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: 340 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Tolar Mine has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 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.
$5K
proposed penalties
$5K
current assessed
$5K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
28 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
Of $741 in penalties contested before the Commission, $151 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-11-14.
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.
4citations taken to the federal commission · 14% of citations on record
Settled
1 · 25%
Vacated or withdrawn
3 · 75%
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 Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.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%
80%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$741 proposed, $151 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 A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record.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 2025-09-04.
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: 2019-12-18, 6 years ago
5
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Respirable dust, <.1mg4
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (5)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2019-12-18
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Electrician
2019-12-18
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Mechanic
2018-12-19
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Washer Operator
2018-12-19
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.15
Front-end Loader Operator
2018-12-19
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Lab Technician
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.
Tolar Mine recorded 0.00 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.
0.00
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.
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
2025 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2024 *
7.63
7.63
0.000
2023 *
4.18
0.00
0.000
2022 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2019
0.00
0.00
0.000
2018
1.72
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
9
2025
10
2024
11
2023
21
2022
18
2021
9
2020
9
2019
51
2018
51
2017
40
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Tolar Mine sits in Hood County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 3.6% 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.
Hood County, Texas · Population 64,198
3.6%
Mining share of county employment
$86,802
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
2,503
0
0
0.0
2026 Q1
6,005
0
0
0.0
2025 Q4
5,748
1
0
174.0
2025 Q3
4,527
0
0
0.0
2025 Q2
5,336
1
0
187.4
2025 Q1
6,915
3
0
433.8
2024 Q4
5,706
0
0
0.0
2024 Q3
6,120
1
0
163.4
Show 24 earlier quartersHide earlier quarters
Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2
6,468
0
0
0.0
2024 Q1
7,925
5
0
630.9
2023 Q4
10,247
0
0
0.0
2023 Q3
10,713
1
0
93.3
2023 Q2
13,493
0
0
0.0
2023 Q1
13,389
1
0
74.7
2022 Q4
14,634
0
0
0.0
2022 Q3
11,430
0
0
0.0
2022 Q2
10,861
0
0
0.0
2022 Q1
9,520
1
0
105.0
2021 Q4
10,465
0
0
0.0
2021 Q3
2,595
2
0
770.7
2021 Q2
150
0
0
0.0
2020 Q2
1,150
2
1
1739.1
2020 Q1
9,579
0
0
0.0
2019 Q4
23,519
2
0
85.0
2019 Q3
30,149
3
1
99.5
2019 Q2
24,026
0
0
0.0
2019 Q1
31,503
0
0
0.0
2018 Q4
28,644
2
1
69.8
2018 Q3
31,988
0
0
0.0
2018 Q2
25,761
0
0
0.0
2018 Q1
29,687
3
0
101.1
2017 Q4
23,913
0
0
0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
5 on file
2024 · 1 incident
August 28, 2024TX · Metal/Non-Metalmine manager, mine foreman, mine ownerHANDLING OF MATERIALS
Tolar Mine, LLC · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects
Employee was stepping into a Bulldozer when the injury occurred. While pulling self up into the cab of the dozer, the employee felt a pop in right arm. The employee went to get the arm checked out the next day. On 9/3/24, employee was able to get an MRI and this indicated a tear of the right bicep tendon.
Vista employee was picking up debris (PVC Pipe) at the pit location when one end of the pipe snapped and struck the employee in the upper right lip requiring 5 stitches resulting in a reportable injury. Employee was able to return to work without restrictions.
Employee was trying to connect a line with hydrated lime flowing through it. Employee failed to close the valve to stop the flow of material, which caused hydrated lime splash the employee in eye.
January 5, 2020TX · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorMACHINERY
Employee was retracting the chain on an overhead hoist when the chain snagged. The chain popped free causing the hook to strike the employee in the face causing lacerations to the nose and nasal fractures.
2018 · 1 incident
January 13, 2018TX · Metal/Non-Metalfront-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operatorSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
ON 01/13/2018, EE was walking to mobile equipment and right leg became stuck in mud up to about shin. EE was offered professional medical treatment and declined. Instead treated leg with ice (first aid). EE requested professional medical treatment and was treated on 02/26/2018. EE was assigned restrictions by Medical.