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Snyder Associated Companies Inc: 1,382 MSHA citations controller

MSHA controller ID: M00734

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
458
Mines on record
13
Years on record
1983–2026
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
1,382
citations
287
significant & substantial
$341,714
proposed penalties
$272,747
paid to date
80% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $68,967 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
775
inspections on record
15,324
inspection hours
9.0
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.
1,382 citations across 15,324 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Imminent-danger orders
ⓘ A Section 107(a) order removes miners from an area when an inspector finds an imminent danger. Each order is lifted once the condition is corrected, so this counts orders issued, not orders now in effect.
4
Section 107(a) orders
Most recent order: 2019-03-13.
On record since 2012.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, 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.
$342K
proposed penalties
$274K
current assessed
$273K
paid to date
$1K
outstanding
1,367 assessments are final orders; 41 contested dockets.
Of $121K in penalties contested before the Commission, $53K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-05-12.
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.
20.9%
significant & substantial
7.9%
high negligence or reckless
20.6%
reasonably likely or greater
46.1%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.6% none, 41.3% low, 50.2% moderate, 7.9% high, 0.1% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2025
ⓘ 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.
2.50
total case rate
2.00
days-away rate
0.000
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 1.00 1.00 0.000
2025 2.50 2.00 0.000
2024 0.99 0.99 0.000
2023 0.51 0.51 0.000
2022 1.98 0.99 0.000
2021 3.92 1.47 0.000
2020 2.69 1.79 0.000
2019 3.98 3.54 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
ⓘ 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: 2014-07-15, 12 years ago
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
30
samples
0.82
dust max (mg/m3)
30 samples taken by MSHA inspectors, 0 by the operator.
Most-sampled occupations
  • HIGHLIFT OPERATOR/FRONT END LOADER24
  • CAR DROPPER2
  • TIPPLE OPERATOR2

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: 2014-07-15, 12 years ago
0%
over PEL
20
samples
Most-sampled occupations
  • HIGHLIFT OPERATOR/FRONT END LOADER14
  • TIPPLE OPERATOR3
  • CAR DROPPER2
See US mines ranked by noise samples over the legal limit.

Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
ⓘ 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: 2026-05-13
9%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
431
samples
229
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz10210 over
  • Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz359 over
  • Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz241 over
  • Calcium oxide61 over

Area samples (mill and shop air)

Last sampled: 2026-03-18
7
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
ⓘ 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.
83 citations taken to the federal commission · 6% of citations on record
  • Settled 74 · 89%
  • Stood as issued 7 · 8%
  • Still open 2 · 2%
61%
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 57 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
56%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$120K proposed, $53K 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 2026-06-24. 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
PENN 2018-0062 Settlement Rae 2018 $22K → $7K
PENN 2025-0109 Settlement Young 2026 $12K → $7K
PENN 2016-270M Default Lesnick 2017 $8K → $8K
PENN 2023-0040 Settlement Paez 2023 $7K → $662
PENN 2026-0019 Settlement Lewis 2026 $7K → $1K
PENN 2018-0159 Settlement Lewis 2018 $5K → $800
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.

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Incident timeline

2026
2
2025
7
2024
5
2023
1
2022
5
2021
8
2020
7
2019
12
2018
13
2017
5
2016
7
2015
9
2014
16
2013
14
2012
8
2011
10
2010
5
2009
11
2008
8
2007
8
2006
9
2005
12
2004
4
2003
5
2002
11
2001
14
2000
13
1999
12
1998
9
1997
14
1996
3
1995
15
1994
15
1993
17
1992
19
1991
23
1990
24
1989
17
1988
15
1987
13
1986
20
1985
9
1984
3
1983
1

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Where Snyder Associated Companies Inc 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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