Joe Valis; Rufus W West controller
MSHA controller ID: 0098893
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 116
- Mines on record
- 5
- Years on record
- 2011–2016
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2011
1,132
citations
328
significant & substantial
$478,518
proposed penalties
$316,309
paid to date
66% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $162,209 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2011
250
inspections on record
9,718
inspection hours
11.6
citations per 100 inspection hours
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This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.1,132 citations across 9,718 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Penalty disposition
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Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.$479K
proposed penalties
$380K
current assessed
$316K
paid to date
$63K
outstanding
1,110 assessments are final orders; 87 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2016-11-02.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Top causes
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK 29 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS 28 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 16 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE 13 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 10 non-fatal
- MACHINERY 4 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2016
1
2014
18
2013
41
2012
29
2011
27
Operators under this controller
Mines on record
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The full compliance file on Joe Valis; Rufus W West
A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.