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: 595 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Tejas Quarry has $54K in proposed MSHA penalties and $6K outstanding across 3 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.
$54K
proposed penalties
$54K
current assessed
$48K
paid to date
$6K
outstanding
96 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
Of $949 in penalties contested before the Commission, $731 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-03-17.
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.
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.
9citations taken to the federal commission · 9% of citations on record
Settled
5 · 56%
Vacated or withdrawn
1 · 11%
Still open
3 · 33%
0%
S&S designation survived the contest
ⓘCounts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.
of 1 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
23%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$949 proposed, $731 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 A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record.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 2026-05-12.
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: 2025-09-16
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
16
samples
3
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Respirable dust, <.1mg8
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz5
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz2
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (16)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2025-09-16
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Screen/Scalper Operator
2025-09-16
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
2.26
Cleanup Man
2025-09-16
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.59
1.82
0.32
Cleanup Man
2025-09-16
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.18
Crusher Oper/Worker
2022-02-23
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.18
10
0.02
Utility Man
2022-02-23
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Utility Man
2022-02-23
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.2
10
0.02
Utility Man
2022-02-23
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Utility Man
2020-08-19
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Cleanup Man
2020-08-19
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.44
Cleanup Man
2020-08-19
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.35
Cleanup Man
2020-08-19
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.87
Bobcat Operator
2017-02-28
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Crusher Oper/Worker
2017-02-28
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2017-02-28
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2017-02-28
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Cleanup Man
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.
Tejas Quarry recorded 1.11 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2025.
Injury rate, 2025
ⓘ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.
1.11
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.65 and the all-US-mining average was 1.97 cases per 100 workers.
In Texas, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.17 cases per 100 workers that year.
Year
total case rate
days-away
fatal
2025
1.11
0.00
0.000
2024
1.60
0.00
0.000
2023
0.00
0.00
0.000
2022 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2021 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2020 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2019 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2018 *
0.00
0.00
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
2026
78
2025
62
2024
30
2023
30
2022
31
2021
32
2020
20
2019
16
2018
13
2017
12
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Tejas Quarry sits in Comal County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 1.0% 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.
Comal County, Texas · Population 174,552
1.0%
Mining share of county employment
$99,015
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
Employee was walking around secondary area when they slipped falling forward. They stated that when they were falling hard hat fell off and strike their head. They had a open wound on their head and was taking to the urgent clinic for further evaluation.
Excavator was working to bring down boulders from top deck of mud-cell #1 of all the fresh shot and boulders. EE came down to the bottom and tried pulling boulders. The boulder was in back and sloughed off and rolled down into cab. breaking the glass.
Employee was on a 988 loader cleaning in Secondary, not being aware of the surroundings. Employee hit the Transformer Electrical box with the bucket. No injuries/illness.
The plant loader loading one of our contractors haul truck had a big rock on the edge of the bucket. When EE went to dump the bucket into the bed of the haul truck, the big rock fell and landed on hydraulic cap and two steps on the walkway damaging the steps and hydraulic cap.
August 22, 2024TX · Metal/Non-Metalfront-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operatorPOWERED HAULAGE
EE hot the drill on the left side corner. At the time of accident there were no injuries and EE did not claim any illness. Three days after the accident EE called about their back hurting. EE then went to the doctors and claimed workers compensation and they declined it.