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Roy D Simmons Jr controller

MSHA controller ID: M05816

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Fatalities
1
Total incidents
13
Mines on record
2
Years on record
1993–2020
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
266
citations
64
significant & substantial
$103,006
proposed penalties
$89,068
paid to date
86% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $13,938 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
142
inspections on record
2,367
inspection hours
11.2
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.
266 citations across 2,367 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.
$103K
proposed penalties
$89K
current assessed
$89K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
262 assessments are final orders; 21 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-05-06.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

Top causes

Incident timeline

2020
1
2013
1
2011
1
2006
2 (1f)
2005
2
2002
1
1997
1
1996
2
1995
1
1993
1

Operators under this controller

Mines on record

Fatalities under this controller

1 recorded
June 12, 2006 VA · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator Fatality · FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
Rockbridge Stone Products Inc · Struck by falling object

Employee was removing hydraulic line on Volvo loader. He had raised the bucket, remove front cover, taken 3 bolts out of line. The line then blew off then the main boom cylinder came down on top of him pinning him between differential and boom causing accident.

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