John T Quintrell: 751 MSHA citations controller
MSHA controller ID: 0150681
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 20
- Mines on record
- 7
- Years on record
- 2020–2025
Public-issuer link
Alpha Metallurgical Resources, Inc. (AMR) discloses mines under this controller in its SEC Dodd-Frank Section 1503 (EX-95) mine-safety filings.
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2019
751
citations
219
significant & substantial
$713,344
proposed penalties
$55,823
paid to date
8% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $657,521 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2019
399
inspections on record
9,933
inspection hours
7.6
citations per 100 inspection hours
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This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.751 citations across 9,933 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Penalty disposition
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Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.$713K
proposed penalties
$652K
current assessed
$56K
paid to date
$596K
outstanding
712 assessments are final orders; 51 contested dockets.
Of $199K in penalties contested before the Commission, $138K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-04-21.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
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Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.30.1%
significant & substantial
10.0%
high negligence or reckless
30.3%
reasonably likely or greater
27.9%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.1% none, 24.2% low, 65.6% moderate, 9.8% high, 0.3% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2025
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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.1.41
total case rate
1.41
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US coal mining average was 3.19 and the all-US-mining average was 1.97 cases per 100 workers.
| Year | total case rate | days-away | fatal |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 * | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.000 |
| 2025 | 1.41 | 1.41 | 0.000 |
| 2024 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.000 |
| 2023 | 3.50 | 2.45 | 0.000 |
| 2022 | 0.51 | 0.51 | 0.000 |
| 2021 | 1.04 | 1.04 | 0.000 |
| 2020 | 3.74 | 1.87 | 0.000 |
| 2019 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 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
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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
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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: 2026-08-20
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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.100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
2,197
samples
2.00
dust max (mg/m3)
2
over MSHA ECV
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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.736 samples taken by MSHA inspectors, 1,461 by the operator.
Most-sampled occupations
- CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR405
- ROOF BOLTER (TWIN HEAD) (RETURN SIDE)391
- BULLDOZER OPERATOR350
Silica (quartz)
Last sampled: 2026-08-076.4
silica avg (%)
148
samples
38.2
silica max (%)
Most-sampled occupations
- BULLDOZER OPERATOR48
- CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR28
- ROOF BOLTER (TWIN HEAD) (RETURN SIDE)27
Noise
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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: 2026-05-28
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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.2%
over PEL
446
samples
Most-sampled occupations
- BULLDOZER OPERATOR89
- HIGHLIFT OPERATOR/FRONT END LOADER47
- REFUSE TRUCK DRIVER/BACKFILL TRUCK DRIVE46
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly.
When citations were contested
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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.
209
citations taken to the federal commission · 28% of citations on record
- Settled 176 · 84%
- Stood as issued 23 · 11%
- Still open 10 · 5%
93%
S&S designation survived the contest
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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 86 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
31%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$199K proposed, $138K 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 2025-11-19. Vacated and withdrawn citations are removed from the file this view attributes through, so that outcome is slightly undercounted here.
Contested penalties
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WEVA 2024-0215 | Settlement | Lewis | 2024 | $56K → $45K |
| WEVA 2024-0075 | Settlement | Paez | 2024 | $30K → $19K |
| WEVA 2024-0310 | Settlement | Sullivan | 2024 | $16K → $6K |
| WEVA 2024-0351 | Settlement | 2024 | $16K → $9K | |
| WEVA 2025-0210 | Settlement | Bulluck | 2025 | $10K → $6K |
| WEVA 2024-0072 | Settlement | Young | 2024 | $8K → $5K |
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.
Top causes
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 6 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS 5 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE 3 non-fatal
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK 2 non-fatal
- ELECTRICAL 1 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 1 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2025
3
2024
2
2023
10
2022
1
2021
2
2020
2
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Where John T Quintrell 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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