Timothy A Buechel: 371 MSHA citations controller
MSHA controller ID: M02858
Timothy A Buechel has had no fatalities among 989 reportable incidents since 1983. MSHA has proposed $94K in penalties since 2000.
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 989
- Mines on record
- 6
- Years on record
- 1983–2016
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
371
citations
77
significant & substantial
$94,415
proposed penalties
$92,661
paid to date
98% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,754 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
202
inspections on record
3,239
inspection hours
11.5
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.371 citations across 3,239 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Imminent-danger orders
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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.2
Section 107(a) orders
Most recent order: 2011-09-21.
On record since 2011.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, 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.$94K
proposed penalties
$93K
current assessed
$93K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
369 assessments are final orders; 5 contested dockets.
Of $23K in penalties contested before the Commission, $21K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2016-11-30.
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.20.9%
significant & substantial
6.0%
high negligence or reckless
20.9%
reasonably likely or greater
37.4%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 6.0% low, 88.1% moderate, 6.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2016
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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 and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year. Employment reports reach back to 1983, but those earlier years come from MSHA's archived file format and are not used in rates.9.40
total case rate
3.13
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 2.17 and the all-US-mining average was 2.59 cases per 100 workers.
| Year | total case rate | days-away | fatal |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 9.40 | 3.13 | 0.000 |
| 2015 | 10.27 | 0.73 | 0.000 |
| 2014 | 14.86 | 3.13 | 0.000 |
| 2013 | 5.87 | 1.68 | 0.000 |
| 2012 | 19.95 | 5.54 | 0.000 |
| 2011 | 12.94 | 3.53 | 0.000 |
| 2010 | 24.34 | 5.79 | 0.000 |
| 2009 | 10.18 | 4.36 | 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: 2015-04-08, 11 years ago
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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.24%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
39
samples
37
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
- Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz185 over
- Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz94 over
- Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz8
- Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz2
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.
23
citations taken to the federal commission · 6% of citations on record
- Settled 23 · 100%
92%
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 12 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
8%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$23K proposed, $21K 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 2010-05-24. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LAKE 2010-153M | Prevail | Bulluck | 2014 | $8K → $8K |
| LAKE 2010-154M | Settlement | Bulluck | 2014 | $7K → $7K |
| LAKE 2008-406M | Settlement | Bulluck | 2014 | $6K → $4K |
| LAKE 2010-753M | Settlement | Manning | 2012 | $1K → $677 |
| LAKE 2005-20M | Settlement | Lesnick | 2005 | $203 → $150 |
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.
Top causes
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS 608 non-fatal
- MACHINERY 114 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 108 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 57 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE 44 non-fatal
- OTHER 20 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2016
12
2015
15
2014
19
2013
8
2012
18
2011
11
2010
22
2009
7
2008
61
2007
55
2006
71
2005
88
2004
63
2003
65
2002
51
2001
63
2000
48
1999
24
1998
34
1997
45
1996
38
1995
46
1994
19
1993
20
1992
26
1991
17
1990
31
1989
11
1983
1
Operators under this controller
Mines on record
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- BUECHEL STONE CORP - FDL WI
- Sabel Quarry WI
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Where Timothy A Buechel 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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