National Steel Corp: 494 MSHA citations controller
MSHA controller ID: M07233
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 422
- Mines on record
- 2
- Years on record
- 1984–2003
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
494
citations
133
significant & substantial
$140,998
proposed penalties
$72,237
paid to date
51% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $68,761 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
16
inspections on record
1,618
inspection hours
30.5
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.494 citations across 1,618 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.$141K
proposed penalties
$72K
current assessed
$72K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
489 assessments are final orders; 17 contested dockets.
Of $94K in penalties contested before the Commission, $25K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2003-01-30.
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.27.2%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
27.8%
reasonably likely or greater
37.2%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.6% none, 30.3% low, 69.1% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2003
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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.4.59
total case rate
2.29
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 3.76 and the all-US-mining average was 4.43 cases per 100 workers.
| Year | total case rate | days-away | fatal |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 4.59 | 2.29 | 0.000 |
| 2002 | 5.05 | 3.15 | 0.000 |
| 2001 | 3.56 | 2.10 | 0.000 |
| 2000 | 5.01 | 3.11 | 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: 2003-03-13, 23 years ago
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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.6%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
36
samples
18
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
- Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz11 over
- Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz17
- Respirable dust, <.1mg8
- Fibers, >5um7
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LAKE20020013M | Settlement | Zielinski | 2003 | $16K → $4K |
| LAKE20020016M | Settlement | Zielinski | 2003 | $13K → $3K |
| LAKE20020014M | Settlement | Zielinski | 2003 | $12K → $3K |
| LAKE20020048M | Settlement | Zielinski | 2003 | $11K → $3K |
| LAKE20020015M | Settlement | Zielinski | 2003 | $11K → $2K |
| LAKE20020017M | Settlement | Zielinski | 2003 | $11K → $3K |
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.
Top causes
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS 137 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 100 non-fatal
- MACHINERY 68 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 63 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE 17 non-fatal
- STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT 12 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2003
8
2002
24
2001
17
2000
30
1999
18
1998
21
1997
40
1996
55
1995
18
1994
3
1993
21
1992
32
1991
26
1990
52
1989
54
1985
1
1984
2
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Where National Steel Corp 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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