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Balcones Pit & Plant: 26 MSHA citations
Updated November 6, 2026. Source: US Department of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), Open Government Data Sets.
Balcones Pit & Plant is an active common clays surface mine in Fayette County, Texas, operated by Balcones Minerals Corp with 22 employees on MSHA's record (mine ID 4100252). Since January 1, 2022 MSHA inspectors issued 26 citations and orders there with $4,717 in proposed penalties, and 1 accident report was filed there, with 1 injury or illness case.
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- MSHA mine ID
- 4100252
- Status
- Active since July 4, 1976
- Main commodity
- Common clays
- Mine type
- Surface
- County
- Fayette County, Texas
- Nearest town
- Flatonia
- Operator
- Balcones Minerals Corp
- Employees
- 22
- MSHA field office
- Broussard LA Field Office
- Citations and orders since January 1, 2022
- 26
- Significant and substantial
- 3 (11.5%)
- Closure orders
- 0
- High negligence or reckless
- 0
- Proposed penalties
- $4,717
- Amount paid so far
- $4,717
- Inspections
- 11
- Inspector hours on site
- 94
- Citations per inspection
- 2.36 (all mines 2.30)
- Accident reports
- 1
- Injury and illness cases
- 1
- Fatalities
- 0
- Latest MSHA record
- June 9, 2026
Citations and injury cases by year
Calendar years since 2022; 2026 runs to the date of the MSHA files.
| Year | Citations and orders | Significant and substantial | Proposed penalties | Injury and illness cases |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2 | 1 | $651 | 0 |
| 2023 | 16 | 1 | $2,858 | 0 |
| 2025 | 6 | 1 | $906 | 0 |
| 2026 | 2 | 0 | $302 | 1 |
Standards cited most at Balcones Pit & Plant
Sections of Title 30 of the Code of Federal Regulations named on the citations, with the part each belongs to.
| Standard | What the part covers | Citations |
|---|---|---|
| 30 CFR 56.12018 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 5 |
| 30 CFR 47.44 | Hazard communication | 3 |
| 30 CFR 56.14107 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 3 |
| 30 CFR 56.12004 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 2 |
| 30 CFR 56.12032 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 2 |
| 30 CFR 56.14115 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
| 30 CFR 56.14100 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
| 30 CFR 56.11001 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
| 30 CFR 56.12002 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
| 30 CFR 56.12034 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
| 30 CFR 56.4101 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
| 30 CFR 56.4201 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
| 30 CFR 47.41 | Hazard communication | 1 |
| 30 CFR 56.14209 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
| 30 CFR 56.12028 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
Injury and illness cases at Balcones Pit & Plant
Accident reports by degree of injury, as the operator reported them to MSHA.
| Degree | Cases |
|---|---|
| Days away from work or restricted activity | 1 |
What the accident reports at Balcones Pit & Plant describe
Accident classification, as MSHA codes the circumstances that contributed most directly.
| Classification | Reports |
|---|---|
| Striking or bumping | 1 |
Equipment named in accident reports at Balcones Pit & Plant
| Equipment | Reports |
|---|---|
| Packaging machine | 1 |
Other open mines in Fayette County, Texas
| Mine | Operator | County | Main commodity | Employees | Citations since 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ellinger Sand & Gravel | Ellinger Sand & Gravel | Fayette County, TX | Construction sand and gravel | 2 | 95 |
| Ellinger Plant #4 | Texas Aggregates LP | Fayette County, TX | Sand, common | 18 | 38 |
| Baca Road | Travis Materials East Central, Ellinger | Fayette County, TX | Construction sand and gravel | 10 | 25 |
| Muldoon Minerals Inc. | Muldoon Minerals Inc | Fayette County, TX | Common clays | 16 | 24 |
| Lagrange Sand Supply | Wright Materials | Fayette County, TX | Sand, common | 2 | 20 |
| Flatonia Mines & Plant | Mid-Tex Minerals Inc | Fayette County, TX | Common clays | 3 | 18 |
| Ellinger Plant | Alleyton Resource Company, LLC. | Fayette County, TX | Construction sand and gravel | 20 | 12 |
| Wegenhoft Plant | Alleyton Resource Company, LLC. | Fayette County, TX | Construction sand and gravel | 14 | 9 |
| Blankenburg Pit | Leward Anders & Sons Inc | Fayette County, TX | Construction sand and gravel | 3 | 8 |
| Valley Ranch Aggregate LLC | Valley Ranch Aggregate LLC | Fayette County, TX | Construction sand and gravel | 5 | 0 |
US government work, public domain. Counts come from the MSHA files published on November 6, 2026. An open mine is one MSHA lists as Active, Intermittent, New Mine, Temporarily Idled or NonProducing; 13,673 were open that day. Citations, penalties, inspections and accident reports run from January 1, 2022. A citation is an inspector's allegation and an operator can contest it; the penalty is the amount MSHA first proposed, before any contest or settlement. An operator is the legal entity MSHA assesses, and a parent company is its controller. Mines run by sole proprietors or by individuals are counted in every total and are not named. This page uses MSHA data and is not endorsed or certified by MSHA. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.