Hard Rock Inc · Contact with electrical current
Contractor (electrician) was working in building. It is unknown just what happened. The electrician contacted energized conductors while installing an electrical circuit.
William Arness: 1 recorded fatality controller
MSHA controller ID: M14351
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Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
74
citations
20
significant & substantial
$46,073
proposed penalties
$30,573
paid to date
66% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $15,500 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
61
inspections on record
881
inspection hours
n/a
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.Rate withheld: 881 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
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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.$46K
proposed penalties
$31K
current assessed
$31K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
68 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $24K in penalties contested before the Commission, $8K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2016-03-08.
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.27.4%
significant & substantial
23.3%
high negligence or reckless
27.4%
reasonably likely or greater
57.5%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 8.2% low, 68.5% moderate, 21.9% high, 1.4% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
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: 2014-07-09, 12 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.7
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
- Respirable dust, <.1mg7
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.
1
citations taken to the federal commission · 1% of citations on record
- Settled 1 · 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 1 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
66%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$24K proposed, $8K 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 2007-04-13. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WEST 2007-372M | Settlement | Manning | 2007 | $24K → $8K |
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.
Top causes
- ELECTRICAL 1 fatality
Incident timeline
2006
1 (1f)
Operators under this controller
Mines on record
Fatalities under this controller
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Where William Arness 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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