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Hidden Hill Pit, San Saba County, Texas: 8 MSHA citations
Updated November 6, 2026. Source: US Department of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), Open Government Data Sets.
Hidden Hill Pit is an intermittent crushed, broken stone surface mine in San Saba County, Texas, operated by Buck Horn Whitetail Ranch with 4 employees on MSHA's record (mine ID 4105516). Since January 1, 2022 MSHA inspectors issued 8 citations and orders there with $1,149 in proposed penalties, and 0 accident reports were filed there, with no injury or illness cases.
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- MSHA mine ID
- 4105516
- Status
- Intermittent since October 30, 2024
- Main commodity
- Crushed, broken stone
- Mine type
- Surface
- County
- San Saba County, Texas
- Nearest town
- Cherokee
- Operator
- Buck Horn Whitetail Ranch
- Employees
- 4
- MSHA field office
- Dallas TX Field Office
- Citations and orders since January 1, 2022
- 8
- Significant and substantial
- 1 (12.5%)
- Closure orders
- 0
- High negligence or reckless
- 0
- Proposed penalties
- $1,149
- Amount paid so far
- $1,149
- Inspections
- 8
- Inspector hours on site
- 36
- Citations per inspection
- 1.00 (all mines 2.30)
- Accident reports
- 0
- Injury and illness cases
- 0
- Fatalities
- 0
- Latest MSHA record
- January 21, 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 | 3 | 1 | $410 | 0 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | $143 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2 | 0 | $294 | 0 |
| 2026 | 2 | 0 | $302 | 0 |
Standards cited most at Hidden Hill Pit
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 56.14107 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
| 30 CFR 47.41 | Hazard communication | 1 |
| 30 CFR 56.14132 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
| 30 CFR 56.4203 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
| 30 CFR 56.14103 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
| 30 CFR 56.4230 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
| 30 CFR 56.14207 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
| 30 CFR 56.12008 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
Other open mines in San Saba County, Texas
| Mine | Operator | County | Main commodity | Employees | Citations since 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Valle Quarry | Valle Stone, LLC | San Saba County, TX | Dimension sandstone | 10 | 43 |
| Jacobs Stone Products, Inc. | Jacobs Stone Products Inc | San Saba County, TX | Dimension limestone | 7 | 43 |
| Texas Architectural Aggregate Inc. | Texas Architectural Aggregate Inc | San Saba County, TX | Crushed, broken limestone | 36 | 42 |
| Greater Texas Stone/Rocking U | Greater Texas Stone LLC | San Saba County, TX | Dimension stone | 11 | 42 |
| San Saba Quarry | Imperial Products Supply, LLC | San Saba County, TX | Dimension stone | 19 | 37 |
| Cobra Stone Quarry #2 | Cobra Stone Inc. | San Saba County, TX | Crushed, broken sandstone | 17 | 33 |
| Texas Materials San Saba Quarry | Apac-Texas Inc | San Saba County, TX | Crushed, broken limestone | 9 | 10 |
| Jacobs Stone Products Inc Mine #2 | Jacobs Stone Products Inc | San Saba County, TX | Crushed, broken limestone | 4 | 8 |
| Jacobs Stone Products, Inc 8501 | Jacobs Stone Products Inc | San Saba County, TX | Dimension limestone | 5 | 3 |
| San Saba Pit | Howard Pierce & Sons Stone Company LLC | San Saba County, TX | Dimension stone | 4 | 1 |
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.