Mining Incidents

Twin Creek Mine: 33 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Dixie Crystal Co. · Surface
Controlled by Bob James Fecho
Mount Ida, Montgomery County, AR  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 0301859

Twin Creek Mine has $6K 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
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
33
citations
6
significant & substantial
$5,824
proposed penalties
$3,375
paid to date
58% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $2,449 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
15
inspections on record
193
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: 193 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Twin Creek Mine has $6K 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.
$6K
proposed penalties
$6K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$2K
outstanding
31 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-11-06.
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.
19.4%
significant & substantial
45.2%
high negligence or reckless
19.4%
reasonably likely or greater
19.4%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 54.8% moderate, 45.2% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. Crystal Hills Mining Company 2001 to 2003
  2. Twin Creek Mine 2003 to 2014
  3. Dixie Crystal Co. 2014 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2025 2
2024 3
2023 2
2022 2
2007 3
2006 1
2005 4
2004 3
2003 3
2002 0
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Twin Creek Mine sits in Montgomery County, Arkansas, where the Census mining category is 0.1% 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.
Montgomery County, Arkansas · Population 8,571
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$49,015
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
2025 Q4 1,024 3 0 2929.7
2025 Q3 957 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 315 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 213 3 0 14084.5
2024 Q4 342 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 645 7 2 10852.7
2024 Q1 425 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 925 0 0 0.0
Show 23 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q3 1,036 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 386 9 1 23316.1
2023 Q1 1,145 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 785 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,221 5 1 4095.0
2022 Q2 1,024 2 2 1953.1
2007 Q1 52 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 0 0 0
2006 Q3 0 0 0
2006 Q2 0 0 0
2006 Q1 164 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 110 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 300 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 75 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 245 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 210 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 180 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 156 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 802 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 144 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 0 0 0
2002 Q2 0 0 0
2002 Q1 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.