Mining Incidents

Sand Plant Metal/Non-Metal

Taos Gravel Products · Facility
Controlled by Les Wilderman
Taos, Taos County, NM  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 2902432

Sand Plant has $6K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 4 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 2012
33
citations
8
significant & substantial
$6,437
proposed penalties
$5,697
paid to date
89% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $740 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2012
17
inspections on record
176
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: 176 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Sand Plant has $6K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 4 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.
$6K
proposed penalties
$6K
current assessed
$6K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
33 assessments are final orders; 4 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-12-18.
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 318 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 281 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 106 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 0 0 0
2024 Q4 268 1 0 3731.3
2024 Q3 338 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 273 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 287 0 0 0.0
Show 45 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 59 5 0 84745.8
2023 Q3 98 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 268 4 2 14925.4
2023 Q1 0 0 0
2022 Q4 140 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 17 2 1 117647.1
2022 Q2 62 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 95 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 58 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 168 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 151 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 80 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 79 1 0 12658.2
2020 Q3 293 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 164 1 0 6097.6
2020 Q1 108 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 37 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 221 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 82 2 1 24390.2
2019 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 540 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 600 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 266 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 26 5 3 192307.7
2017 Q4 302 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 256 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 12 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 335 2 0 5970.1
2016 Q4 57 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 470 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 163 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 239 2 0 8368.2
2015 Q4 310 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 479 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 171 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 229 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 162 3 1 18518.5
2014 Q3 138 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 92 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 208 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 621 2 0 3220.6
2013 Q3 630 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 313 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 0 0 0
2012 Q4 668 3 0 4491.0

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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The full compliance file on Sand Plant

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.