Mining Incidents

Waterflow Pit Metal/Non-Metal

SWBB, Inc. · Surface
Controlled by Thomas Link
Farmington, San Juan County, NM  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 2902425

Waterflow Pit has $16K in proposed MSHA penalties and $3K 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 2012
76
citations
17
significant & substantial
$16,499
proposed penalties
$13,024
paid to date
79% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $3,475 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2012
32
inspections on record
468
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: 468 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Waterflow Pit has $16K in proposed MSHA penalties and $3K 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.
$16K
proposed penalties
$16K
current assessed
$13K
paid to date
$3K
outstanding
74 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-04-30.
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 1,208 1 0 827.8
2025 Q3 1,020 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 1,297 2 0 1542.0
2025 Q1 1,816 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 1,159 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 921 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 1,328 5 1 3765.1
2024 Q1 1,383 0 0 0.0
Show 45 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 1,394 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 1,392 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 1,428 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,412 3 0 2124.6
2022 Q2 1,110 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 1,050 1 0 952.4
2021 Q4 1,002 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,016 8 0 7874.0
2021 Q2 1,109 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1,024 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 1,246 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1,326 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 1,158 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 332 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 1,096 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 668 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 1,024 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 1,089 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 1,079 7 2 6487.5
2018 Q3 834 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 1,126 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 1,077 4 0 3714.0
2017 Q4 1,083 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 1,028 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 1,522 3 0 1971.1
2017 Q1 1,599 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 1,593 3 0 1883.2
2016 Q3 1,171 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 1,635 3 3 1834.9
2016 Q1 1,568 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 1,728 8 2 4629.6
2015 Q3 1,766 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 1,775 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 2,332 2 2 857.6
2014 Q4 1,162 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 1,365 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 1,320 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 1,116 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 940 5 2 5319.1
2013 Q3 530 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 618 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 0 0 0
2012 Q4 1,046 6 1 5736.1
2012 Q3 920 10 4 10869.6
2012 Q2 455 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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