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Travelstead: 92 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by GMS Inc; David Shoup
Carlsbad, NM, Eddy County, NM  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 2902212

Travelstead has $22K in proposed MSHA penalties and $2K outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2010
Latest incident
Sep 2010
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2002
92
citations
23
significant & substantial
$21,926
proposed penalties
$19,890
paid to date
91% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $2,036 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See United Materials, LLP's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
48
inspections on record
528
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: 528 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Travelstead has $22K in proposed MSHA penalties and $2K 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.
$22K
proposed penalties
$22K
current assessed
$20K
paid to date
$2K
outstanding
86 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-03-24.
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.
25.0%
significant & substantial
7.6%
high negligence or reckless
25.0%
reasonably likely or greater
39.1%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 7.6% low, 84.8% moderate, 7.6% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, 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: 2024-09-25
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
7
samples
3
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz3
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg3
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (7)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2024-09-25 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 1.31 2.63 0.50 Dry Screen Plant Operator
2024-09-25 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.15 Front-end Loader Operator
2024-09-25 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2024-09-25 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Dump Operator
2019-05-29 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2007-04-18 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.46 1.69 0.27 Crusher Oper/Worker
2007-04-18 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 1.43 1.81 0.79 Crusher Oper/Worker
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.

Travelstead recorded 18.17 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2010.

Injury rate, 2010
ⓘ 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.
18.17
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 2.68 and the all-US-mining average was 3.20 cases per 100 workers.
In New Mexico, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 3.46 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.
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. Langford Tractor Work Llc 2001 to 2004
  2. Constructors Inc 2004 to 2015
  3. United Materials, LLP 2015 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 4
2025 6
2024 4
2023 4
2022 3
2021 8
2020 7
2019 5
2018 3
2015 2
2014 5
2011 10
2010 11
2009 5
2008 5
2007 6
2006 6
2005 3
2004 2
2003 1
2002 1
2001 1
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Travelstead sits in Eddy County, New Mexico, where the Census mining category is 15.0% 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.
Eddy County, New Mexico · Population 61,114
15.0%
Mining share of county employment
$79,605
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 3,097 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 3,064 7 0 2284.6
2025 Q4 4,049 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 4,778 16 4 3348.7
2025 Q2 5,388 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 3,207 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 3,682 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 2,572 0 0 0.0
Show 72 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 2,086 2 1 958.8
2023 Q4 2,631 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 3,989 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 2,259 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 1,614 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 2,672 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,787 2 0 1119.2
2022 Q1 1,396 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 2,805 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 5,642 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 2,413 5 1 2072.1
2020 Q4 333 1 0 3003.0
2020 Q3 1,274 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 4,561 2 1 438.5
2020 Q1 5,719 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 3,692 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,842 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 1,373 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 595 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 1,145 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 783 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 654 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 1,428 2 0 1400.6
2015 Q3 0 0 0
2015 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 896 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 6,458 2 0 309.7
2014 Q3 5,759 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 3,746 1 1 267.0
2014 Q1 1,126 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 3,530 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 5,465 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 5,977 2 1 334.6
2011 Q1 4,500 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 4,559 2 1 438.7
2010 Q3 5,078 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 8,892 3 2 337.4
2010 Q1 3,480 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 1,960 4 2 2040.8
2009 Q3 2,660 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 0 0 0
2009 Q1 1,760 8 4 4545.5
2008 Q4 2,795 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 2,600 6 0 2307.7
2008 Q2 4,200 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 3,600 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 2,900 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 3,077 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 5,346 3 1 561.2
2007 Q1 1,977 2 0 1011.6
2006 Q4 5,282 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 5,777 2 1 346.2
2006 Q2 4,875 3 0 615.4
2006 Q1 2,911 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 4,432 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 4,249 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 0 0 0
2005 Q1 0 0 0
2004 Q4 700 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 492 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 165 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 175 3 2 17142.9
2003 Q4 240 1 1 4166.7
2003 Q3 297 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 340 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 300 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 352 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 390 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 549 3 0 5464.5
2002 Q1 80 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 412 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 421 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2010 · 2 incidents

September 9, 2010 NM · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman POWERED HAULAGE
Constructors Inc · Struck by falling object

While moving the Finlay at the pit to a new section at the time of turning it a rock fell off the ledge of the feeder. The rock was 3" in diameter and hit him on the right shoulder. He rec. medical attention and Tramadol and Ibuprofen was prescribed.

September 9, 2010 NM · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman POWERED HAULAGE
Constructors Inc · Struck against a moving object

EE's lower back started hurting due to rock truck he was operating had no absorption or cushion in the seat. He hit a pothole and went up and down and felt something stretch in his back. He rec. medical attention.