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Lipari Energy: 1,334 MSHA citations controller

MSHA controller ID: 0079793

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
78
Mines on record
12
Years on record
2009–2026
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2008
1,334
citations
355
significant & substantial
$492,553
proposed penalties
$298,314
paid to date
61% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $194,239 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2008
504
inspections on record
21,572
inspection hours
6.2
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.
1,334 citations across 21,572 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: 2013-10-21.
On record since 2013.
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.
$493K
proposed penalties
$443K
current assessed
$298K
paid to date
$145K
outstanding
1,306 assessments are final orders; 42 contested dockets.
Of $201K in penalties contested before the Commission, $152K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-07-07.
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.
27.1%
significant & substantial
2.7%
high negligence or reckless
27.1%
reasonably likely or greater
7.5%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 7.3% low, 90.0% moderate, 2.6% high, 0.1% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2025
ⓘ 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 3.19 and the all-US-mining average was 1.97 cases per 100 workers.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2026 1.74 1.74 0.000
2025 0.00 0.00 0.000
2024 3.10 2.32 0.000
2023 2.40 1.60 0.000
2022 4.73 2.84 0.000
2021 6.11 4.89 0.000
2020 3.61 0.00 0.000
2019 3.77 0.00 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: 2026-08-06
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
1,513
samples
3.00
dust max (mg/m3)
0
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.
980 samples taken by MSHA inspectors, 533 by the operator.
Most-sampled occupations
  • BULLDOZER OPERATOR543
  • HIGHWALL DRILL OPERATOR384
  • HIGHLIFT OPERATOR/FRONT END LOADER180

Silica (quartz)

Last sampled: 2026-06-24
11.9
silica avg (%)
72
samples
45.3
silica max (%)
Most-sampled occupations
  • HIGHWALL DRILL OPERATOR40
  • BULLDOZER OPERATOR29
  • REFUSE TRUCK DRIVER/BACKFILL TRUCK DRIVE2
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: 2026-06-11
1%
over PEL
755
samples
Most-sampled occupations
  • BULLDOZER OPERATOR170
  • HIGHLIFT OPERATOR/FRONT END LOADER137
  • REFUSE TRUCK DRIVER/BACKFILL TRUCK DRIVE110
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.
234 citations taken to the federal commission · 18% of citations on record
  • Settled 213 · 91%
  • Stood as issued 21 · 9%
95%
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 130 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
24%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$201K proposed, $152K 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 2025-06-30. 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 2012-404 Settlement Lesnick 2014 $40K → $15K
KENT 2011-203 Settlement Rae 2011 $27K → $20K
KENT 2012-133 Settlement Lesnick 2012 $14K → $14K
KENT 2010-1434 Settlement Melick 2012 $11K → $8K
KENT 2024-0073 Settlement Sullivan 2024 $9K → $8K
KENT 2023-0051 Settlement Moran 2023 $9K → $7K
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.

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Incident timeline

2026
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2025
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2024
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2023
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2022
6
2021
5
2020
3
2019
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2018
5
2017
6
2016
7
2015
4
2014
4
2013
6
2012
2
2011
7
2010
3
2009
3

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Where Lipari Energy 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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