W R Grace & Company: 134 MSHA citations controller
MSHA controller ID: M01722
W R Grace & Company has had no fatalities among 235 reportable incidents since 1983. MSHA has proposed $17K in penalties since 2000.
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 235
- Mines on record
- 8
- Years on record
- 1983–2021
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
134
citations
23
significant & substantial
$17,411
proposed penalties
$17,411
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
109
inspections on record
2,336
inspection hours
5.7
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.134 citations across 2,336 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.$17K
proposed penalties
$17K
current assessed
$17K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
134 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2020-09-30.
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.17.2%
significant & substantial
6.0%
high negligence or reckless
17.2%
reasonably likely or greater
64.9%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 14.2% low, 79.9% moderate, 6.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2021
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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.0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.87 and the all-US-mining average was 2.19 cases per 100 workers.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
| Year | total case rate | days-away | fatal |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 * | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.000 |
| 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 * | 4.30 | 4.30 | 0.000 |
| 2014 * | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.000 |
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
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: 2019-04-17, 7 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.6%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
67
samples
31
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
- Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz242 over
- Fibers, >5um26
- Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz9
- Asbestos 2.0f/ml5
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.
Top causes
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS 88 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 53 non-fatal
- MACHINERY 27 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 26 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE 14 non-fatal
- DUST DISEASE OF LUNGS 7 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2021
1
2015
1
2011
3
2009
2
2008
2
2007
1
2006
1
2005
2
2004
2
2003
1
2002
2
2001
7
2000
3
1999
2
1998
6
1997
4
1996
5
1995
3
1994
7
1993
6
1992
8
1991
13
1990
20
1989
20
1988
13
1987
12
1986
10
1985
25
1984
30
1983
23
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Where W R Grace & Company 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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