

Precinct 3 Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Hockley County-TX
Levelland, Hockley County, TX  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 4104868

Precinct 3 Pit has $1K 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 2011
10
citations
2
significant & substantial
$1,340
proposed penalties
$1,340
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2011
21
inspections on record
152
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: 152 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Precinct 3 Pit has $1K 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.
$1K
proposed penalties
$1K
current assessed
$1K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
10 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-08-13.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
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
2025 Q4 275 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 180 2 0 11111.1
2025 Q2 241 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 281 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 153 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 121 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 123 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 303 0 0 0.0
Show 51 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 251 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 61 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 94 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 353 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 213 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 129 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 299 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 361 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 359 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 276 1 0 3623.2
2021 Q2 371 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 353 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 477 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 239 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 469 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 219 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 209 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 125 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 181 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 121 2 0 16528.9
2018 Q4 93 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 171 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 384 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 307 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 321 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 109 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 319 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 407 1 1 2457.0
2016 Q4 415 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 208 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 401 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 552 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 595 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 271 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 181 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 262 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 315 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 264 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 269 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 226 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 172 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 406 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 352 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 271 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 352 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 226 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 379 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 550 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 352 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 625 1 1 1600.0
2011 Q2 354 3 0 8474.6

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.

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