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: 219 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
VESUVIUS has $6K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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
$6K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
36 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2009-02-10.
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.
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: 2003-03-25, 23 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
5
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz4
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (5)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2003-03-25
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
1.81
3.32
0.55
Bagging Operator
2003-03-25
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.74
Bagging Operator
2003-03-25
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.54
Bagging Operator
2003-03-25
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.85
Front-end Loader Operator
2003-03-25
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
2.49
Bagging 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.
VESUVIUS recorded 6.48 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2008.
Injury rate, 2008
ⓘ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.
6.48
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 3.15 and the all-US-mining average was 3.61 cases per 100 workers.
In Texas, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.71 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
2008 *
6.48
0.00
0.000
2007 *
6.02
6.02
0.000
2006 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2005 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2004 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2003 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2002 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2001 *
4.02
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
2009
13
2008
16
2007
21
2006
20
2005
21
2004
22
2003
23
2002
24
2001
24
2000
24
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
VESUVIUS sits in Cameron County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 0.7% 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.
Cameron County, Texas · Population 423,192
0.7%
Mining share of county employment
$51,334
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
2009 Q2
7,352
0
0
0.0
2009 Q1
5,853
2
0
341.7
2008 Q4
6,685
0
0
0.0
2008 Q3
8,174
0
0
0.0
2008 Q2
8,351
0
0
0.0
2008 Q1
7,646
1
0
130.8
2007 Q4
6,580
4
2
607.9
2007 Q3
7,777
0
0
0.0
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2007 Q2
9,439
0
0
0.0
2007 Q1
9,439
1
0
105.9
2006 Q4
7,092
0
0
0.0
2006 Q3
7,778
0
0
0.0
2006 Q2
9,040
7
3
774.3
2006 Q1
11,450
0
0
0.0
2005 Q4
9,619
0
0
0.0
2005 Q3
10,189
0
0
0.0
2005 Q2
11,083
0
0
0.0
2005 Q1
10,714
2
1
186.7
2004 Q4
9,716
0
0
0.0
2004 Q3
9,975
0
0
0.0
2004 Q2
13,151
2
0
152.1
2004 Q1
9,208
2
0
217.2
2003 Q4
10,107
0
0
0.0
2003 Q3
12,184
1
1
82.1
2003 Q2
8,937
0
0
0.0
2003 Q1
8,717
3
1
344.2
2002 Q4
11,264
0
0
0.0
2002 Q3
12,506
0
0
0.0
2002 Q2
13,550
0
0
0.0
2002 Q1
12,097
0
0
0.0
2001 Q4
13,639
0
0
0.0
2001 Q3
12,049
0
0
0.0
2001 Q2
12,479
7
3
560.9
2001 Q1
11,527
0
0
0.0
2000 Q4
11,543
0
0
0.0
2000 Q3
12,327
0
0
0.0
2000 Q2
13,248
4
2
301.9
2000 Q1
11,862
0
0
0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
15 on file
2009 · 1 incident
June 4, 2009TX · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorHANDLING OF MATERIALS
While attempting to catch and prevent a bag of material handled from failing in moving it from a pallet into the blender EE sprined his it middle finger
2008 · 1 incident
April 29, 2008TX · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanHANDLING OF MATERIALS
Vesuvius Usa Corp. · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Dpt. SRP Crusher M-2 Employees changing hammers: Employee was pulling belt to adjust hammers and he got his ring finger right hand caught between the pulley and belts as they were manually rolling the equipment.
2004 · 1 incident
December 8, 2004TX · Metal/Non-Metalclerk, timekeeper, office worker, director of salesPOWERED HAULAGE
WELDER WAS WORKING ON A PIECE OF EQUIPMENT IN THE YARD. A TRUCK THAT HAD JUST DELIVERED SUPPLIES BACKED INTO THE EQUIPMENT WHEN TURNING AROUND. THE EQUIPMENT TRUCK THE WELDER IN THE HEAD.
1998 · 2 incidents
October 7, 1998TX · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanHANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
EE WAS WORKING THE QC LAB AND WAS TO KEEP A PNEUMATIC TRUCK LOAD OF MATERIAL MOVING. HE REPORTS THAT HE WAS WINGING A HAMMER TO LOOSEN THE MATERIAL WHEN HE FELT A CATCH IN HIS BACK. THERE WERE NO WITNESSES.
March 31, 1998TX · Metal/Non-Metalmine manager, mine foreman, mine ownerHANDLING OF MATERIALS
EE WORKING WITH 2 OTHER EES CLIMBED UPON EQUIPMENT TO HELP DO REPAIRS. HE FELL DUE TO POOR FOOTING FOR A DISTANCE OF APPROXIMATELY 6'. HE WAS BRUISED BY THE EQUIPMENT AS HE FELL.
April 15, 1997TX · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanPOWERED HAULAGE