Mining Incidents

Tasitas Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Doug Howland
Laredo, Webb County, TX  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4103604

Tasitas has $11K 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 2000
55
citations
20
significant & substantial
$10,868
proposed penalties
$10,868
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
30
inspections on record
333
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: 333 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Tasitas has $11K 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.
$11K
proposed penalties
$11K
current assessed
$11K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
55 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2011-04-27.
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
2011 Q1 2,456 2 0 814.3
2010 Q4 2,948 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 3,190 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 3,210 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 2,940 1 0 340.1
2009 Q4 2,540 2 2 787.4
2009 Q3 2,772 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 2,016 2 1 992.1
Show 37 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2009 Q1 3,068 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 3,240 2 1 617.3
2008 Q3 4,203 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 4,360 4 1 917.4
2008 Q1 4,230 4 1 945.6
2007 Q4 3,870 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 4,140 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 3,220 5 2 1552.8
2007 Q1 3,890 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 3,520 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 3,690 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 4,520 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 4,460 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 4,520 4 0 885.0
2005 Q3 3,280 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 3,360 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 3,210 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 4,752 2 0 420.9
2004 Q3 3,300 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 3,210 4 3 1246.1
2004 Q1 3,040 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 2,940 3 3 1020.4
2003 Q3 3,060 3 0 980.4
2003 Q2 3,140 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 3,220 2 0 621.1
2002 Q4 2,710 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 2,890 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 3,570 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 3,610 5 1 1385.0
2001 Q4 3,210 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 3,520 1 0 284.1
2001 Q2 3,450 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 3,390 7 4 2064.9
2000 Q4 3,220 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 3,480 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 3,650 1 1 274.0
2000 Q1 3,590 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 Tasitas

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.