Mining Incidents

Stone's Unlimited Inc.: 32 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Stone's Unlimited Inc. · Surface
Controlled by Benny Alverez Jr
Salado, Bell County, TX  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4104324

Stone's Unlimited Inc. has $14K in proposed MSHA penalties and $13K outstanding across 1 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 2002
32
citations
10
significant & substantial
$13,700
proposed penalties
$1,036
paid to date
8% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $12,664 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2002
17
inspections on record
137
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: 137 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Stone's Unlimited Inc. has $14K in proposed MSHA penalties and $13K 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.
$14K
proposed penalties
$14K
current assessed
$1K
paid to date
$13K
outstanding
30 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $769 in penalties contested before the Commission, $615 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2005-08-17.
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.
33.3%
significant & substantial
16.7%
high negligence or reckless
33.3%
reasonably likely or greater
46.7%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 83.3% moderate, 16.7% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
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
CENT20030196M Settlement Zielinski 2003 $769 → $615
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. Stone's Unlimited Inc. 2001 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2005 1
2004 7
2003 9
2002 10
2001 11
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Stone's Unlimited Inc. sits in Bell County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 0.7% 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.
Bell County, Texas · Population 379,811
0.7%
Mining share of county employment
$66,051
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
2005 Q2 360 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 2,168 2 0 922.5
2004 Q3 2,076 10 2 4817.0
2004 Q2 4,593 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 4,397 7 2 1592.0
2003 Q4 5,207 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 5,098 1 1 196.2
2003 Q2 4,808 0 0 0.0
Show 5 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2003 Q1 4,148 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 5,454 2 2 366.7
2002 Q3 4,983 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 4,959 1 0 201.7
2001 Q4 2,993 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.