REALITOS PIT Plant# 2 has $37K 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
30
Years on record
1986–2026
Latest incident
Apr 2026
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
179
citations
38
significant & substantial
$36,903
proposed penalties
$36,903
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
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: 887 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
REALITOS PIT Plant# 2 has $37K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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.
$37K
proposed penalties
$37K
current assessed
$37K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
177 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $143 in penalties contested before the Commission, $143 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-11-25.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
ⓘShares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
When citations were contested
ⓘContesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
1citations taken to the federal commission · 1% of citations on record
Stood as issued
1 · 100%
0%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$143 proposed, $143 after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2023-09-26.
Contested penalties
ⓘA reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.
Largest penalties this mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
Health sampling
ⓘA sample is a point in time compliance measurement, not an individual exposure history. These figures describe MSHA sampling records and do not establish causation or personal dose.
Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
ⓘMany samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.
Last sampled: 2024-02-28
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
12
samples
3
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Respirable dust, <.1mg9
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz3
Show the individual readings (12)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2024-02-28
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Utility Man
2024-02-28
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.18
0.96
0.19
Front-end Loader Operator
2011-01-26
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.25
0.93
0.27
Crusher Oper/Worker
2011-01-26
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Bulldozer Operator
2011-01-26
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Dump Operator
2009-06-02
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Backhoe Operator
2009-06-02
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Truck Driver
2009-06-02
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Crusher Oper/Worker
2004-10-20
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Utility Man
2004-10-20
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Scraper Operator
2004-10-20
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Scraper Operator
2004-10-20
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.16
0.57
0.28
Crusher Oper/Worker
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly. Metal/nonmetal contaminant figures come from MSHA's Personal Health Samples and Area Samples files (public record), updated weekly.
REALITOS PIT Plant# 2 recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2025.
Injury rate, 2025
ⓘThis rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
No reportable injury cases in any year shown. Employee-hours were reported in each of those years, so these are true zeros rather than missing data. Citations, listed in the compliance record above, are inspector-found violations and are counted separately from worker injuries.
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.65 and the all-US-mining average was 1.97 cases per 100 workers.
In Texas, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.17 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Year
total case rate
days-away
fatal
2025 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2024 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2023 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2022 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2021 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2020 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2019 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2018 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2026
21
2025
19
2024
21
2023
24
2022
24
2021
23
2020
23
2019
22
2018
20
2017
20
2016
21
2015
22
2014
22
2013
21
2012
20
2011
20
2010
21
2009
23
2008
25
2007
24
2006
25
2005
23
2004
21
2003
20
2002
19
2001
18
2000
18
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
REALITOS PIT Plant# 2 sits in Duval County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 22.4% of county employment.
Local economic context
ⓘCounty figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.
Duval County, Texas · Population 9,824
22.4%
Mining share of county employment
$50,081
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
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
Employee found slumped over in haul truck while waiting to load. Unresponsive to radio. No prior symptoms reported. Transported for medical care; later diagnosed with suspected stroke and brain clot. No known work-related cause identified.
2016 · 1 incident
September 23, 2016TX · Metal/Non-Metalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
The EE alleges he hurt his back on 10/2 but did not report any injury. I spoke to the EE on 10/28 via telephone after trying several times to contact him. He states he was putting on a repaired hydraulic hose on his haul truck and hurt his back. He left work on 10/8 when he was told to find a water leak in his truck. The EE also filed for unemployment.
2013 · 1 incident
April 29, 2013TX · Metal/Non-Metalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerHANDLING OF MATERIALS
Miss stepped on grader latter causing operator to hold his entire body weight with his right arm on the entry handle so to not fall on grader blade. pulled his bicep muscle to a very painful state to which he could not curl his arm without pain level of 8 on a 1 to 10 scale. doctor ordered MRI may have torn muscle. MRI as of(5-2-2013)has not been done do to workmen's comp.
2009 · 1 incident
May 5, 2009TX · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Wright Materials Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
Employee went down ladder to adjust feeder opening. After doing so, he then was using a scraper approximately 4" in length to remove build up on the sides of chute. In doing so, the material flowing from feeder grabbed the scraper pinning his thumb between the hand rail and the scraper, with enough force to cause the laceration to his thumb.
Pit was dry and maintained. Miner stated that he was bent over looking into his lunchbox and not paying attention where he was going and veered off the road into the pit. Truck dropped approximately 5ft. coming to rest on its left side, damaging the walkway, handrails. and door.
As the dragline was backing away from the pit, (the truck driver was parked about 30 yards directly behind the dragline) he ran into the side of the Euc R40 tipping it on its side. The driver fell to the opposite side of the cab.
2005 · 1 incident
October 11, 2005TX · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
EE was attempting to clean out feeder when the tool he was using was caught in a clay ball. As the clay fell out of the feeder, it pulled the tool with it, pinching and cutting the EE's finger against the railing.
2004 · 2 incidents
March 2, 2004TX · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanMACHINERY
WORKER LAID DOOR SUPPORT SHAFT ON EDGE OF CONVEY9OR, IN PROCESS OF PUTTING SHAFT BACK IN PLACE IT CAUGHT MOVING IDLER & BELT PULLING SHAFT & HADN THROUGH IDLER.
ELECTRICAL BOX SHORTED OUT AND HIT HIM IN RIGHT THUMB WHEN HE WAS RESETTING THE BREAKER.
1989 · 1 incident
March 14, 1989TX · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techHANDLING OF MATERIALS
EMPLOYEE I.NAME3& I.NAME WERE TAKING OFF A ROLLER WHEN A PIECE OF BALL BEARING CAME OFF HITTING EMPLOYEE ON BOTH LEGS WENT TO SEE THE DOC ON 090986 BECAUSE HIS RT LEG WAS HURTING HIM