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John Harris: 614 MSHA citations controller

MSHA controller ID: C14759

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
44
Mines on record
9
Years on record
1992–2012
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
614
citations
257
significant & substantial
$193,518
proposed penalties
$145,512
paid to date
75% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $48,006 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
411
inspections on record
6,739
inspection hours
9.1
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.
614 citations across 6,739 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: 2011-11-18.
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.
$194K
proposed penalties
$146K
current assessed
$146K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
579 assessments are final orders; 6 contested dockets.
Of $122K in penalties contested before the Commission, $74K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2013-05-23.
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.
43.9%
significant & substantial
5.1%
high negligence or reckless
44.3%
reasonably likely or greater
17.8%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.3% none, 7.4% low, 87.2% moderate, 5.1% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2012
ⓘ 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.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US coal mining average was 3.74 and the all-US-mining average was 2.96 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
2012 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2009 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2008 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2007 * 5.76 5.76 0.000
2006 * 2.59 2.59 0.000
2005 1.60 1.60 0.000
2004 9.21 9.21 0.000
2003 * 28.70 23.92 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: 2010-05-05, 16 years ago
96%
within 1.5 mg/m3
283
samples
3.31
dust max (mg/m3)
231 samples taken by MSHA inspectors, 52 by the operator.
Most-sampled occupations
  • HIGHLIFT OPERATOR/FRONT END LOADER59
  • CLEANING PLANT OPERATOR38
  • UTILITY MAN31

Silica (quartz)

Last sampled: 2007-07-26, 19 years ago
3.7
silica avg (%)
32
samples
19.2
silica max (%)
Most-sampled occupations
  • CLEANING PLANT OPERATOR12
  • TIPPLE OPERATOR6
  • BULLDOZER OPERATOR4
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: 2010-01-06, 16 years ago
22%
over PEL
170
samples
Most-sampled occupations
  • HIGHLIFT OPERATOR/FRONT END LOADER38
  • BULLDOZER OPERATOR19
  • CLEANING PLANT OPERATOR16
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.
12 citations taken to the federal commission · 2% of citations on record
  • Settled 12 · 100%
100%
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 10 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
41%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$118K proposed, $70K 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 2012-07-23. 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
KENT 2011-915 Settlement Tureck 2012 $56K → $23K
KENT 2012-1346 Settlement Bulluck 2014 $37K → $22K
KENT 2010-1509 Settlement Tureck 2012 $17K → $17K
KENT 2008-1382 Settlement Lesnick 2010 $8K → $8K
KENT 2004-48 Dismissal Lesnick 2004 $3K → $3K
KENT 2004-47 Default Lesnick 2004 $856 → $856
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.

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2012
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2010
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2007
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2006
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2005
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2004
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2003
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2002
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2001
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2000
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1999
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1998
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1997
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1996
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1995
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1993
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1992
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Where John Harris 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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