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Jerry L Johnson: 278 MSHA citations controller

MSHA controller ID: M11460

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Mines on record
2
Years on record
2006–2023
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
278
citations
63
significant & substantial
$130,211
proposed penalties
$75,109
paid to date
58% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $55,102 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
186
inspections on record
2,341
inspection hours
11.9
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.
278 citations across 2,341 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: 2014-04-16.
On record since 2014.
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.
$130K
proposed penalties
$75K
current assessed
$75K
paid to date
$319
outstanding
268 assessments are final orders; 49 contested dockets.
Of $116K in penalties contested before the Commission, $62K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-03-12.
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.
23.2%
significant & substantial
16.2%
high negligence or reckless
21.0%
reasonably likely or greater
60.3%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.7% none, 30.9% low, 52.2% moderate, 16.2% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
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: 2020-06-30, 6 years ago
50%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
3
samples
2
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz21 over
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg1
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.
159 citations taken to the federal commission · 57% of citations on record
  • Settled 155 · 97%
  • Stood as issued 1 · 1%
  • Vacated or withdrawn 1 · 1%
  • Still open 2 · 1%
53%
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 70 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
48%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$113K proposed, $59K 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 2025-09-15. 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
PENN 2011-504M Settlement Harner 2012 $20K → $2K
PENN 2011-229M Settlement Lewis 2012 $13K → $10K
PENN 2011-47M Settlement Harner 2012 $10K → $5K
PENN 2014-0904 Settlement Rae 2015 $8K → $5K
PENN 2011-303M Settlement Andrews 2013 $7K → $6K
PENN 2012-51M Settlement Harner 2012 $5K → $500
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.

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Where Jerry L Johnson 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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