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Tinaja: 106 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Taos Gravel Products · Surface
Controlled by Joel M Perovich
Raton, Colfax County, NM  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 2900495

Tinaja has $27K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 7 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
13
Years on record
1992–2010
Latest incident
Mar 2010
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
106
citations
41
significant & substantial
$26,982
proposed penalties
$24,173
paid to date
90% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $2,809 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
57
inspections on record
662
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: 662 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Tinaja has $27K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 7 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.
$27K
proposed penalties
$24K
current assessed
$24K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
102 assessments are final orders; 7 contested dockets.
Of $12K in penalties contested before the Commission, $9K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-07-08.
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.
39.0%
significant & substantial
6.7%
high negligence or reckless
39.0%
reasonably likely or greater
74.3%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 13.3% low, 80.0% moderate, 6.7% high, 0.0% reckless.
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.
14 citations taken to the federal commission · 13% of citations on record
  • Settled 13 · 93%
  • Stood as issued 1 · 7%
43%
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 7 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
22%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$9K proposed, $7K 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 2016-12-21.
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.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
CENT 2011-1079M Settlement Lesnick 2011 $4K → $4K
CENT20010210M Settlement Manning 2001 $3K → $2K
CENT 2012-423M Default Lesnick 2012 $2K → $2K
CENT 2009-366M Settlement Lesnick 2009 $2K → $100
CENT 2010-26M Settlement Lesnick 2010 $846 → $600
CENT 2017-0137 Settlement Lesnick 2017 $438 → $228
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.
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: 2011-05-18, 15 years ago
5%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
31
samples
19
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz161 over
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg12
  • Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz3
Show the individual readings (31)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2004-07-22 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 2.63 1 2.63 Crusher Oper/Worker
2011-05-18 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2011-05-18 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2010-03-31 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.22 1.89 0.12 Front-end Loader Operator
2010-03-31 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Supervisor, Co. Official
2010-03-31 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2010-03-31 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.24 0.85 0.28 Front-end Loader Operator
2009-07-01 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.19 0.66 0.29 Cleanup Man
2009-07-01 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.12 0.64 0.19 Cleanup Man
2009-07-01 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Cleanup Man
2008-07-23 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2007-03-28 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.13 0.96 0.14 Front-end Loader Operator
2007-03-28 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2007-03-28 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2006-07-14 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2006-07-14 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.15 0.61 0.25 Supervisor, Co. Official
2006-07-14 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.2 0.61 0.33 Laborer, Bullgang
2006-07-14 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.26 0.68 0.38 Crusher Oper/Worker
2005-08-18 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2005-08-18 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.14 0.94 0.15 Laborer, Bullgang
2005-08-18 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.2 0.64 0.31 Laborer, Bullgang
2005-08-18 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Supervisor, Co. Official
2005-04-13 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.14 1.36 0.10 Crusher Oper/Worker
2005-04-13 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.25 0.82 0.30 Front-end Loader Operator
2005-04-13 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2005-04-13 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.13 0.98 0.13 Supervisor, Co. Official
2004-07-22 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.37 0.42 0.88 Supervisor, Co. Official
2004-07-22 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.51 0.53 0.96 Laborer, Bullgang
2000-08-16 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.44 10 0.04 Laborer, Bullgang
2000-08-16 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.34 10 0.03 Laborer, Bullgang
2000-08-16 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.33 10 0.03 Backhoe Operator
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.

Tinaja recorded 7.55 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2009.

Injury rate, 2009
ⓘ 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.
7.55
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 2.82 and the all-US-mining average was 3.36 cases per 100 workers.
In New Mexico, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.62 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2009 * 7.55 0.00 0.000
2008 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2006 * 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.
Ownership history
  1. Taos Gravel Products Inc 1950 to 1992
  2. Perovich Properties Inc 1992 to 2026
  3. Taos Gravel Products 2026 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 8
2025 5
2024 5
2023 6
2022 5
2021 6
2020 9
2019 5
2018 6
2017 0
2016 11
2015 10
2014 6
2013 5
2012 9
2011 9
2010 9
2009 12
2008 10
2007 8
2006 10
2005 6
2004 9
2003 11
2002 8
2001 6
2000 9
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Tinaja sits in Colfax County, New Mexico, where the Census mining category is 0.8% 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.
Colfax County, New Mexico · Population 12,336
0.8%
Mining share of county employment
$52,690
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
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2026 Q2 1,093 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 2,859 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 1,258 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 2,547 1 0 392.6
2025 Q2 82 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 32 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 98 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 39 0 0 0.0
Show 95 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 743 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 184 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 1,563 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 2,288 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 394 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 119 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 1,474 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 50 1 0 20000.0
2022 Q2 1,606 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 62 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 223 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 259 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 543 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 711 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 664 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 2,447 1 0 408.7
2020 Q2 3,153 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 3,787 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 1,928 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,011 1 0 989.1
2019 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 0 0 0
2018 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 346 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 3,717 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 0 0 0
2017 Q2 0 0 0
2017 Q1 0 0 0
2016 Q4 2,753 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 3,287 5 0 1521.1
2016 Q2 2,352 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 5,055 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 6,001 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 776 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 2,502 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 2,155 5 2 2320.2
2014 Q3 2,323 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 1,165 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 0 0 0
2013 Q4 514 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 0 0 0
2013 Q2 2,512 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 3,637 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 2,380 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 5,322 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 4,492 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 5,327 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 4,453 2 2 449.1
2011 Q3 1,111 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 3,423 2 1 584.3
2011 Q1 1,406 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 4,564 2 0 438.2
2010 Q3 386 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 2,296 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 3,447 4 0 1160.4
2009 Q4 6,877 5 1 727.1
2009 Q3 7,236 3 1 414.6
2009 Q2 7,967 6 0 753.1
2009 Q1 4,407 2 1 453.8
2008 Q4 6,261 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 4,035 2 0 495.7
2008 Q2 7,102 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 4,399 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 6,058 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 2,643 1 0 378.4
2007 Q2 5,093 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 1,466 4 0 2728.5
2006 Q4 4,414 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 6,240 6 3 961.5
2006 Q2 6,346 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 3,240 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 2,625 3 0 1142.9
2005 Q3 3,652 2 1 547.6
2005 Q2 3,890 3 1 771.2
2005 Q1 332 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 2,496 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 7,077 6 4 847.8
2004 Q2 4,010 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 3,996 4 3 1001.0
2003 Q4 4,025 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 6,049 6 3 991.9
2003 Q2 5,821 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 3,200 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 4,142 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 4,800 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 4,446 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 2,856 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 3,316 1 0 301.6
2001 Q3 4,446 2 1 449.8
2001 Q2 3,912 1 0 255.6
2001 Q1 0 0 0
2000 Q4 2,728 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 5,798 22 14 3794.4
2000 Q2 5,301 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 4,682 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

