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: 19 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Wash Plant 1 has $720 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.
$720
proposed penalties
$720
current assessed
$720
paid to date
$0
outstanding
6 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2019-09-03.
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 controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2020
8
2019
7
2018
5
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Wash Plant 1 sits in Ector County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 13.3% 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.
Ector County, Texas · Population 163,206
13.3%
Mining share of county employment
$71,031
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
2020 Q2
5,635
0
0
0.0
2020 Q1
5,307
0
0
0.0
2019 Q4
5,613
0
0
0.0
2019 Q3
2,606
4
1
1534.9
2019 Q2
5,414
0
0
0.0
2019 Q1
5,175
0
0
0.0
2018 Q4
4,560
0
0
0.0
2018 Q3
1
2
0
2000000.0
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2018 Q2
1,356
0
0
0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
3 on file
2019 · 1 incident
January 9, 2019TX · Metal/Non-Metalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerOTHER
An Employee was walking towards their car, the area was muddy causing them to slip. The employee tried to tighten and tense their body to keep themselves from falling, and started having stiffness. The following day, the employee states they started having pain in the left lower back.
September 19, 2018TX · Metal/Non-Metalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerSTEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT
The employee was walking servicing the plant and all of a sudden ee felt pain in lower back and into right leg. The employee stated at one point ee was bending and ee also had to climb up a rock pile which ee thinks may have contributed to the injury.