Mining Incidents

Angel I Durrett; David J Durrett: 214 MSHA citations controller

MSHA controller ID: 0159303

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
24
Mines on record
4
Years on record
2020–2026
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2021
214
citations
44
significant & substantial
$60,213
proposed penalties
$60,213
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2021
63
inspections on record
1,503
inspection hours
14.2
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.
214 citations across 1,503 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Imminent-danger orders
A Section 107(a) order removes miners from an area when an inspector finds an imminent danger. Each order is lifted once the condition is corrected, so this counts orders issued, not orders now in effect.
3
Section 107(a) orders
Most recent order: 2023-12-27.
On record since 2021.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, 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.
$60K
proposed penalties
$60K
current assessed
$60K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
209 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-05-27.
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.
21.0%
significant & substantial
5.2%
high negligence or reckless
21.0%
reasonably likely or greater
31.9%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 9.5% low, 85.2% moderate, 5.2% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2025
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.
2.68
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.65 and the all-US-mining average was 1.97 cases per 100 workers.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2026 3.26 0.81 0.000
2025 2.68 0.00 0.000
2024 2.05 1.02 0.000
2023 0.47 0.00 0.000
2022 1.94 0.00 0.000
2021 0.00 0.00 0.000
2020 * 4.71 0.00 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.

Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
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: 2026-05-28
20%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
28
samples
10
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz132 over
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg15
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.

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Incident timeline

2026
4
2025
8
2024
7
2023
1
2022
3
2020
1

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Where Angel I Durrett; David J Durrett 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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