Mining Incidents

Spur Pit #3 Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Sterling L Miller
Big Spring, Borden County, TX  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4105401

Spur Pit #3 has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 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 2019
27
citations
5
significant & substantial
$4,787
proposed penalties
$4,787
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2019
13
inspections on record
148
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: 148 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Spur Pit #3 has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 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.
$5K
proposed penalties
$5K
current assessed
$5K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
27 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-07-09.
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 1,433 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 1,534 1 0 651.9
2025 Q2 2,889 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 3,398 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 2,698 1 0 370.6
2024 Q3 4,216 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 1,958 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 699 2 0 2861.2
Show 20 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 1,142 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 899 3 0 3337.0
2023 Q2 2,554 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 2,172 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 2,600 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 3,305 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 2,336 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 2,145 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1,026 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,429 6 2 4198.7
2021 Q2 2,592 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1,262 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 1,886 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1,133 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 2,263 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 2,418 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 4,471 5 0 1118.3
2019 Q3 4,717 9 3 1908.0
2019 Q2 2,502 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 850 0 0 0.0

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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