Mining Incidents

Thomaston Plant Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Brett Lappe
Thomaston, De Witt County, TX  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4105541

Thomaston Plant has $13K in proposed MSHA penalties and $8K 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 2021
36
citations
12
significant & substantial
$12,667
proposed penalties
$4,577
paid to date
36% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $8,090 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2021
13
inspections on record
117
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: 117 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Thomaston Plant has $13K in proposed MSHA penalties and $8K 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
$5K
paid to date
$8K
outstanding
36 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-12-10.
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 4,465 7 0 1567.7
2025 Q3 4,887 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 4,438 2 2 450.7
2025 Q1 4,284 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 3,254 12 5 3687.8
2024 Q3 1,763 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 837 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 884 0 0 0.0
Show 9 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q1 2,299 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 2,464 8 3 3246.8
2022 Q3 2,156 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 2,446 1 1 408.8
2022 Q1 2,101 1 0 476.0
2021 Q4 2,814 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 2,439 5 1 2050.0
2021 Q2 2,418 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1,029 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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