81% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $87,032 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
397
inspections on record
19,841
inspection hours
7.9
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.
1,561 citations across 19,841 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, 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.
$461K
proposed penalties
$376K
current assessed
$374K
paid to date
$2K
outstanding
1,539 assessments are final orders; 31 contested dockets.
Of $228K in penalties contested before the Commission, $143K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2018-01-29.
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.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, 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.
108citations taken to the federal commission · 7% of citations on record
Settled
108 · 100%
89%
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 Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.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 92 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
37%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$228K proposed, $143K 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 A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record.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 2013-11-12. Vacated and withdrawn citations are removed from the file this view attributes through, so that outcome is slightly undercounted here.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.
THE FOLLOWING WAS A CONCLUSION DRAWED FROM ACCIDENT SITE. THE EE WENT INTO HEADING TO BOLT TOP WHEN HE WENT INBY AN OPEN CROSSCUT NOT SUPPORTED HE PARKED HIS BOLTER AT THE LAST ROW OF BOLTS AT THAT TIME HE WENT INBY ROOF SUPPORTS APPROX. 30-40 INCHES ON MARKING 3RD BOLT. A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK APPROX. 15X18X8 FELL STRIKING HIM AND PINNED HIM AGAINST BOLT MACHINE.
August 28, 1991KY · Coalbeltman, conveyor man, conveyor belt worker, mobile bridge carrierman, feeder operator, conveyor riderFatality · FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING THE #3 MOBILE BRIDHE CARRIER,LOCATED BEHIND THE MINER IN THE #3 ENTRY WHEN A ROCK FELL FROM THE ROOF MEASURING APPROXIMATELY 70'X20'X5-7'H ONTO THE MOBILE BRIDGE CARRIER CAUSING FAAL INJURIES TO HIM.
For insurers, brokers, and safety consultants
Where Henry Chaney Jr 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.