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Hank K Matney; Fred D Matney; Rick A Matney: 2,251 MSHA citations controller

MSHA controller ID: C05343

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
226
Mines on record
24
Years on record
1983–2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
2,251
citations
636
significant & substantial
$510,020
proposed penalties
$442,894
paid to date
87% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $67,126 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
625
inspections on record
24,170
inspection hours
9.3
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.
2,251 citations across 24,170 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: 2022-01-04.
On record since 2022.
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.
$510K
proposed penalties
$448K
current assessed
$443K
paid to date
$5K
outstanding
2,174 assessments are final orders; 89 contested dockets.
Of $264K in penalties contested before the Commission, $202K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-02-06.
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.
28.9%
significant & substantial
2.5%
high negligence or reckless
28.8%
reasonably likely or greater
19.2%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.1% none, 14.3% low, 83.1% moderate, 2.5% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2002
ⓘ 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.
28.30
total case rate
28.30
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US coal mining average was 6.89 and the all-US-mining average was 5.05 cases per 100 workers.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2002 * 28.30 28.30 0.000
2000 * 15.86 15.86 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: 2007-04-13, 19 years ago
91%
within 1.5 mg/m3
290
samples
8.07
dust max (mg/m3)
126 samples taken by MSHA inspectors, 164 by the operator.
Most-sampled occupations
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR116
  • ROOF BOLTER (TWIN HEAD) (RETURN SIDE)25
  • MOBILE BRIDGE OPERATOR15

Silica (quartz)

Last sampled: 2007-01-17, 19 years ago
6.8
silica avg (%)
29
samples
10.9
silica max (%)
Most-sampled occupations
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR10
  • ROOF BOLTER (TWIN HEAD) (RETURN SIDE)4
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: 2006-08-29, 19 years ago
14%
over PEL
28
samples
Most-sampled occupations
  • MOBILE BRIDGE OPERATOR6
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR5
  • ROOF BOLTER (SINGLE HEAD)4
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.
765 citations taken to the federal commission · 34% of citations on record
  • Settled 704 · 92%
  • Stood as issued 40 · 5%
  • Still open 21 · 3%
96%
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 249 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
24%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$264K proposed, $202K 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 2026-04-02. 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
VA 2016-0182 Settlement Steele 2017 $14K → $10K
VA 2025-0042 Settlement Young 2025 $8K → $6K
VA 2013-373 Settlement Feldman 2014 $7K → $6K
VA 2023-0045 Settlement McCarthy 2024 $6K → $4K
VA 2011-578 Settlement Lesnick 2012 $6K → $4K
VA 2016-0181 Settlement Lesnick 2017 $6K → $5K
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.

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Incident timeline

2025
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2023
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2021
1
2019
1
2018
2
2017
2
2016
1
2014
2
2013
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2012
1
2011
1
2010
7
2009
3
2008
1
2007
1
2006
8
2005
5
2004
7
2003
3
2002
5
2001
5
2000
5
1998
6
1997
10
1996
9
1995
9
1994
12
1993
16
1992
4
1991
1
1990
5
1989
15
1988
12
1987
8
1986
29
1985
17
1984
5
1983
3

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Where Hank K Matney; Fred D Matney; Rick A Matney 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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