Mining Incidents

NOVADX Ventures Corporation: 96 MSHA citations controller

MSHA controller ID: 0088713

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
8
Mines on record
2
Years on record
2011–2014
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2010
96
citations
18
significant & substantial
$11,940
proposed penalties
$11,524
paid to date
97% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $416 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2010
140
inspections on record
2,403
inspection hours
4.0
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.
96 citations across 2,403 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, 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.
$12K
proposed penalties
$12K
current assessed
$12K
paid to date
$416
outstanding
90 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2016-11-07.
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.
20.0%
significant & substantial
5.6%
high negligence or reckless
21.1%
reasonably likely or greater
8.9%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 7.8% low, 86.7% moderate, 5.6% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2012
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.
8.89
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US coal mining average was 3.74 and the all-US-mining average was 2.96 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
2012 * 8.89 0.00 0.000
2011 * 7.41 3.71 0.000
2010 * 0.00 0.00 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.

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: 2013-06-27, 13 years ago
98%
within 1.5 mg/m3
65
samples
2.66
dust max (mg/m3)
50 samples taken by MSHA inspectors, 15 by the operator.
Most-sampled occupations
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR17
  • REFUSE TRUCK DRIVER/BACKFILL TRUCK DRIVE12
  • BULLDOZER OPERATOR5

Silica (quartz)

Last sampled: 2011-12-06, 14 years ago
5.7
silica avg (%)
2
samples
6.1
silica max (%)
Most-sampled occupations
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR1

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: 2014-04-02, 12 years ago
0%
over PEL
34
samples
Most-sampled occupations
  • REFUSE TRUCK DRIVER/BACKFILL TRUCK DRIVE4
  • SCOOP CAR OPERATOR3
  • BACKHOE OPERATOR2
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly.

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Incident timeline

2014
1
2013
1
2012
4
2011
2

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Where NOVADX Ventures 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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