Rancho Viejo Mine Metal/Non-Metal
Rancho Viejo, LLC
· Surface
Controlled by
Felipe Sanchez
Scholle,
Valencia County,
NM
·
Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 2902472
Rancho Viejo Mine has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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 2017
17
citations
2
significant & substantial
$3,342
proposed penalties
$3,342
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2017
15
inspections on record
188
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: 188 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Rancho Viejo Mine has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 contested dockets.
Penalty disposition
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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
17 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-08-26.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
See also
the operator's enforcement record
Quarterly safety rates
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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 | 968 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2025 Q3 | 1,020 | 1 | 0 | 980.4 |
| 2025 Q2 | 208 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2025 Q1 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 333333.3 |
| 2024 Q4 | 250 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2024 Q3 | 392 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2024 Q2 | 448 | 2 | 0 | 4464.3 |
| 2024 Q1 | 896 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
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| Quarter | Hours worked | Citations | S&S | Per 1M hrs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Q4 | 728 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2023 Q3 | 812 | 1 | 0 | 1231.5 |
| 2023 Q2 | 800 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2023 Q1 | 576 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2022 Q4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2022 Q3 | 177 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2022 Q2 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2022 Q1 | 480 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2021 Q4 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2021 Q3 | 1,216 | 2 | 0 | 1644.7 |
| 2021 Q2 | 766 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2021 Q1 | 960 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2020 Q4 | 648 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2020 Q3 | 648 | 2 | 0 | 3086.4 |
| 2020 Q2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2020 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2019 Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2019 Q3 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2019 Q2 | 100 | 2 | 0 | 20000.0 |
| 2019 Q1 | 20 | 1 | 1 | 50000.0 |
| 2018 Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2018 Q3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2018 Q2 | 56 | 1 | 0 | 17857.1 |
| 2018 Q1 | 42 | 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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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.