Mining Incidents

Rath Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Bryan A Nethery
Cuero, De Witt County, TX  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4105490

Rath Pit has $15K 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
5
Years on record
2021–2023
Latest incident
Aug 2023
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2020
40
citations
8
significant & substantial
$15,363
proposed penalties
$15,363
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2020
21
inspections on record
202
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: 202 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Rath Pit has $15K 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.
$15K
proposed penalties
$15K
current assessed
$15K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
40 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-12-11.
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 5,728 1 0 174.6
2025 Q3 4,393 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 4,041 2 0 494.9
2025 Q1 4,001 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 4,835 3 0 620.5
2024 Q3 3,835 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 3,808 4 0 1050.4
2024 Q1 3,929 1 0 254.5
Show 16 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 4,732 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 4,805 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 5,002 1 0 199.9
2023 Q1 3,525 4 0 1134.8
2022 Q4 3,607 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 2,938 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 5,118 2 0 390.8
2022 Q1 1,905 4 0 2099.7
2021 Q4 2,067 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 4,239 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 4,679 2 1 427.4
2021 Q1 4,938 5 1 1012.6
2020 Q4 6,065 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 3,991 4 3 1002.3
2020 Q2 3,458 3 1 867.6
2020 Q1 3,458 4 2 1156.7
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

5 on file

2023 · 1 incident

August 28, 2023 TX · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
ABN Construction, LLC · Struck by flying object

Tracks came off of the Track hoe. Co-worker told IE to get away from the machine while co-worker tried to get the machine fixed. At some point while trying to move the tracks, a piece of metal flew and hit IE in the left arm. Co-worker took IE to the ER and had the metal removed. Arm was x-rayed and stitched up. IE returned to lite duty the next day for work.

2022 · 2 incidents

June 15, 2022 TX · Metal/Non-Metal POWERED HAULAGE
ABN Construction, LLC · Accident type, without injuries

Employee was in a piece of equipment working material and backed into another employee's parked truck. The vehicle was damaged but no damage to equipment. No one was injured.

March 7, 2022 TX · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
ABN Construction, LLC · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Temperature was between 39 and 48 with light rain. Coming down on a ladder from coarse washer and lost footing, grabbing the hand railing.

2021 · 2 incidents

September 27, 2021 TX · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer POWERED HAULAGE
ABN Construction, LLC · Struck against a moving object

EE was on 950M Wheel loader, not paying attention and backed up over a berm and laid the wheel loader on its side.

February 2, 2021 TX · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer MACHINERY
ABN Construction, LLC · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Debris fell from excavator bounced off the side of bucket and rolled onto the railing of the 6x6 cab breaking window.

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