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Cementos Portland Valderrivas S A: 2,128 MSHA citations controller

MSHA controller ID: M13214

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
339
Mines on record
6
Years on record
1999–2016
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
2,128
citations
494
significant & substantial
$1,677,195
proposed penalties
$1,174,542
paid to date
70% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $502,653 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
381
inspections on record
15,012
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.
2,128 citations across 15,012 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.
6
Section 107(a) orders
Most recent order: 2015-09-02.
On record since 2010.
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.
$1.7M
proposed penalties
$1.2M
current assessed
$1.2M
paid to date
$0
outstanding
2,106 assessments are final orders; 82 contested dockets.
Of $1.3M in penalties contested before the Commission, $790K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2016-09-16.
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.
23.4%
significant & substantial
12.7%
high negligence or reckless
23.9%
reasonably likely or greater
56.6%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 15.0% low, 72.3% moderate, 12.7% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2016
ⓘ 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.
4.31
total case rate
1.85
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 2.17 and the all-US-mining average was 2.59 cases per 100 workers.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2016 4.31 1.85 0.000
2015 3.58 0.95 0.000
2014 2.00 1.00 0.000
2013 0.86 0.29 0.000
2012 2.31 0.26 0.000
2011 1.39 0.46 0.000
2010 1.79 0.45 0.000
2009 3.93 1.03 0.000
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: 2016-05-25, 10 years ago
3%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
333
samples
289
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Calcium oxide375 over
  • Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz335 over
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz50
  • 1,2-Dichloroetha32
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.
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.
641 citations taken to the federal commission · 30% of citations on record
  • Settled 625 · 98%
  • Stood as issued 16 · 2%
72%
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 264 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
39%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$1.3M proposed, $778K 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 2016-10-18. 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.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
SE 2013-586M Settlement Bulluck 2015 $178K → $118K
SE 2013-82M Settlement Bulluck 2013 $96K → $70K
SE 2010-105M Settlement Lesnick 2013 $92K → $45K
SE 2010-373M Settlement Melick 2012 $91K → $54K
SE 2010-5M Settlement Gill 2012 $71K → $35K
SE 2013-395M Settlement Bulluck 2013 $66K → $44K
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.

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2016
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2015
17
2014
12
2013
4
2012
10
2011
7
2010
9
2009
28
2008
30
2007
20
2006
16
2005
15
2004
35
2003
23
2002
30
2001
34
2000
31
1999
1

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Where Cementos Portland Valderrivas S A 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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