13 on file

2010 · 1 incident

March 23, 2010 NM · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Perovich Properties Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Cutting metal strap with chopsaw, strap slipped, sawblade cut R Thumb.28

2009 · 1 incident

January 6, 2009 NM · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer MACHINERY
Perovich Properties Inc · Struck against a moving object

Bulldozer removing snow on slight sidehill, lost traction on ice sliding 40' sideways, through berm. Falling 14' into pit, bulldozer landed on its side. Machine minimal damage, one broken window. Operator minimal bruising, contusions was wearing seatbelt. Operator sent to local emergency room to be checked. Prescribed Lortab as necessary.

2004 · 1 incident

May 17, 2004 NM · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Perovich Properties Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Ee was unfamiliar with this maintenance procedure, minimal damage, no impairment.

2002 · 1 incident

September 5, 2002 NM · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Perovich Properties Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE SHOVELING SAND, COMPLAINED OF DISCOMFORT BETWEEN SHOULDER BLADES, MUSCLE STRAIN.

1999 · 3 incidents

April 26, 1999 NM · Metal/Non-Metal crane operator, mobile equipment operator (meo), dragline operator, dropball operator, rigger POWERED HAULAGE
Perovich Properties Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING THE BOTTOM SCREEN ON THE JCI BY CLIMBING IN ON UNDER BELT. HE MOTIONED TO ANOTHER EMPLOYEE, THE SIGNAL WAS MISUNDERSTOOD, THE BELT WAS STARTED WITH EMPLOYEE ON THE BEL T. HE WAS CARRIED AND PINNED UNDER THE BRACE.

April 8, 1999 NM · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman MACHINERY
Perovich Properties Inc · Flash burns (welding)

CRUSHING OPERATION WAS DOWN EE S PERFORMING MAINTENANCE, EE HOLDING STEEL FOR WELDER NEGLECTED TO AVERT EYES AND WAS FLASH BURNED.

1998 · 2 incidents

December 22, 1998 NM · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Perovich Properties Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

USING PRYBAR, PRYBAR SLIPPED STRIKING LEFT WRIST.

May 9, 1998 NM · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman MACHINERY
Perovich Properties Inc · Struck by falling object

WHILE FOLDING PROTEL STACKER FOR TRANSPORT, THE PIVOTING ANCHOR OF CONVEYOR WAS BEING REMOVED [LIFTED AT THE TAIL SECTION OF CONVEYOR 4" OUT OF DIRT W/ CRANE], WHEN PIN REMOVED, PORTION OF PIV ITING PLATE DROPPED, EE'S FOOT WAS UNDERNEATH.

1995 · 1 incident

May 30, 1995 NM · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Perovich Properties Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

LOOSENED BRAKE ON CRUSHER CONE,HANDLE STRUCK WRIST.

1994 · 1 incident

July 17, 1994 NM · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Perovich Properties Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS SHOVELING UNDER CONVEYOR BELT, HURT HIS BACK.

1993 · 1 incident

May 25, 1993 NM · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Perovich Properties Inc · Fall onto or against objects

EMPLOYEE WAS TURNING THE CRUSHER FEEDER AND FELL DOWN SLOPE TO ROCK PILE.

1992 · 1 incident

July 30, 1992 NM · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Perovich Properties Inc · Struck by falling object

54736YEE WAS CLEANING GRIZZLIES ON CRUSHER AND ALLEGEDLY A ROCK APPROX. 3" IN DIAMETER FELL OFF THE FEEDER AND HIT EMPLOYEE IN BACK OF HEAD. FOREMAN WENT TO LOOK AT THE SITE OF THE ACCIDENT, B 43049D NOT FIND A ROCK IN THAT AREA. EMPLOYEE RECEIVED A SMALL LUMP ON HEAD AND COMPLAINED OF DIZZINESS AND HEADACHE.