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Betty J Briggs; Steve J Briggs: 192 MSHA citations controller

MSHA controller ID: M09241

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Mines on record
2
Years on record
2006–2023
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
192
citations
38
significant & substantial
$29,363
proposed penalties
$29,363
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
128
inspections on record
1,183
inspection hours
16.2
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.
192 citations across 1,183 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.
1
Section 107(a) orders
Most recent order: 2023-04-03.
On record since 2023.
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.
$29K
proposed penalties
$29K
current assessed
$29K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
185 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-03-05.
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.
20.0%
significant & substantial
4.7%
high negligence or reckless
20.0%
reasonably likely or greater
37.9%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.5% none, 17.9% low, 76.8% moderate, 4.7% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
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: 2025-09-15
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
23
samples
6
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg14
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz4
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz3
  • Arsenic fumes1
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

2023
1
2006
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Where Betty J Briggs; Steve J Briggs 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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