Mining Incidents

Right Way Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Jack Adcox
Highlands TX, Harris County, TX  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4105505

Right Way has $39K in proposed MSHA penalties and $6K outstanding across 5 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 2021
65
citations
17
significant & substantial
$39,302
proposed penalties
$20,459
paid to date
52% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $18,843 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2020
15
inspections on record
284
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: 284 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Right Way has $39K in proposed MSHA penalties and $6K outstanding across 5 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.
$39K
proposed penalties
$27K
current assessed
$20K
paid to date
$6K
outstanding
58 assessments are final orders; 5 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-12-15.
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 15,381 3 0 195.0
2025 Q3 12,019 2 0 166.4
2025 Q2 4,585 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 4,943 9 2 1820.8
2024 Q4 2,430 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 2,986 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 3,027 12 4 3964.3
2024 Q1 2,683 5 1 1863.6
Show 14 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 1,962 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 3,406 9 5 2642.4
2023 Q2 3,478 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 1,996 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 1,204 6 2 4983.4
2022 Q3 1,283 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,463 3 0 2050.6
2022 Q1 1,095 5 0 4566.2
2021 Q4 691 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,294 7 3 5409.6
2021 Q2 954 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1,055 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 7,333 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 8,474 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.