Mining Incidents

Texan Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Mission, Hidalgo County, TX  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4105583

Texan Pit has $76K in proposed MSHA penalties and $21K outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2023
Latest incident
Jul 2023
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2021
77
citations
28
significant & substantial
$76,268
proposed penalties
$55,564
paid to date
73% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $20,704 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2021
16
inspections on record
257
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: 257 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Texan Pit has $76K in proposed MSHA penalties and $21K 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.
$76K
proposed penalties
$76K
current assessed
$56K
paid to date
$21K
outstanding
77 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-12-17.
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 9,399 10 1 1063.9
2025 Q3 11,603 2 0 172.4
2025 Q2 13,589 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 14,166 10 4 705.9
2024 Q4 18,499 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 19,890 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 24,752 3 2 121.2
2024 Q1 27,768 0 0 0.0
Show 10 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 30,810 5 1 162.3
2023 Q3 29,893 3 2 100.4
2023 Q2 23,383 5 4 213.8
2023 Q1 13,736 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 10,408 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 6,464 6 2 928.2
2022 Q2 5,840 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 5,600 24 9 4285.7
2021 Q4 3,360 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 180 9 3 50000.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2023 · 1 incident

July 19, 2023 TX · Metal/Non-Metal rotary bucket excavator operator MACHINERY
Filegonia Materials · Struck against a moving object

Excavator was driving on a dam road and the ground gave up.

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