Mining Incidents

Railroad Plant Metal/Non-Metal

Carrizo Creek · Surface
Fort Sumner, De Baca County, NM  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 2902454

Railroad Plant has $3K 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 2016
31
citations
2
significant & substantial
$3,249
proposed penalties
$3,249
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2016
16
inspections on record
176
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: 176 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Railroad Plant has $3K 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.
$3K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
24 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2023-02-01.
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 765 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 1,132 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 703 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 1,192 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 965 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 1,266 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 370 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 320 0 0 0.0
Show 29 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q2 0 0 0
2023 Q1 835 4 2 4790.4
2022 Q4 1,063 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,465 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,773 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 1,224 1 0 817.0
2021 Q4 1,563 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,378 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 1,079 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1,247 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 1,433 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1,497 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 1,740 5 0 2873.6
2020 Q1 1,468 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 1,852 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,598 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 2,077 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 1,560 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 1,837 2 0 1088.7
2018 Q3 1,460 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 1,350 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 1,545 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 1,143 5 0 4374.5
2017 Q3 960 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 841 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 456 2 0 4386.0
2016 Q4 480 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 510 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 458 5 0 10917.0

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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The full compliance file on Railroad Plant

A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.