Mining Incidents

Topaz Mine Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Mastec Inc
mesquite, Clark County, NV  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 2602440

Topaz Mine has $47K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1 outstanding across 1 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 2001
183
citations
34
significant & substantial
$47,398
proposed penalties
$44,293
paid to date
93% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $3,105 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
64
inspections on record
882
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: 882 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Topaz Mine has $47K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1 outstanding across 1 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.
$47K
proposed penalties
$44K
current assessed
$44K
paid to date
$1
outstanding
181 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-07-18.
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 3,570 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 3,962 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 4,821 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 3,306 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 5,026 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 4,456 1 0 224.4
2024 Q2 4,043 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 2,672 0 0 0.0
Show 88 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 3,638 2 0 549.8
2023 Q3 4,170 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 3,151 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 4,636 2 2 431.4
2022 Q4 4,983 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 5,240 2 0 381.7
2022 Q2 3,624 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 3,851 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 5,540 3 1 541.5
2021 Q3 5,001 3 0 599.9
2021 Q2 5,937 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 4,188 4 0 955.1
2020 Q4 7,874 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 5,051 2 0 396.0
2020 Q2 3,579 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 3,333 1 0 300.0
2019 Q4 2,823 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,971 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 1,739 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 1,531 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 1,801 2 0 1110.5
2018 Q3 2,470 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 1,509 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 1,856 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 2,136 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 2,136 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 868 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 1,926 2 0 1038.4
2016 Q4 759 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 1,097 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 1,917 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 1,134 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 1,592 8 1 5025.1
2015 Q3 1,279 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 960 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 591 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 1,124 6 0 5338.1
2014 Q3 2,159 13 5 6021.3
2014 Q2 958 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 2,597 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 1,683 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 2,562 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 1,010 3 0 2970.3
2013 Q1 3,594 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 2,269 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 1,471 1 1 679.8
2012 Q2 3,672 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 1,068 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 948 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 2,164 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 2,208 12 1 5434.8
2011 Q1 1,555 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 3,687 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 3,197 5 1 1564.0
2010 Q2 1,664 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 1,365 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 1,960 2 1 1020.4
2009 Q3 2,551 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 2,667 5 1 1874.8
2009 Q1 3,055 9 1 2946.0
2008 Q4 500 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 6,636 9 0 1356.2
2008 Q1 6,668 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 9,759 8 2 819.8
2007 Q3 9,524 4 0 420.0
2007 Q2 9,577 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 7,637 8 1 1047.5
2006 Q2 5,582 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 4,074 2 0 490.9
2005 Q3 3,126 4 1 1279.6
2005 Q2 4,219 9 1 2133.2
2005 Q1 4,294 7 1 1630.2
2004 Q4 4,093 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 3,403 6 1 1763.2
2004 Q1 3,908 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 3,645 23 8 6310.0
2003 Q3 4,025 3 2 745.3
2003 Q2 1,455 3 1 2061.9
2003 Q1 1,588 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 3,105 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 2,525 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 2,222 1 0 450.0
2002 Q1 1,944 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 5,093 2 1 392.7
2001 Q3 4,216 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 1,360 2 0 1470.6
2001 Q1 1,677 1 0 596.3
2000 Q4 997 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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The full compliance file on Topaz Mine

A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.