R A Newsome: 76 MSHA citations controller
MSHA controller ID: M00943
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 4
- Mines on record
- 1
- Years on record
- 1992–2013
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
76
citations
15
significant & substantial
$8,999
proposed penalties
$8,697
paid to date
97% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $302 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
95
inspections on record
1,017
inspection hours
7.5
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.76 citations across 1,017 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.$9K
proposed penalties
$9K
current assessed
$9K
paid to date
$302
outstanding
76 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-06-08.
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.19.7%
significant & substantial
9.2%
high negligence or reckless
21.1%
reasonably likely or greater
53.9%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 1.3% low, 89.5% moderate, 9.2% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
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: 2026-06-10
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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
23
samples
2
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
- Respirable dust, <.1mg21
- Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz2
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 2 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS 1 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE 1 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2013
3
1992
1
Operators under this controller
Mines on record
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Where R A Newsome 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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