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William C Hunter; C Mike Hunter Jr: 537 MSHA citations controller

MSHA controller ID: M01111

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
159
Mines on record
4
Years on record
1983–2018
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
537
citations
111
significant & substantial
$121,164
proposed penalties
$118,550
paid to date
98% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $2,614 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
248
inspections on record
5,688
inspection hours
9.4
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.
537 citations across 5,688 inspection hours.
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.
$121K
proposed penalties
$119K
current assessed
$119K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
536 assessments are final orders; 8 contested dockets.
Of $14K in penalties contested before the Commission, $11K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2018-06-26.
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.
20.7%
significant & substantial
8.0%
high negligence or reckless
20.9%
reasonably likely or greater
70.5%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 13.2% low, 78.7% moderate, 8.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
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: 2016-07-28, 10 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
15
samples
7
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg8
  • Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz6
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
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
ⓘ 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.
21 citations taken to the federal commission · 4% of citations on record
  • Settled 21 · 100%
43%
S&S designation survived the contest
ⓘ 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 7 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
21%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$13K proposed, $10K 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 2011-09-26. Vacated and withdrawn citations are removed from the file this view attributes through, so that outcome is slightly undercounted here.
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.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
VA 2008-192M Settlement Lesnick 2009 $9K → $9K
WEVA 2011-2021M Settlement Lesnick 2012 $2K → $324
WEVA20030003M Default Barbour 2002 $900 → $900
VA 2010-137M Settlement 2010 $492 → $200
VA 2010-199M Settlement 2010 $392 → $100
VA 2008-193M Settlement Hodgdon 2008 $300 → $300
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.

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Incident timeline

2018
5
2017
8
2016
2
2015
11
2014
4
2013
9
2012
6
2011
8
2010
5
2009
2
2008
3
2007
8
2006
2
2005
4
2004
4
2002
2
2001
8
2000
4
1999
2
1998
3
1997
2
1996
1
1995
1
1994
1
1992
1
1991
4
1990
11
1989
13
1988
4
1987
7
1986
4
1985
4
1984
2
1983
4

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Where William C Hunter; C Mike Hunter Jr 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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