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David Michael Jamison; Petri E Koivula: 436 MSHA citations controller

MSHA controller ID: 0170221

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
41
Mines on record
11
Years on record
2022–2026
Public-issuer link

Alpha Metallurgical Resources, Inc. (AMR) discloses mines under this controller in its SEC Dodd-Frank Section 1503 (EX-95) mine-safety filings.

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Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2022
436
citations
73
significant & substantial
$292,811
proposed penalties
$209,401
paid to date
72% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $83,410 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2022
238
inspections on record
7,318
inspection hours
6.0
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.
436 citations across 7,318 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: 2023-05-22.
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.
$293K
proposed penalties
$283K
current assessed
$209K
paid to date
$73K
outstanding
373 assessments are final orders; 6 contested dockets.
Of $33K in penalties contested before the Commission, $23K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-07-01.
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.
17.0%
significant & substantial
4.2%
high negligence or reckless
17.0%
reasonably likely or greater
21.9%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.2% none, 25.1% low, 70.5% moderate, 4.2% 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.
1.55
total case rate
0.86
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US coal mining average was 3.19 and the all-US-mining average was 1.97 cases per 100 workers.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2026 1.58 1.26 0.000
2025 1.55 0.86 0.000
2024 1.22 0.35 0.000
2023 1.82 0.91 0.000
2022 * 5.95 5.95 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: 2026-08-11
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
580
samples
0.99
dust max (mg/m3)
0
over MSHA ECV
ⓘ The excessive concentration value (ECV) is MSHA's own per-sample enforcement threshold, which builds in measurement uncertainty; a sample over its ECV can trigger a citation. The count covers only samples MSHA assigned an ECV.
316 samples taken by MSHA inspectors, 264 by the operator.
Most-sampled occupations
  • BULLDOZER OPERATOR205
  • HIGHWALL DRILL OPERATOR190
  • AUGER OPERATOR30

Silica (quartz)

Last sampled: 2026-08-14
13.2
silica avg (%)
40
samples
38.3
silica max (%)
Most-sampled occupations
  • HIGHWALL DRILL OPERATOR24
  • BULLDOZER OPERATOR14
  • CLEANUP MAN1
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: 2026-08-05
0%
over PEL
181
samples
Most-sampled occupations
  • BULLDOZER OPERATOR43
  • HIGHWALL DRILL OPERATOR35
  • AUGER HELPER28
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.
14 citations taken to the federal commission · 3% of citations on record
  • Settled 12 · 86%
  • Stood as issued 1 · 7%
  • Still open 1 · 7%
86%
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 7 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
30%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$33K proposed, $23K 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 2026-05-18. 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
WEVA 2026-0113 Settlement Paez 2026 $15K → $12K
WEST 2024-0287 Settlement Simonton 2025 $14K → $10K
WEVA 2026-0168 Settlement Simonton 2026 $4K → $1K
WEVA 2026-0274 Dismissal 2026 $465 → $465
WEVA 2026-0167 Settlement Lewis 2026 $267 → $151
WEVA 2026-0190 Decision pending
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.

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2023
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2022
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Where David Michael Jamison; Petri E Koivula 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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