Mining Incidents

Yarber FM821 Clay Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Randall D Smith
Big Spring, Howard County, TX  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 4105201

Yarber FM821 Clay Pit has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $453 outstanding across 1 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 2017
16
citations
2
significant & substantial
$2,541
proposed penalties
$2,088
paid to date
82% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $453 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2017
14
inspections on record
92
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: 92 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Yarber FM821 Clay Pit has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $453 outstanding across 1 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.
$3K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$453
outstanding
16 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-03-10.
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 590 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 849 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 1,228 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 946 1 0 1057.1
2024 Q4 1,037 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 1,266 2 1 1579.8
2024 Q2 1,073 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 987 0 0 0.0
Show 30 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 931 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 669 5 1 7473.8
2023 Q2 817 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 443 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 376 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 466 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 716 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 1,057 1 0 946.1
2021 Q4 752 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 744 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 0 0 0
2021 Q1 767 2 0 2607.6
2020 Q4 0 0 0
2020 Q3 1,029 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 571 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 255 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 1,049 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 278 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 570 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 911 1 0 1097.7
2018 Q4 1,195 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,300 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 540 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 466 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 883 1 0 1132.5
2017 Q3 745 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 679 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 1,068 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 390 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 672 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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