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Rag Aktiengesellschaft: 6 recorded fatalities controller

MSHA controller ID: C15532

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Fatalities
6
Total incidents
1,736
Mines on record
30
Years on record
1990–2005
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
5,519
citations
1,900
significant & substantial
$1,138,208
proposed penalties
$958,433
paid to date
84% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $179,775 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
3,029
inspections on record
97,810
inspection hours
5.6
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.
5,519 citations across 97,810 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.
$1.1M
proposed penalties
$985K
current assessed
$958K
paid to date
$26K
outstanding
5,354 assessments are final orders; 44 contested dockets.
Of $267K in penalties contested before the Commission, $120K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2006-05-16.
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.
35.1%
significant & substantial
2.4%
high negligence or reckless
35.4%
reasonably likely or greater
12.7%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.2% none, 9.6% low, 87.8% moderate, 2.3% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2006
ⓘ 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.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US coal mining average was 4.87 and the all-US-mining average was 3.91 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
2006 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2005 1.62 1.62 0.000
2004 6.59 4.34 0.000
2003 6.32 4.36 0.065
2002 6.43 4.21 0.034
2001 6.60 3.74 0.000
2000 8.92 5.77 0.070
* 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: 2005-10-26, 20 years ago
87%
within 1.5 mg/m3
11,005
samples
9.76
dust max (mg/m3)
5,298 samples taken by MSHA inspectors, 5,707 by the operator.
Most-sampled occupations
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR4,117
  • SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (STANDARD SIDE)948
  • LONGWALL OPERATOR (TAILGATE SIDE)436

Silica (quartz)

Last sampled: 2005-05-27, 21 years ago
5.0
silica avg (%)
920
samples
40.3
silica max (%)
Most-sampled occupations
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR436
  • ROOF BOLTER (TWIN HEAD) (RETURN SIDE)90
  • LONGWALL OPERATOR (TAILGATE SIDE)75
See US coal mines ranked by silica in their dust samples.

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: 2005-05-05, 21 years ago
32%
over PEL
493
samples
Most-sampled occupations
  • SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (STANDARD SIDE)75
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR69
  • ROOF BOLTER (SINGLE HEAD)43
See US mines ranked by noise samples over the legal limit.
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, 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.
19 citations taken to the federal commission · 0% of citations on record
  • Settled 15 · 79%
  • Stood as issued 1 · 5%
  • Vacated or withdrawn 3 · 16%
80%
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 15 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
87%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$117K proposed, $15K 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 2005-02-16. 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
LAKE 2004-147 Dismissal Feldman 2005 $100K → $10K
WEST20020207 Settlement Manning 2003 $45K → $26K
LAKE 2004-102 Dismissal Bulluck 2004 $22K → $17K
PENN20010094 Settlement Feldman 2001 $19K → $13K
PENN20030004 Settlement Feldman 2003 $18K → $11K
PENN 2004-181 Settlement Zielinski 2005 $8K → $7K
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.

Top causes

Incident timeline

2005
13
2004
194 (1f)
2003
290 (2f)
2002
277 (1f)
2001
274
2000
368 (2f)
1999
209
1998
40
1997
31
1996
21
1995
6
1994
3
1993
1
1992
2
1991
3
1990
4

Operators under this controller

Mines on record

Fatalities under this controller

6 recorded
September 9, 2003 WY · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Alpha Coal West, Inc. · Struck by flying object

VICTIM'S 3/4 TON PICK-UP TRUCK WAS PULLING SHOVEL TRAILING CABLE AND HAD BECOME STUCK OR THERE WAS LOSS OF TRACTION; THERE WAS A 2ND PICK-UP HOOKED UP TO THE 1ST TRUCK WITH A 1"NYLON ROPE. TH E ROPE WAS PLACED ON A HOOK WHILE TOWING; THE HOOK ON THE TOWING TRUCK FAILED CAUSING THE HOOK TO SLINGSHOT THROUGH THE WINDSHIELD OF THE TOWED TRUCK, STRIKING THE VICTIM.

February 15, 2003 IL · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) Fatality · FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL
Wabash Mine Holding Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EMPLOYEE WAS RIB BOLTING CORNER IN #7 ENTRY AND NOTICED LOOSE RIB. HE WAS WALKING ALONG SIDE OF ROOF BOLTING MACHINE TO OBTAIN A SCALING BAR WHEN RIB FELL, PINNING HIM AGAINST THE MACHINE.

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Where Rag Aktiengesellschaft 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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