Stillwater Mining Company · Contact with electrical current
The employee was performing routine preventative maintenance on a transformer when EE was fatally electrocuted.
Sibanye Stillwater Limited: 4 recorded fatalities controller
MSHA controller ID: 0134661
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Public-issuer link
APPLIED INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGIES INC (AIT) discloses mines under this controller in its SEC Dodd-Frank Section 1503 (EX-95) mine-safety filings.
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2017
3,227
citations
501
significant & substantial
$2,271,900
proposed penalties
$1,506,913
paid to date
66% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $764,986 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Labor enforcement (WHD)
US Labor Department wage findings since 2002
2
labor cases
$599,636
back wages owed
750
employees affected
Violation types
Wage & hour (FLSA) (1)
Source: US DOL Wage and Hour Division enforcement records, matched by employer name and state.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2017
349
inspections on record
47,514
inspection hours
6.8
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.3,227 citations across 47,514 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.$2.3M
proposed penalties
$2.0M
current assessed
$1.5M
paid to date
$448K
outstanding
2,976 assessments are final orders; 93 contested dockets.
Of $702K in penalties contested before the Commission, $385K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-07-13.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
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Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.15.7%
significant & substantial
4.5%
high negligence or reckless
15.8%
reasonably likely or greater
38.2%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.1% none, 13.4% low, 82.0% moderate, 4.5% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2025
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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.2.19
total case rate
1.09
days-away rate
0.137
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.65 and the all-US-mining average was 1.97 cases per 100 workers.
| Year | total case rate | days-away | fatal |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2.12 | 0.80 | 0.000 |
| 2025 | 2.19 | 1.09 | 0.137 |
| 2024 | 3.17 | 2.26 | 0.000 |
| 2023 | 2.92 | 1.94 | 0.000 |
| 2022 | 1.86 | 1.17 | 0.000 |
| 2021 | 3.03 | 1.91 | 0.132 |
| 2020 | 3.57 | 1.99 | 0.000 |
| 2019 | 3.77 | 2.69 | 0.000 |
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
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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.Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
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Many samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.
Last sampled: 2026-07-23
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Many samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.15%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
220
samples
142
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
- Diesel particulate (total carbon)11321 over
- Respirable dust, <.1mg36
- Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz34
- Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz20
Area samples (mill and shop air)
Last sampled: 2026-07-1222
samples
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly. Metal/nonmetal contaminant figures come from MSHA's Personal Health Samples and Area Samples files (public record), updated weekly.
When citations were contested
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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.
405
citations taken to the federal commission · 13% of citations on record
- Settled 272 · 67%
- Stood as issued 13 · 3%
- Vacated or withdrawn 2 · 0%
- Still open 118 · 29%
63%
S&S designation survived the contest
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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 139 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
45%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$704K proposed, $385K 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 2026-07-21. Vacated and withdrawn citations are removed from the file this view attributes through, so that outcome is slightly undercounted here.
Contested penalties
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WEST 2022-0211 | Dismissal | Miller | 2022 | $75K → $0 |
| WEST 2023-0017 | Dismissal | Simonton | 2023 | $42K → $42K |
| WEST 2018-0183 | Settlement | Manning | 2019 | $38K → $32K |
| WEST 2020-0363 | Settlement | Manning | 2021 | $37K → $17K |
| WEST 2026-0010 | Settlement | Young | 2026 | $36K → $5K |
| WEST 2021-0011 | Settlement | Miller | 2021 | $33K → $14K |
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.
Top causes
- POWERED HAULAGE 2 fatalities · 41 non-fatal
- MACHINERY 1 fatality · 52 non-fatal
- ELECTRICAL 1 fatality · 1 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS 85 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 63 non-fatal
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK 56 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2026
8
2025
22 (1f)
2024
42
2023
58 (1f)
2022
37
2021
56 (2f)
2020
66
2019
63
2018
52
2017
28
Operators under this controller
Mines on record
Fatalities under this controller
4 recorded
Stillwater Mining Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
Tangled in drill steel while installing ground support.
June 9, 2021
MT · Metal/Non-Metal
bull gang foreman, labor foreman, leadman, section foreman, shift boss
Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Stillwater Mining Company · Struck against a moving object
On June 9th, 2021 at 2:00 pm the operator was made aware of a collision underground between a locomotive and a UTV resulting in a fatal incident.
June 9, 2021
MT · Metal/Non-Metal
bull gang foreman, labor foreman, leadman, section foreman, shift boss
Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Stillwater Mining Company · Struck against a moving object
On June 9th, 2021 at 2:00 pm the operator was made aware of a collision underground between a locomotive and a UTV resulting in a Fatal incident.
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Where Sibanye Stillwater Limited 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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