Mining Incidents

Sweatt Bar 5 pit Metal/Non-Metal

Carlsbad, Eddy County, NM  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 2902471

Sweatt Bar 5 pit has $13K 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 2018
51
citations
7
significant & substantial
$12,625
proposed penalties
$12,625
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2018
22
inspections on record
201
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: 201 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Sweatt Bar 5 pit has $13K 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.
$13K
proposed penalties
$13K
current assessed
$13K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
48 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-11-19.
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 9,653 8 1 828.8
2025 Q3 10,387 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 9,421 7 1 743.0
2025 Q1 9,889 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 8,935 9 2 1007.3
2024 Q3 8,008 6 1 749.3
2024 Q2 8,048 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 8,513 5 0 587.3
Show 27 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 8,765 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 10,931 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 8,412 1 0 118.9
2023 Q1 8,631 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 3,622 1 0 276.1
2022 Q3 4,129 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 4,275 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 3,780 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 6,462 2 0 309.5
2021 Q3 5,670 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 5,544 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 4,170 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 3,472 3 1 864.1
2020 Q3 1,029 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 1,498 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 1,522 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 1,810 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 425 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 2,200 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 1,290 3 1 2325.6
2018 Q4 1,262 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 993 6 0 6042.3
2018 Q2 542 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 1,565 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 383 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 1,173 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 1,680 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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