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: 343 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Stafford Plant has $19K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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.
$19K
proposed penalties
$18K
current assessed
$18K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
36 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $2K in penalties contested before the Commission, $362 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2009-06-24.
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.
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.
2citations taken to the federal commission · 6% of citations on record
Settled
2 · 100%
78%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$2K proposed, $362 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 A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record.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 2009-03-31.
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.
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: 2007-04-26, 19 years ago
3
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Respirable dust, <.1mg3
Show the individual readings (3)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2007-04-26
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Welder, etc.
2007-04-26
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Dragline Operator
2007-04-26
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Dry Screen Plant Operator
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.
Stafford Plant recorded 14.19 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2008.
Injury rate, 2008
ⓘ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.
14.19
total case rate
14.19
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 3.15 and the all-US-mining average was 3.61 cases per 100 workers.
In Texas, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.71 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
2008 *
14.19
14.19
0.000
2007 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2006 *
4.03
0.00
0.000
2005 *
8.01
0.00
0.000
2004 *
3.97
3.97
0.000
2003 *
3.71
3.71
0.000
2002 *
3.54
0.00
0.000
2001 *
3.42
3.42
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.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2009
18
2008
19
2007
21
2006
21
2005
21
2004
21
2003
23
2002
24
2001
26
2000
26
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Stafford Plant sits in Colorado County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 3.2% 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.
Colorado County, Texas · Population 20,736
3.2%
Mining share of county employment
$68,554
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
2009 Q3
8,300
0
0
0.0
2009 Q2
7,544
4
2
530.2
2009 Q1
9,152
2
0
218.5
2008 Q4
9,514
0
0
0.0
2008 Q3
10,762
9
1
836.3
2008 Q2
10,460
0
0
0.0
2008 Q1
11,535
0
0
0.0
2007 Q4
11,761
7
6
595.2
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2007 Q3
11,732
0
0
0.0
2007 Q2
12,569
3
0
238.7
2007 Q1
12,246
0
0
0.0
2006 Q4
11,423
0
0
0.0
2006 Q3
12,507
0
0
0.0
2006 Q2
12,571
0
0
0.0
2006 Q1
13,136
2
0
152.3
2005 Q4
11,585
0
0
0.0
2005 Q3
12,525
0
0
0.0
2005 Q2
13,061
0
0
0.0
2005 Q1
12,755
0
0
0.0
2004 Q4
11,720
0
0
0.0
2004 Q3
12,769
0
0
0.0
2004 Q2
13,123
0
0
0.0
2004 Q1
12,806
0
0
0.0
2003 Q4
12,113
0
0
0.0
2003 Q3
13,089
1
0
76.4
2003 Q2
14,213
2
0
140.7
2003 Q1
14,546
0
0
0.0
2002 Q4
13,024
0
0
0.0
2002 Q3
14,289
0
0
0.0
2002 Q2
15,438
0
0
0.0
2002 Q1
13,715
0
0
0.0
2001 Q4
13,129
0
0
0.0
2001 Q3
14,453
0
0
0.0
2001 Q2
14,854
4
0
269.3
2001 Q1
16,032
0
0
0.0
2000 Q4
15,409
0
0
0.0
2000 Q3
15,778
0
0
0.0
2000 Q2
15,812
0
0
0.0
2000 Q1
15,530
0
0
0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
20 on file
2008 · 3 incidents
January 29, 2008TX · Metal/Non-Metalcrane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, riggerSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
The employee was having to walk in deep mud while working in the field. He stepped in a hole and felt that he twisted his left knee while trying to get out.
January 3, 2008TX · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorHANDLING OF MATERIALS
The employee was picking up a field conveyor roller and putting it in the back of a pickup when he felt a very sharp pain in his right hip which caused him to have an acute lumbar sprain.
2006 · 1 incident
September 25, 2006TX · Metal/Non-Metalcrane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, riggerHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Injured employee was assisting in moving mats for scraper and a miscommunication between the IE and the dozer operator caused the operator to lower the pad which smushed the IE left little toe and resulted in a fracture.
2004 · 1 incident
October 12, 2004TX · Metal/Non-Metalfront-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operatorMACHINERY
Three employees were moving the 7400 dragline which is powered by a large power cable in which a Dozer is used to move while walking the dragline to the new location. The ground man was directing the dozer operator were to go when the cable was caught under some material and caused the cable to pop and struck the employee under the right knee.
EMPLOYEE CHANGING SCREEN. AS HE WAS LEAVING SCREEN DECK, CUT HIS LEG ON A PIECE OF METAL. DID NOT REPORT INJURY UNTIL 5-29-01. WENT TO DOCTOR ON 5-30-01, CUT WAS INFECTED.
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING UP AN EMBANKMENT TO CONVEYOR BELT LINE TO CHANGE A CONVEYOR IDLER WHEN HE FELT HIS LEFT KNEE GIVE WAY.
1991 · 3 incidents
September 23, 1991TX · Metal/Non-Metalcrane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, riggerHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Holnam Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)
EMPLOYEE WAS CHANGING BRAKE ABAND ON MARION 7400 DRAGLINE WHEN RIGHT HAND WAS CUAGHT BETWEEN BRAKE BAND AND FRAME, BRUISING AND CUTTING HIS HAND BETWEEN THUMB AND FIRST INDEX FINGER, REQUIRING 5 STITCHES.
August 7, 1991TX · Metal/Non-Metalprep plant foreman, supervisor, mill plant supervisor, kiln supervisorHANDLING OF MATERIALS
Holnam Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)
EMPLOYEE WAS CHANGING CONVEYOR ROLLER ON CONVEYOR BELT; FINGER WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN ROLLER AND FRAME, BRUISING AND LACERATING THIRD (RING) FINGER, LEFT HAND.
April 11, 1991TX · Metal/Non-Metalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
EMPL WAS HELPING CHANGE BUCKET TEETH AS HE WAS KNOCKING ONE OFF WITH SLEDGE HAMMER PIECE CHIPPED OFF HITTING HIM IN RIGHT LEG. INCISION WAS MADE TO REMOVE FOREIGN BODY.