Mining Incidents

River City Ready Mix, Inc.: 180 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

River City Ready Mix, Inc. · Surface
Controlled by Art Lopez
San Antonio, Bexar County, TX  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4104139

River City Ready Mix, Inc. has $75K in proposed MSHA penalties and $373 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 2000
180
citations
93
significant & substantial
$75,151
proposed penalties
$74,778
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $373 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
35
inspections on record
436
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: 436 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

River City Ready Mix, Inc. has $75K in proposed MSHA penalties and $373 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.
$75K
proposed penalties
$75K
current assessed
$75K
paid to date
$373
outstanding
177 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
Of $5K in penalties contested before the Commission, $5K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2010-07-14.
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.
52.5%
significant & substantial
48.6%
high negligence or reckless
52.5%
reasonably likely or greater
69.5%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 1.1% low, 50.3% moderate, 48.6% high, 0.0% reckless.
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.
6 citations taken to the federal commission · 3% of citations on record
  • Settled 6 · 100%
100%
S&S designation survived the contest
Counts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.
of 4 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
0%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$826 proposed, $826 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 2009-11-25.
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.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
CENT20020002M Default Barbour 2002 $4K → $4K
CENT 2010-171M Settlement Lesnick 2011 $826 → $826
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. Elizabeth Martinez 2000 to 2000
  2. River City Ready Mix, Inc. 2000 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2011 1
2010 3
2009 4
2008 5
2007 5
2006 5
2005 4
2004 3
2003 3
2002 3
2001 4
2000 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

River City Ready Mix, Inc. sits in Bexar County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 0.6% 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.
Bexar County, Texas · Population 2,037,344
0.6%
Mining share of county employment
$70,571
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
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2011 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 984 2 0 2032.5
2010 Q2 667 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 1,328 1 0 753.0
2009 Q4 1,381 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 1,591 6 4 3771.2
2009 Q2 1,667 0 0 0.0
Show 34 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2009 Q1 1,620 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 1,514 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 1,629 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 2,173 3 2 1380.6
2008 Q1 1,514 28 13 18494.1
2007 Q4 1,480 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 1,551 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 1,827 2 0 1094.7
2007 Q1 2,043 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 2,223 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 2,327 4 3 1719.0
2006 Q2 1,565 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 1,679 8 5 4764.7
2005 Q3 2,106 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 2,767 9 6 3252.6
2005 Q1 1,625 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 1,120 2 0 1785.7
2004 Q3 1,430 3 3 2097.9
2004 Q2 1,476 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 1,548 5 4 3230.0
2003 Q4 1,569 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 1,620 6 4 3703.7
2003 Q2 1,432 21 6 14664.8
2003 Q1 1,658 4 0 2412.5
2002 Q4 1,800 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 1,599 3 1 1876.2
2002 Q2 1,638 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 1,008 20 8 19841.3
2001 Q3 1,677 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 40 1 0 25000.0
2001 Q1 2,560 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 2,560 14 7 5468.8
2000 Q2 0 0 0
2000 Q1 240 16 13 66666.7

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.