Mining Incidents

Mackie Clemens Fuel Company: 664 MSHA citations controller

MSHA controller ID: M01082

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
184
Mines on record
3
Years on record
1983–2018
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
664
citations
231
significant & substantial
$461,331
proposed penalties
$356,098
paid to date
77% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $105,234 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
122
inspections on record
2,815
inspection hours
23.6
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.
664 citations across 2,815 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.
2
Section 107(a) orders
Most recent order: 2015-07-15.
On record since 2015.
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.
$461K
proposed penalties
$356K
current assessed
$356K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
653 assessments are final orders; 43 contested dockets.
Of $260K in penalties contested before the Commission, $155K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2018-08-31.
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.
35.2%
significant & substantial
5.5%
high negligence or reckless
35.4%
reasonably likely or greater
68.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.2% none, 8.8% low, 85.5% moderate, 5.5% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2015
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.
32.03
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 2.26 and the all-US-mining average was 2.72 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
2015 * 32.03 0.00 0.000
2014 * 14.89 3.72 0.000
2013 * 25.15 14.37 0.000
2012 * 7.53 0.00 0.000
2011 * 8.69 0.00 0.000
2010 * 6.85 0.00 0.000
2009 * 46.57 7.76 0.000
2008 * 32.27 3.59 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.

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: 2015-07-08, 11 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
19
samples
14
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz14
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz3
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg2
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.
85 citations taken to the federal commission · 13% of citations on record
  • Settled 67 · 79%
  • Stood as issued 18 · 21%
78%
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 77 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
41%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$249K proposed, $148K 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 2018-03-06. 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
CENT 2015-0423 Settlement Paez 2015 $27K → $5K
CENT 2016-0085 Settlement Miller 2016 $21K → $20K
CENT 2008-9M Settlement Manning 2008 $20K → $3K
CENT 2011-1105M Settlement Lesnick 2011 $13K → $8K
CENT 2010-155M Settlement Lesnick 2010 $13K → $4K
CENT 2014-0526 Settlement McCarthy 2015 $11K → $9K
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.

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Incident timeline

2018
1
2017
4
2016
1
2015
6
2014
4
2013
7
2012
2
2011
2
2010
1
2009
12
2008
9
2007
11
2006
1
2005
2
2004
6
2002
6
2001
17
2000
13
1999
5
1998
11
1997
8
1996
2
1995
6
1994
5
1993
4
1992
5
1991
2
1990
1
1989
1
1988
1
1987
8
1986
3
1985
9
1984
1
1983
7

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Where Mackie Clemens Fuel Company 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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