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Coal International PLC; Cambrian Mining PLC: 1,055 MSHA citations controller

MSHA controller ID: 0054889

Coal International PLC; Cambrian Mining PLC has had no fatalities among 60 reportable incidents since 2007. MSHA has proposed $1.8M in penalties since 2007.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
60
Mines on record
2
Years on record
2007–2011
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2007
1,055
citations
306
significant & substantial
$1,786,315
proposed penalties
$1,296,689
paid to date
73% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $489,626 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2006
65
inspections on record
5,570
inspection hours
18.9
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.
1,055 citations across 5,570 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: 2010-08-24.
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.
$1.8M
proposed penalties
$1.3M
current assessed
$1.3M
paid to date
$0
outstanding
1,032 assessments are final orders; 50 contested dockets.
Of $1.6M in penalties contested before the Commission, $1.1M was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2011-03-29.
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.
29.7%
significant & substantial
12.1%
high negligence or reckless
30.0%
reasonably likely or greater
21.7%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.3% none, 9.1% low, 78.5% moderate, 12.0% high, 0.1% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2011
ⓘ 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 and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year. Employment reports reach back to 1983, but those earlier years come from MSHA's archived file format and are not used in rates.
1.35
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US coal mining average was 3.83 and the all-US-mining average was 3.08 cases per 100 workers.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2011 1.35 0.00 0.000
2010 7.95 5.30 0.000
2009 8.22 6.58 0.000
2008 13.41 1.79 0.000
2007 * 24.00 4.80 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: 2011-03-21, 15 years ago
88%
within 1.5 mg/m3
550
samples
6.74
dust max (mg/m3)
266 samples taken by MSHA inspectors, 284 by the operator.
Most-sampled occupations
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR201
  • ROOF BOLTER (SINGLE HEAD)55
  • SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (STANDARD SIDE)53

Silica (quartz)

Last sampled: 2011-02-16, 15 years ago
3.8
silica avg (%)
29
samples
8.9
silica max (%)
Most-sampled occupations
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR19
  • BULLDOZER OPERATOR6
  • CLEANING PLANT OPERATOR4
See US coal mines ranked by silica in their dust samples.

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.

Last sampled: 2011-03-17, 15 years ago
4%
over PEL
81
samples
Most-sampled occupations
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR10
  • SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (STANDARD SIDE)9
  • BULLDOZER OPERATOR7
See US mines ranked by noise samples over the legal limit.
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, 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.
389 citations taken to the federal commission · 37% of citations on record
  • Settled 386 · 99%
  • Stood as issued 3 · 1%
82%
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 247 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
31%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$1.6M proposed, $1.1M 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 2014-06-29. 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
WEVA 2011-2268 Settlement Steele 2013 $207K → $162K
WEVA 2012-111 Settlement Steele 2013 $182K → $144K
WEVA 2012-878 Settlement Steele 2013 $101K → $61K
WEVA 2011-906 Settlement Lewis 2012 $97K → $19K
WEVA 2009-1439 Settlement Paez 2011 $87K → $72K
WEVA 2010-522 Settlement Lewis 2011 $79K → $65K
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.

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2011
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2010
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2009
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2008
18
2007
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Where Coal International PLC; Cambrian Mining PLC 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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