Dwayne Potter controller
MSHA controller ID: 0152901
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 9
- Mines on record
- 1
- Years on record
- 2021–2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2020
240
citations
67
significant & substantial
$130,645
proposed penalties
$105,133
paid to date
80% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $25,512 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2020
79
inspections on record
1,257
inspection hours
19.1
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.240 citations across 1,257 inspection hours.
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.$131K
proposed penalties
$120K
current assessed
$105K
paid to date
$15K
outstanding
196 assessments are final orders; 11 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2023-09-19.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Top causes
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS 2 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 2 non-fatal
- STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT 2 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 1 non-fatal
- MACHINERY 1 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE 1 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2025
1
2024
1
2023
1
2022
3
2021
3
Operators under this controller
Mines on record
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The full compliance file on Dwayne Potter
A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.