Soto's Rock: 143 MSHA citations operator
Controlled by
Romualdo Soto Jr; Jose Cruz Soto
MSHA operator ID: L38574
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 1
- Mines on record
- 1
- Years on record
- 2000
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
143
citations
42
significant & substantial
$36,837
proposed penalties
$36,794
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $43 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
85
inspections on record
1,021
inspection hours
14.0
citations per 100 inspection hours
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This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.143 citations across 1,021 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Penalty disposition
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Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.$37K
proposed penalties
$37K
current assessed
$37K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
143 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
Of $208 in penalties contested before the Commission, $200 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-06-08.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
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Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.29.4%
significant & substantial
14.7%
high negligence or reckless
28.7%
reasonably likely or greater
58.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.7% none, 4.9% low, 79.7% moderate, 14.7% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Health sampling
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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)
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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: 2020-12-09, 5 years ago
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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.8%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
16
samples
12
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
- Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz121 over
- Respirable dust, <.1mg4
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.
When citations were contested
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Contesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
2
citations taken to the federal commission · 1% of citations on record
- Settled 2 · 100%
100%
S&S designation survived the contest
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Counts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.of 1 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
4%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$208 proposed, $200 after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2011-12-29. Vacated and withdrawn citations are removed from the file this view attributes through, so that outcome is slightly undercounted here.
Contested penalties
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A reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.Largest penalties this operator contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
| Docket | Decision | Judge | Year | Proposed / upheld |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CENT 2009-130M | Settlement | Lesnick | 2010 | $108 → $100 |
| CENT 2012-259M | Settlement | Lesnick | 2012 | $100 → $100 |
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.
Top causes
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 1 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2000
1
Mines on record
- Soto's Rock TX
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Where Soto's Rock stands on silica, penalties, and injury rate
MSHA's standard limits respirable silica to 50 micrograms per cubic metre, but MSHA publishes dust and quartz as separate files and never the silica figure itself. We derive it per sample, score it against the limit, and set the operator's injury rate against a benchmark built from the full MSHA operator record. With the 26-year penalty trail, contest posture, and fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.
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