What are White Mountain Mining Co., LLC's MSHA penalties?

White Mountain Mining Co., LLC has $212K in proposed MSHA penalties on record, $99K paid, and $2K outstanding.

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White Mountain Mining Co., LLC: 624 MSHA citations controller

MSHA controller ID: C06286

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 141
Mines on record: 10
Years on record: 1983–2005

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2001

624

citations

265

significant & substantial

$212,434

proposed penalties

$98,678

paid to date

46% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $113,756 gap.

Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.

Inspection activity

MSHA inspections since 2000

163

inspections on record

6,563

inspection hours

9.5

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.

624 citations across 6,563 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.

$212K

proposed penalties

$100K

current assessed

$99K

paid to date

$2K

outstanding

604 assessments are final orders; 10 contested dockets.

Of $151K in penalties contested before the Commission, $39K was upheld in final decisions.

As of the most recent assessment on 2006-07-20.

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.

43.4%

significant & substantial

6.2%

high negligence or reckless

43.3%

reasonably likely or greater

25.6%

permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs

Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 2.1% low, 91.6% moderate, 6.2% high, 0.0% reckless.

Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.

Injury rate, 2005

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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.

7.47

total case rate

5.98

days-away rate

0.000

fatality rate

Above average. The US coal mining average was 5.11 and the all-US-mining average was 4.21 cases per 100 workers.

Year	total case rate	days-away
2005	7.47	5.98
2004	10.85	9.30
2003	23.07	21.91
2001	12.84	12.84

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.

Respirable coal dust

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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: 2005-10-16, 20 years ago

90%

within 1.5 mg/m3

460

samples

7.09

dust max (mg/m3)

141 samples taken by MSHA inspectors, 319 by the operator.

Most-sampled occupations

CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR316
SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (STANDARD SIDE)49
ROOF BOLTER (SINGLE HEAD)27

Silica (quartz)

Last sampled: 2005-10-14, 20 years ago

5.8

silica avg (%)

samples

25.1

silica max (%)

Most-sampled occupations

CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR20

See US coal mines ranked by silica in their dust samples.

Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, 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.

106 citations taken to the federal commission · 17% of citations on record

Settled 106 · 100%

100%

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 64 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%

74%

Penalty reduction in decided contests

$151K proposed, $39K 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 2005-11-18. 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
WEVA 2006-22	Settlement	Lesnick	2006	$43K → $11K
WEVA 2005-12	Settlement	Zielinski	2006	$42K → $11K
WEVA 2005-40	Settlement	Zielinski	2006	$23K → $6K
WEVA 2006-37	Settlement	Lesnick	2006	$19K → $5K
WEVA 2005-11	Settlement	Zielinski	2006	$11K → $3K
WEVA 2005-1	Settlement	Bulluck	2006	$6K → $1K

Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.

Top causes

FALL OF ROOF OR BACK 48 non-fatal
HANDLING OF MATERIALS 32 non-fatal
MACHINERY 20 non-fatal
POWERED HAULAGE 19 non-fatal
SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 7 non-fatal
HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 4 non-fatal

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Where White Mountain Mining Co., LLC 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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