Salado Plant has $12K in proposed MSHA penalties and $7K outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2025
Latest incident
Nov 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2023
41
citations
8
significant & substantial
$11,603
proposed penalties
$4,333
paid to date
37% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $7,270 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2023
12
inspections on record
144
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: 144 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Salado Plant has $12K in proposed MSHA penalties and $7K 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.
$12K
proposed penalties
$12K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$7K
outstanding
32 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-04-15.
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
12,619
7
1
554.7
2025 Q3
13,600
0
0
0.0
2025 Q2
14,904
6
1
402.6
2025 Q1
12,820
2
1
156.0
2024 Q4
11,758
0
0
0.0
2024 Q3
10,027
0
0
0.0
2024 Q2
11,765
7
0
595.0
2024 Q1
13,493
0
0
0.0
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4
15,777
1
1
63.4
2023 Q3
14,994
0
0
0.0
2023 Q2
8,005
9
1
1124.3
2023 Q1
943
0
0
0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
1 on file
2025 · 1 incident
November 4, 2025TX · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techMACHINERY
Employee was diagnosed with a hairline fracture of the right foot with restrictions. This was caused by the employee foot bending when the crusher rotor rotated unexpectedly.
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