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Rifle Coal Company; Anthony Frederick: 367 MSHA citations controller

MSHA controller ID: C15949

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
18
Mines on record
6
Years on record
2001–2009
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
367
citations
142
significant & substantial
$117,170
proposed penalties
$46,559
paid to date
40% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $70,611 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
112
inspections on record
3,424
inspection hours
10.7
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.
367 citations across 3,424 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.
$117K
proposed penalties
$111K
current assessed
$47K
paid to date
$64K
outstanding
362 assessments are final orders; 11 contested dockets.
Of $78K in penalties contested before the Commission, $72K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2009-09-15.
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.
39.1%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
39.0%
reasonably likely or greater
12.2%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 27.9% low, 72.1% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2009
ⓘ 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.
2.69
total case rate
1.34
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US coal mining average was 4.16 and the all-US-mining average was 3.36 cases per 100 workers.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2009 2.69 1.34 0.000
2008 0.41 0.41 0.000
2007 0.00 0.00 0.000
2006 0.00 0.00 0.000
2005 0.61 0.61 0.000
2004 1.73 1.73 0.000
2003 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2002 1.15 1.15 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: 2009-06-01, 17 years ago
97%
within 1.5 mg/m3
408
samples
5.70
dust max (mg/m3)
329 samples taken by MSHA inspectors, 79 by the operator.
Most-sampled occupations
  • BULLDOZER OPERATOR147
  • REFUSE TRUCK DRIVER/BACKFILL TRUCK DRIVE73
  • HIGHLIFT OPERATOR/FRONT END LOADER58

Silica (quartz)

Last sampled: 2009-02-13, 17 years ago
11.9
silica avg (%)
33
samples
23.6
silica max (%)
Most-sampled occupations
  • BULLDOZER OPERATOR16
  • HIGHLIFT OPERATOR/FRONT END LOADER5
  • HIGHWALL DRILL OPERATOR4
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: 2009-02-10, 17 years ago
11%
over PEL
220
samples
Most-sampled occupations
  • BULLDOZER OPERATOR66
  • REFUSE TRUCK DRIVER/BACKFILL TRUCK DRIVE46
  • HIGHLIFT OPERATOR/FRONT END LOADER39
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.
99 citations taken to the federal commission · 27% of citations on record
  • Settled 35 · 35%
  • Stood as issued 64 · 65%
100%
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 38 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
8%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$78K proposed, $72K 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 2009-08-04. 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
KENT 2008-432 Default Lesnick 2010 $36K → $36K
KENT 2008-1333 Settlement Lesnick 2009 $11K → $8K
KENT 2007-464 Settlement Lesnick 2008 $9K → $7K
KENT 2009-1417 Default Lesnick 2011 $8K → $8K
KENT 2008-1026 Settlement Lesnick 2009 $4K → $3K
KENT 2009-411 Default Lesnick 2011 $3K → $3K
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.

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2009
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2008
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2006
3
2005
4
2004
2
2002
3
2001
3

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Where Rifle Coal Company; Anthony Frederick 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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