MP Materials Corporation: 212 MSHA citations controller
MSHA controller ID: 0159521
MP Materials Corporation has had no fatalities among 75 reportable incidents since 2020. MSHA has proposed $167K in penalties since 2021, with $43K outstanding.
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 75
- Mines on record
- 1
- Years on record
- 2020–2026
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2021
212
citations
33
significant & substantial
$166,807
proposed penalties
$123,339
paid to date
74% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $43,468 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2021
76
inspections on record
1,954
inspection hours
10.8
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.212 citations across 1,954 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Imminent-danger orders
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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: 2026-01-07.
On record since 2026.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, 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.$167K
proposed penalties
$167K
current assessed
$123K
paid to date
$43K
outstanding
209 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-07-23.
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.15.7%
significant & substantial
9.0%
high negligence or reckless
15.7%
reasonably likely or greater
31.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 20.5% low, 70.5% moderate, 9.0% high, 0.0% 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 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.1.30
total case rate
0.35
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below 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 | 3.54 | 1.90 | 0.000 |
| 2025 | 1.30 | 0.35 | 0.000 |
| 2024 | 1.74 | 0.00 | 0.000 |
| 2023 | 1.72 | 0.00 | 0.000 |
| 2022 | 0.56 | 0.00 | 0.000 |
| 2021 | 2.16 | 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
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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.Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
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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: 2026-07-21
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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.0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
17
samples
4
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
- Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz7
- Fibers, >5um3
- Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz2
- Arsenic dust1
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.
Top causes
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 29 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS 20 non-fatal
- MACHINERY 8 non-fatal
- OTHER 6 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 5 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE 3 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2026
20
2025
15
2024
13
2023
13
2022
3
2021
8
2020
3
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Where MP Materials Corporation 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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