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Michael K Farmer; Elliott (Bud) E Farmer: 1,013 MSHA citations controller

MSHA controller ID: M02148

Michael K Farmer; Elliott (Bud) E Farmer has had no fatalities among 163 reportable incidents since 1984. MSHA has proposed $170K in penalties since 2000, with $453 outstanding.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
163
Mines on record
33
Years on record
1984–2026
Public-issuer link

Summit Materials, Inc. (SUM) discloses mines under this controller in its SEC Dodd-Frank Section 1503 (EX-95) mine-safety filings.

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Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
1,013
citations
179
significant & substantial
$169,582
proposed penalties
$166,265
paid to date
98% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $3,317 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
979
inspections on record
12,699
inspection hours
8.0
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.
1,013 citations across 12,699 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: 2017-05-16.
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.
$170K
proposed penalties
$167K
current assessed
$166K
paid to date
$453
outstanding
996 assessments are final orders; 10 contested dockets.
Of $10K in penalties contested before the Commission, $7K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-08-07.
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.
17.8%
significant & substantial
4.1%
high negligence or reckless
17.8%
reasonably likely or greater
53.6%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.2% none, 24.5% low, 71.2% moderate, 4.1% high, 0.0% 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 and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year. Employment reports reach back to 1983, but those earlier years come from MSHA's archived file format and are not used in rates.
2.54
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.65 and the all-US-mining average was 1.98 cases per 100 workers.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2026 5.18 0.47 0.000
2025 2.54 0.00 0.000
2024 1.34 0.00 0.000
2023 2.18 0.00 0.000
2022 2.09 0.00 0.000
2021 1.90 0.24 0.000
2020 2.94 0.24 0.000
2019 0.95 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.

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: 2026-09-23
7%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
539
samples
147
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1468 over
  • Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz172 over
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg326
  • Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz41

Area samples (mill and shop air)

Last sampled: 2024-09-26
2
samples
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.
24 citations taken to the federal commission · 2% of citations on record
  • Settled 19 · 79%
  • Stood as issued 5 · 21%
83%
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 6 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
28%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$10K proposed, $7K 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 2024-10-17. 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 2020-0234 Settlement Manning 2021 $3K → $2K
CENT 2013-624M Settlement Gill 2013 $2K → $900
CENT 2022-0229 Settlement Manning 2023 $2K → $1K
CENT 2025-0005 Settlement Bulluck 2025 $2K → $2K
CENT 2017-0153 Default Lesnick 2017 $722 → $722
CENT 2021-0008 Default 2021 $482 → $482
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.

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2022
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2020
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2019
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2015
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2013
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2012
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2011
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2005
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1991
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1989
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1988
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1987
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1984
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