Mining Incidents

Purple Mountain Sand Co. Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Humberto Fraire
El Paso, El Paso County, TX  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4104327

Purple Mountain Sand Co. has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $2K 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 2002
30
citations
3
significant & substantial
$2,610
proposed penalties
$374
paid to date
14% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $2,236 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2002
20
inspections on record
189
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: 189 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Purple Mountain Sand Co. has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $2K 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.
$3K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$374
paid to date
$2K
outstanding
29 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2010-10-20.
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
2010 Q4 740 6 2 8108.1
2010 Q3 1,240 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 1,040 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 1,005 2 0 1990.0
2009 Q4 1,040 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 1,060 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 1,080 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 548 0 0 0.0
Show 17 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2008 Q4 938 7 0 7462.7
2008 Q3 986 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 970 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 1,002 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 1,050 1 0 952.4
2006 Q3 1,030 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 1,060 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 1,020 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 1,010 1 0 990.1
2005 Q2 990 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 1,040 2 0 1923.1
2004 Q2 960 1 0 1041.7
2003 Q4 1,030 2 0 1941.7
2003 Q3 1,030 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 1,040 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 1,020 2 1 1960.8
2002 Q1 1,040 0 0 0.0

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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