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H I G Capital LLC: 296 MSHA citations controller

MSHA controller ID: 0120301

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
27
Mines on record
14
Years on record
2014–2018
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2014
296
citations
61
significant & substantial
$173,474
proposed penalties
$150,737
paid to date
87% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $22,737 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2014
148
inspections on record
2,102
inspection hours
14.1
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.
296 citations across 2,102 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: 2015-01-14.
On record since 2015.
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.
$173K
proposed penalties
$151K
current assessed
$151K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
290 assessments are final orders; 9 contested dockets.
Of $95K in penalties contested before the Commission, $72K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2018-12-04.
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.
21.0%
significant & substantial
8.3%
high negligence or reckless
21.0%
reasonably likely or greater
41.7%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 7.9% low, 83.8% moderate, 8.3% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2018
ⓘ 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.
1.79
total case rate
0.45
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.95 and the all-US-mining average was 2.33 cases per 100 workers.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2018 1.79 0.45 0.000
2017 2.29 1.38 0.000
2016 1.54 0.00 0.000
2015 5.98 1.79 0.000
2014 4.39 2.93 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: 2018-07-27, 8 years ago
14%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
71
samples
42
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz175 over
  • Calcium oxide71 over
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg18
  • Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz12
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.
24 citations taken to the federal commission · 8% of citations on record
  • Settled 21 · 88%
  • Stood as issued 3 · 13%
56%
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 9 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
24%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$95K proposed, $72K 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 2017-11-09. 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
WEST 2017-0717 Settlement Manning 2018 $55K → $41K
WEST 2016-0564 Settlement Manning 2016 $22K → $16K
CENT 2015-0370 Settlement Lesnick 2015 $10K → $7K
WEST 2017-0588 Settlement Manning 2017 $3K → $3K
WEST 2017-0554 Dismissal Manning 2017 $2K → $2K
CENT 2015-0369 Settlement Lesnick 2015 $2K → $2K
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.

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2018
4
2017
5
2016
4
2015
11
2014
3

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