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Polycor Inc: 962 MSHA citations controller

MSHA controller ID: M12431

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
235
Mines on record
24
Years on record
2004–2026
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
962
citations
265
significant & substantial
$761,470
proposed penalties
$523,347
paid to date
69% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $238,123 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Labor enforcement (WHD)
US Labor Department wage findings since 2004
1
labor cases
$3,375
back wages owed
3
employees affected
Violation types
Wage & hour (FLSA) (1)
Source: US DOL Wage and Hour Division enforcement records, matched by employer name and state.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
554
inspections on record
10,715
inspection hours
9.0
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.
962 citations across 10,715 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: 2023-08-11.
On record since 2018.
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.
$761K
proposed penalties
$531K
current assessed
$523K
paid to date
$8K
outstanding
935 assessments are final orders; 22 contested dockets.
Of $425K in penalties contested before the Commission, $195K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-05-27.
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.
27.9%
significant & substantial
7.7%
high negligence or reckless
28.2%
reasonably likely or greater
50.9%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.1% none, 20.3% low, 71.9% moderate, 7.3% high, 0.4% 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, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
7.12
total case rate
3.20
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 1.97 cases per 100 workers.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2026 6.28 4.19 0.000
2025 7.12 3.20 0.000
2024 10.13 3.62 0.000
2023 5.59 3.50 0.000
2022 7.28 3.12 0.000
2021 9.24 3.08 0.000
2020 7.64 3.40 0.000
2019 8.67 1.88 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: 2026-04-21
15%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
365
samples
175
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz8513 over
  • Diesel particulate (total carbon)2712 over
  • Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz252 over
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg103

Area samples (mill and shop air)

Last sampled: 2026-04-21
17
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.
85 citations taken to the federal commission · 9% of citations on record
  • Settled 71 · 84%
  • Stood as issued 9 · 11%
  • Vacated or withdrawn 4 · 5%
  • Still open 1 · 1%
70%
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 43 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
54%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$425K proposed, $195K 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 2026-05-26. 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
WEST 2009-833M Settlement Manning 2012 $125K → $55K
YORK 2020-0090 Settlement Bulluck 2021 $74K → $4K
WEST 2008-475M Settlement Manning 2009 $35K → $25K
WEST 2008-133M Settlement Manning 2009 $35K → $20K
WEST 2008-1108M Settlement Manning 2009 $31K → $16K
WEST 2009-77M Settlement Manning 2010 $27K → $16K
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.

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Incident timeline

2026
9
2025
20
2024
28
2023
17
2022
22
2021
24
2020
19
2019
23
2018
18
2017
14
2016
8
2015
4
2013
1
2011
1
2010
1
2009
4
2008
6
2006
8
2005
7
2004
1

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Where Polycor Inc 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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