County Line Mine · Struck by falling object
THE VICTIM, EE, AGE 7 WAS COLLECTING QUARTZ CRYSTALS AT THE BASE OF THE HIGH WALL WHEN THE OVER BURDEN COLLAPSED STRIKING THE VICTIM KNOCKING HIM TO THE GROUND.
Bob James Fecho: 1 recorded fatality controller
MSHA controller ID: M13393
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Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
34
citations
8
significant & substantial
$5,659
proposed penalties
$3,210
paid to date
57% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $2,449 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
10
inspections on record
278
inspection hours
n/a
citations per 100 inspection hours
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This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.Rate withheld: 278 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Penalty disposition
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Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.$6K
proposed penalties
$6K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$2K
outstanding
28 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-11-06.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
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Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.25.0%
significant & substantial
43.8%
high negligence or reckless
25.0%
reasonably likely or greater
25.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 6.2% low, 50.0% moderate, 43.8% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Top causes
- FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL 1 fatality
- OTHER 1 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2000
2 (1f)
Operators under this controller
Mines on record
Fatalities under this controller
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Where Bob James Fecho 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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