Mining Incidents

Rio Puerco Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by John Quintana
Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, NM  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2902353

Rio Puerco has $13K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 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 2008
53
citations
16
significant & substantial
$12,529
proposed penalties
$9,964
paid to date
80% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $2,565 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2008
19
inspections on record
251
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: 251 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Rio Puerco has $13K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 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.
$13K
proposed penalties
$10K
current assessed
$10K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
53 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2012-05-30.
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
2012 Q3 1,340 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 879 5 2 5688.3
2012 Q1 967 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 1,133 7 1 6178.3
2011 Q3 1,334 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 1,321 7 4 5299.0
2011 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q4 1,714 6 3 3500.6
Show 11 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2010 Q3 1,741 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 1,497 6 3 4008.0
2010 Q1 1,297 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 1,537 2 0 1301.2
2009 Q3 1,538 13 2 8452.5
2009 Q2 1,607 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 1,836 3 0 1634.0
2008 Q4 2,784 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 2,438 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 2,023 1 0 494.3
2008 Q1 985 3 1 3045.7

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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