Mining Incidents

Randall K Taylor; Ryan Johns; Todd Case: 71 MSHA citations controller

MSHA controller ID: 0167680

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Mines on record
0
Years on record
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2022
71
citations
9
significant & substantial
$10,797
proposed penalties
$10,797
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2022
28
inspections on record
1,324
inspection hours
5.4
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.
71 citations across 1,324 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.
$11K
proposed penalties
$11K
current assessed
$11K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
71 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-05-07.
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.
12.7%
significant & substantial
1.4%
high negligence or reckless
12.7%
reasonably likely or greater
19.7%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 43.7% low, 54.9% moderate, 1.4% high, 0.0% 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.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
No reportable injury cases in any year shown. Employee-hours were reported in each of those years, so these are true zeros rather than missing data. Citations, listed in the compliance record above, are inspector-found violations and are counted separately from worker injuries.
Below average. The US coal mining average was 3.19 and the all-US-mining average was 1.97 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
2025 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2024 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2023 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2022 * 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: 2026-05-11
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
104
samples
0.79
dust max (mg/m3)
0
over MSHA ECV
The excessive concentration value (ECV) is MSHA's own per-sample enforcement threshold, which builds in measurement uncertainty; a sample over its ECV can trigger a citation. The count covers only samples MSHA assigned an ECV.
73 samples taken by MSHA inspectors, 31 by the operator.
Most-sampled occupations
  • BULLDOZER OPERATOR46
  • HIGHLIFT OPERATOR/FRONT END LOADER16
  • UTILITY MAN13

Silica (quartz)

Last sampled: 2025-12-18
2.9
silica avg (%)
6
samples
6.3
silica max (%)
Most-sampled occupations
  • BULLDOZER OPERATOR6

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: 2026-03-09
5%
over PEL
39
samples
Most-sampled occupations
  • HIGHLIFT OPERATOR/FRONT END LOADER8
  • UTILITY MAN8
  • BULLDOZER OPERATOR7
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly.

No reportable incidents on file.

MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents associated with this controller.

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Where Randall K Taylor; Ryan Johns; Todd Case stands on silica, penalties, and injury rate

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