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Rodney Mays: 118 MSHA citations controller

MSHA controller ID: 0073991

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Mines on record
2
Years on record
2021–2026
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2008
118
citations
28
significant & substantial
$46,217
proposed penalties
$25,727
paid to date
56% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $20,490 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2008
109
inspections on record
1,519
inspection hours
7.8
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.
118 citations across 1,519 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.
$46K
proposed penalties
$46K
current assessed
$26K
paid to date
$20K
outstanding
116 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-04-22.
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.
24.1%
significant & substantial
13.8%
high negligence or reckless
24.1%
reasonably likely or greater
17.2%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 21.6% low, 64.7% moderate, 13.8% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2020
ⓘ 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 2.08 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
2020 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2019 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2018 0.00 0.00 0.000
2008 * 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: 2026-01-13
97%
within 1.5 mg/m3
237
samples
5.79
dust max (mg/m3)
5
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.
143 samples taken by MSHA inspectors, 94 by the operator.
Most-sampled occupations
  • BULLDOZER OPERATOR86
  • HIGHWALL DRILL OPERATOR78
  • REFUSE TRUCK DRIVER/BACKFILL TRUCK DRIVE19

Silica (quartz)

Last sampled: 2020-06-23, 6 years ago
11.7
silica avg (%)
23
samples
25.1
silica max (%)
Most-sampled occupations
  • HIGHWALL DRILL OPERATOR16
  • BULLDOZER OPERATOR5
  • BACKHOE OPERATOR1
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: 2026-01-13
0%
over PEL
88
samples
Most-sampled occupations
  • BULLDOZER OPERATOR26
  • REFUSE TRUCK DRIVER/BACKFILL TRUCK DRIVE14
  • HIGHLIFT OPERATOR/FRONT END LOADER12
See US mines ranked by noise samples over the legal limit.
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly.

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Where Rodney Mays 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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