95% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,376 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
45
inspections on record
652
inspection hours
n/a
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.
Rate withheld: 652 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
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.
$29K
proposed penalties
$27K
current assessed
$27K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
133 assessments are final orders; 5 contested dockets.
Of $6K in penalties contested before the Commission, $4K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2005-03-10.
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.
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 metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.77 and the all-US-mining average was 2.08 cases per 100 workers.
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
2017
0.00
0.00
0.000
2016
0.00
0.00
0.000
2015
0.00
0.00
0.000
2014
0.00
0.00
0.000
2013
0.00
0.00
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.
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: 2019-06-20, 7 years ago
8%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
72
samples
63
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz285 over
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz30
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz8
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz5
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.
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.
August 21, 1998GA · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanFatality · SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Albion Kaolin Company · Caught in, under or between collapsing material or buildings
EMPLOYEES WERE VACUUMING OUT HOPPER CAR. HE WAS STANDING ON LADDER INSIDE CAR SHOVELING CLAY OFF SIDES OF CAR. HE ASKED EE TO TELL ANOTHER EE TO SHUT OFF VACUUM. I.NAME COULD NOT HEAR HIM SO H E WENT DOWN AND SHUT OFF VACUUM HIMSELF. HE IMMEDIATELY WENT BACK UP ON TOP OF CAR TO CHECK ON FRANK. HE COULD NOT SEE HIM. THE CLAY HAD CAVED IN ON TOP OF HIM: HE COULD ONLY SEE HIS LANYARD.
November 22, 1989GA · Metal/Non-Metalwelder (shop)Fatality · MACHINERY
THE EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING DISASSEMBLE BOOM,BOOM FELL ON HIM CRUSHED HIS NECK AND CHEST.
For insurers, brokers, and safety consultants
Where Sued-Chemie AG 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.