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James F Graham: 1,803 MSHA citations controller

MSHA controller ID: C02880

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
206
Mines on record
6
Years on record
1983–2014
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
1,803
citations
609
significant & substantial
$883,069
proposed penalties
$645,565
paid to date
73% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $237,504 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
393
inspections on record
30,367
inspection hours
5.9
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.
1,803 citations across 30,367 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.
3
Section 107(a) orders
Most recent order: 2014-04-21.
On record since 2011.
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.
$883K
proposed penalties
$646K
current assessed
$646K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
1,774 assessments are final orders; 110 contested dockets.
Of $600K in penalties contested before the Commission, $362K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2014-12-22.
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.
34.3%
significant & substantial
1.4%
high negligence or reckless
34.5%
reasonably likely or greater
12.3%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.3% none, 45.2% low, 53.2% moderate, 1.4% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2014
ⓘ 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.
2.72
total case rate
0.99
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US coal mining average was 3.96 and the all-US-mining average was 2.93 cases per 100 workers.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2014 2.72 0.99 0.000
2013 3.26 1.16 0.000
2012 3.11 1.04 0.000
2011 3.15 1.26 0.000
2010 4.86 1.62 0.000
2009 4.86 1.46 0.000
2008 3.93 1.69 0.000
2007 4.26 2.84 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.

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: 2014-12-18, 11 years ago
95%
within 1.5 mg/m3
3,402
samples
6.40
dust max (mg/m3)
1
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.
1,514 samples taken by MSHA inspectors, 1,888 by the operator.
Most-sampled occupations
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR1,809
  • SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (STANDARD SIDE)347
  • ROOF BOLTER (TWIN HEAD) (RETURN SIDE)231

Silica (quartz)

Last sampled: 2014-12-15, 11 years ago
5.4
silica avg (%)
196
samples
40.8
silica max (%)
Most-sampled occupations
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR144
  • ROOF BOLTER (TWIN HEAD) (RETURN SIDE)7
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: 2014-12-17, 11 years ago
10%
over PEL
463
samples
Most-sampled occupations
  • SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (STANDARD SIDE)70
  • ROOF BOLTER (TWIN HEAD) (INTAKE SIDE)60
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR57
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.
490 citations taken to the federal commission · 27% of citations on record
  • Settled 472 · 96%
  • Stood as issued 18 · 4%
87%
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 354 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
40%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$600K proposed, $362K 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 2015-03-24. 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
LAKE 2012-572 Settlement Steele 2013 $50K → $4K
LAKE 2011-584 Settlement Lesnick 2012 $34K → $8K
LAKE 2013-691 Settlement Lewis 2014 $24K → $21K
LAKE 2014-0407 Settlement Lesnick 2015 $22K → $19K
LAKE 2014-117 Settlement Lesnick 2014 $21K → $17K
LAKE 2012-122 Settlement Lewis 2012 $20K → $12K
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.

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2012
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2011
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2010
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2009
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2008
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2007
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2006
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2004
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2000
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1997
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1996
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1994
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1990
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1987
2
1986
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1984
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1983
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Where James F Graham 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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