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Section 14: 76 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Jobe Materials LP · Surface
Controlled by Jobeco Materials LLC
El Paso, El Paso County, TX  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4104548

Section 14 has $19K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 6 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
5
Years on record
2007–2026
Latest incident
May 2026
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2006
76
citations
17
significant & substantial
$18,668
proposed penalties
$16,225
paid to date
87% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $2,443 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Jobe Materials LP's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2006
54
inspections on record
814
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: 814 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Imminent-danger orders
ⓘ A Section 107(a) order removes miners from an area when an inspector finds an imminent danger. Each order is lifted once the condition is corrected, so this counts orders issued, not orders now in effect.
1
Section 107(a) orders
Most recent order: 2013-04-08.
On record since 2013.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.

Section 14 has $19K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 6 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.
$19K
proposed penalties
$16K
current assessed
$16K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
75 assessments are final orders; 6 contested dockets.
Of $6K in penalties contested before the Commission, $3K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-05-18.
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.
22.7%
significant & substantial
9.3%
high negligence or reckless
22.7%
reasonably likely or greater
53.3%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 16.0% low, 74.7% moderate, 9.3% 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.
9 citations taken to the federal commission · 12% of citations on record
  • Settled 7 · 78%
  • Vacated or withdrawn 2 · 22%
50%
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 6 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
58%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$6K proposed, $3K 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 2019-07-23.
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
CENT 2013-579M Settlement Lesnick 2014 $2K → $426
CENT 2010-520M Settlement Lesnick 2011 $2K → $1K
CENT 2011-461M Settlement Lesnick 2011 $745 → $224
CENT 2019-0307 Settlement Rae 2019 $595 → $595
CENT 2011-906M Settlement Lesnick 2011 $207 → $100
CENT 2013-202M Withdrawal Miller 2013 $100 → $0
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.
Health sampling
ⓘ A sample is a point in time compliance measurement, not an individual exposure history. These figures describe MSHA sampling records and do not establish causation or personal dose.

Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
ⓘ Many samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.

Last sampled: 2022-06-15, 4 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
30
samples
14
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz16
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg13
  • Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (30)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2022-06-15 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.58 Crusher Oper/Worker
2022-06-15 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.23 Front-end Loader Operator
2022-06-15 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.32 Belt Crew
2022-06-15 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Washer Operator
2021-02-03 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.65 1.1 0.59 Laborer, Bullgang
2021-02-03 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2017-01-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Dry Screen Plant Operator
2017-01-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2017-01-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2017-01-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2017-01-04 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.2 10 0.02 Laborer, Bullgang
2013-03-06 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2013-03-06 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2013-03-06 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.34 0.86 0.40 Crusher Oper/Worker
2011-03-24 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2011-03-24 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.13 1.07 0.12 Front-end Loader Operator
2011-03-24 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Sand Filler (Wet)
2009-03-24 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2009-03-24 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.17 1.11 0.15 Truck Driver
2009-03-24 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.15 1.31 0.11 Cleanup Man
2009-03-24 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.21 0.93 0.23 Utility Man
2008-05-14 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2008-05-14 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.19 0.87 0.22 Truck Driver
2008-05-14 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.21 0.94 0.22 Front-end Loader Operator
2007-11-28 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.32 0.58 0.55 Crusher Oper/Worker
2007-11-28 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.22 0.85 0.26 Crusher Oper/Worker
2006-06-07 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.5 0.99 0.51 Cleanup Man
2006-06-07 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2006-06-07 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.3 0.95 0.32 Crusher Oper/Worker
2006-06-07 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.54 0.86 0.63 Crusher Oper/Worker
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly. Metal/nonmetal contaminant figures come from MSHA's Personal Health Samples and Area Samples files (public record), updated weekly.

Section 14 recorded 4.83 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2025.

Injury rate, 2025
ⓘ This rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
4.83
total case rate
4.83
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.65 and the all-US-mining average was 1.97 cases per 100 workers.
In Texas, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.17 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2025 * 4.83 4.83 0.000
2024 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2023 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2022 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2021 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2020 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2019 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2018 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Ownership history
  1. Jobe Materials LP 2005 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 26
2025 20
2024 18
2023 16
2022 14
2021 14
2020 14
2019 14
2018 13
2017 13
2016 14
2015 12
2014 13
2013 18
2012 14
2011 12
2010 32
2009 48
2008 39
2007 20
2006 10
2005 5
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Section 14 sits in El Paso County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 0.8% 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.
El Paso County, Texas · Population 866,275
0.8%
Mining share of county employment
$58,859
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
2026 Q2 13,740 2 0 145.6
2026 Q1 12,448 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 12,217 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 10,788 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 9,715 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 8,711 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 10,681 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 10,967 0 0 0.0
Show 76 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 9,674 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 9,321 3 0 321.9
2023 Q4 8,716 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 9,355 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 10,354 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 8,064 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 8,341 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 8,792 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 8,145 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 6,687 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 7,623 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 7,935 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 6,484 1 0 154.2
2021 Q1 6,898 1 0 145.0
2020 Q4 7,886 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 8,370 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 8,427 1 0 118.7
2020 Q1 7,385 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 7,626 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 7,371 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 6,681 5 1 748.4
2019 Q1 6,859 2 0 291.6
2018 Q4 7,239 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 6,838 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 7,043 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 6,970 2 1 286.9
2017 Q4 7,123 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 7,180 1 1 139.3
2017 Q2 6,960 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 6,929 1 1 144.3
2016 Q4 7,917 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 9,974 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 7,221 3 1 415.5
2016 Q1 5,771 1 0 173.3
2015 Q4 6,138 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 5,738 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 5,329 1 0 187.7
2015 Q1 4,785 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 5,575 1 0 179.4
2014 Q3 5,858 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 6,796 1 0 147.1
2014 Q1 6,118 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 9,088 1 0 110.0
2013 Q3 9,389 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 10,101 4 1 396.0
2013 Q1 9,962 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 9,287 3 1 323.0
2012 Q3 8,912 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 8,576 3 0 349.8
2012 Q1 6,325 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 5,554 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 7,383 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 6,196 6 0 968.4
2011 Q1 6,282 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 8,451 2 2 236.7
2010 Q3 7,799 4 2 512.9
2010 Q2 28,997 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 26,923 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 27,871 5 0 179.4
2009 Q3 27,301 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 28,226 2 0 70.9
2009 Q1 33,833 1 1 29.6
2008 Q4 31,907 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 29,782 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 25,367 10 3 394.2
2008 Q1 21,732 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 24,596 2 0 81.3
2007 Q3 11,484 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 10,279 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 9,503 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 9,583 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 8,156 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 7,934 3 0 378.1
2006 Q1 6,248 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 3,770 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 1,814 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

5 on file

2026 · 1 incident

May 27, 2026 TX · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Jobe Materials LP · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee tripped on rocks

2025 · 1 incident

November 3, 2025 TX · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech OTHER
Jobe Materials LP · Bodily reaction, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was walking up stairs when they felt a sharp pain on calf.

2009 · 1 incident

February 28, 2009 TX · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Jobe Materials LP · Fall from machine

He was fixing machinery slipped and fell backward. He fell about 10 feet and landed on his heels. He injuried both heels, left knee and lower back.

2008 · 1 incident

January 8, 2008 TX · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Jobe Materials LP · Over-exertion in lifting objects

Employee lifted a barrel and felt pain to his umbilical area.

2007 · 1 incident

May 31, 2007 TX · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Jobe Materials LP · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Hydraulic hose spraying liquid, employee jumped back to avoid spray and landed on right knee.