Mining Incidents

Steele Ranch Metal/Non-Metal

Crushin It, LLC · Surface
Fort Sumner, De Baca County, NM  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 2902458

Steele Ranch has $6K in proposed MSHA penalties and $726 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 2017
31
citations
4
significant & substantial
$6,346
proposed penalties
$5,620
paid to date
89% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $726 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2017
14
inspections on record
145
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: 145 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Steele Ranch has $6K in proposed MSHA penalties and $726 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.
$6K
proposed penalties
$6K
current assessed
$6K
paid to date
$726
outstanding
31 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-01-22.
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 1,432 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 1,458 2 0 1371.7
2025 Q2 1,500 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 1,689 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 991 2 0 2018.2
2024 Q3 617 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 345 1 0 2898.6
2024 Q1 425 0 0 0.0
Show 23 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 364 1 0 2747.3
2023 Q3 319 3 0 9404.4
2023 Q2 353 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 463 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 270 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 535 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 278 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 233 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 76 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 79 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 161 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 455 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 501 3 1 5988.0
2020 Q1 463 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 272 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 369 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 37 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 0 0 0
2018 Q3 336 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 138 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 0 0 0
2017 Q4 201 2 0 9950.2
2017 Q3 392 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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The full compliance file on Steele Ranch

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.