81% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $160,727 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Labor enforcement (WHD)
US Labor Department wage findings since 2013
1
labor cases
Violation types
Wage & hour (FLSA) (1)
Source: US DOL Wage and Hour Division enforcement records, matched by employer name and state.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
1,145
inspections on record
43,364
inspection hours
5.9
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.
2,569 citations across 43,364 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Penalty disposition
ⓘDifferences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
$840K
proposed penalties
$679K
current assessed
$679K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
2,536 assessments are final orders; 23 contested dockets.
Of $334K in penalties contested before the Commission, $173K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2022-06-16.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
ⓘShares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2022
ⓘThis rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US coal mining average was 3.26 and the all-US-mining average was 2.12 cases per 100 workers.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Year
total case rate
days-away
fatal
2022 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2021 *
2.42
2.42
0.000
2020
1.04
1.04
0.000
2019
2.00
1.00
0.000
2018
0.30
0.30
0.000
2017
1.13
0.57
0.000
2016
1.22
0.00
0.000
2015
0.67
0.33
0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Health sampling
ⓘ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.
Respirable coal dust
ⓘRespirable coal dust and silica figures cover coal facilities. Dust compliance is measured against the current 1.5 mg/m3 standard; samples predating the 2014 standard are included, so compliance rates are a coarse historical signal.
Last sampled: 2022-07-06, 4 years ago
93%
within 1.5 mg/m3
3,266
samples
10.44
dust max (mg/m3)
0
over MSHA ECV
ⓘThe excessive concentration value (ECV) is MSHA's own per-sample enforcement threshold, which builds in measurement uncertainty; a sample over its ECV can trigger a citation. The count covers only samples MSHA assigned an ECV.
1,802 samples taken by MSHA inspectors, 1,464 by the operator.
Noise
ⓘThe share counts noise samples whose measured dose exceeded the 90 dBA permissible exposure limit. It describes the sampled workplace, not what reached the miner's ear: hearing conservation programs and the hearing protection worn during the shift are recorded separately and are not reflected here.
When citations were contested
ⓘ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.
18citations taken to the federal commission · 1% of citations on record
Settled
17 · 94%
Stood as issued
1 · 6%
92%
S&S designation survived the contest
ⓘ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 12 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
50%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$270K proposed, $134K 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 2016-01-20. Vacated and withdrawn citations are removed from the file this view attributes through, so that outcome is slightly undercounted here.
Contested penalties
ⓘ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 controller contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
A dragline oiler had been walking the 1570 dragline. He was last seen near the end of a walkway and was later found between the shoe and the revolving frame. There were no witnesses to the event. The employee was fatally injured.
EE WAS OPERATING A SCOOP TO KNOCK OUT A STOPPING BETWEEN ENTRIES & CLEAN UP BLOCKS & OTHER MATERIAL. WHILE SCOOPING, THE BUCKET PICKED UP A 20' SECTION OF 4" DIAMETER HARD PLASTIC PIPE WITH A METAL COUPLING ON ONE END. THE END OF THE PIPE OPPOSITE THE OPERATOR HIT THE RIB & THE COUPLING END CAUGHT THE INNER CORNER OF THE BUCKET ON THEOPERATOR'S SIDE, BOWED & STRUCK HIM ON THE HEAD.
WHILE PREPARING TO ATTACH ROCKDUST HOSE TO POD DUSTER, THE DUSTER WAS STRUCK BY 3 SUPPLY CARS WHICH HAD BROKEN LOOSE FROM THE SLOPE CAR AT THE TOP OF THE SLOPE. CARS STRUCK THE DUSTER & THE VI CTIM WAS FATALY INJURED. THE CARS TRAVELED APPROXIMATELY 1700 FT. BEFORE STRIKING THE ROCKDUSTER. CAUSE OF THE CARS BREAKING LOOSE IS STILL UNDETERMINED.
EMPLOYEES WERE REMOVING 6 TON COUNTERWEIGHT FROM CRANE. EMPLOYEE REMOVED COUNTERWEIGHT PINS BEFORE CABLE WAS TIGHT. COUNTERWEIGHT BECAME UNSTABLE STRIKING HIM, CAUSING FATAL INJURIES.
July 23, 1998OH · Coalbull gang foreman, labor foreman, leadman, section foreman, shift bossFatality · ELECTRICAL
EE WAS SUPERVISING A MAINTENANCE REPAIR CREW IN THE COLLECTER BELT AREA OF THE BIN LOCATED AT THE BOTTOM OF THE MEIGS MINE NO.2 SLOPE. IT IS THE UNCONFIRMED THEORY THAT EE WHILE WALKING AROUND THE BELT TAIL PIECE, CAME INTO CONTACT WITH THE FRAME OF THE TAIL PIECE STRUCTURE WHICH HAD BECOME ENERGIZED. THE INVESTIGATION INTO THISINCIDENT IS CONTINUING AND AN AUTOPSY REPORT IS
May 27, 1992WV · Coalroof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs)Fatality · MACHINERY
RADITOR GAURD WAS TILTED FORWARD AND THERE WAS HYDRAULIC PRUMERE ON TILT CYLINDER. EMPLOYEE WAS POSTIONING BETWEEN THE BACK OF DOZER BLADE AND THE BLADE HOIST CYLINDER, HE HAD DISCONNECTED TH E TILT CYLINDER HYDRAULIC LINER. THIS CAUSED THE TILT CYLINDER TO RETRACT WHICH TILTED THE BLADE BACK WARD, PINNING HIM BETWEEN THE BACK OF THE BLADE AND THE HOIST CYLINDER.
EMPLOYEE WAS RE1OSITIONING A WINCH CABLE AROUND THE MAN HOIST CABLE WHEN THE HOIST CABLE BECAME TAUT STRIKING EMPLOYEE ACROSS THE FRONT PORTION OF HIS BODY
A RAM JACK BEIN1 TRANSPORTED ON THE FACE CONVEYOR CAUGHT THE SHEAR THEN THE MOVING FACE CONVEYOR PUSHING SHEAR OFF THE PANLINE AND INTO I.NAME CRUSHING HIM BETWEEN THE SHEAR DRUM AND THE TOP
For insurers, brokers, and safety consultants
Where American Electric Power Company Inc 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
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