Mining Incidents

Kanaval's Excavating & Gravel: 44 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Kanaval's Excavating & Gravel · Surface
Controlled by Reuben Kanaval Jr
Cohocton, Steuben County, NY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3003156

Kanaval's Excavating & Gravel has $6K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 7 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
44
citations
9
significant & substantial
$5,611
proposed penalties
$4,560
paid to date
81% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,051 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
36
inspections on record
312
inspection hours
n/a
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.
Rate withheld: 312 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Kanaval's Excavating & Gravel has $6K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 7 contested dockets.

Penalty disposition
Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
$6K
proposed penalties
$5K
current assessed
$5K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
43 assessments are final orders; 7 contested dockets.
Of $3K in penalties contested before the Commission, $2K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2013-06-19.
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.
20.5%
significant & substantial
6.8%
high negligence or reckless
20.5%
reasonably likely or greater
52.3%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 4.5% low, 88.6% moderate, 6.8% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, 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.
17 citations taken to the federal commission · 39% of citations on record
  • Settled 14 · 82%
  • Vacated or withdrawn 3 · 18%
100%
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 3 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
45%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$3K proposed, $2K 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 2013-09-04.
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 mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
YORK 2006-92M Settlement Lesnick 2007 $963 → $60
YORK 2011-290 Settlement Moran 2012 $600 → $400
YORK 2008-55M Settlement Lesnick 2009 $500 → $500
YORK 2006-5M Settlement Lesnick 2005 $494 → $396
YORK 2007-12M Settlement Lesnick 2007 $247 → $247
YORK 2012-13M Withdrawal Moran 2012 $100 → $0
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), 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: 2009-11-04, 16 years ago
2
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg2
Show the individual readings (2)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2009-11-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2001-07-19 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Dry Screen Plant Operator
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.
Ownership history
  1. Kanaval's Excavating & Gravel 1996 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2013 1
2012 1
2011 1
2010 1
2009 1
2008 1
2007 1
2006 1
2005 1
2004 1
2003 1
2002 1
2001 1
2000 1
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Kanaval's Excavating & Gravel sits in Steuben County, New York, where the Census mining category is 0.3% of county employment.

Local economic context
County figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.
Steuben County, New York · Population 93,034
0.3%
Mining share of county employment
$64,740
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
Quarterly safety rates
Citations per million reported employee-hours. Rates begin in 2000, when MSHA's quarterly employment data starts; earlier incidents are counted but cannot be rate-adjusted. Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2013 Q3 432 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 348 1 0 2873.6
2013 Q1 0 0 0
2012 Q4 76 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 403 2 0 4962.8
2012 Q2 408 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 0 0 0
2011 Q4 176 0 0 0.0
Show 45 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2011 Q3 374 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 344 4 1 11627.9
2011 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q4 40 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 320 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 456 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 0 0 0
2009 Q4 390 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 180 1 0 5555.6
2009 Q2 30 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 19 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 280 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 53 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 480 2 0 4166.7
2008 Q1 0 0 0
2007 Q4 280 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 488 5 0 10245.9
2007 Q2 480 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 0 0 0
2006 Q4 160 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 504 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 440 2 0 4545.5
2006 Q1 0 0 0
2005 Q4 200 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 504 8 3 15873.0
2005 Q2 560 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 0 0 0
2004 Q4 80 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 288 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 300 3 0 10000.0
2004 Q1 0 0 0
2003 Q4 320 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 256 4 1 15625.0
2003 Q2 368 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 0 0 0
2002 Q4 200 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 520 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 340 2 0 5882.4
2002 Q1 0 0 0
2001 Q4 320 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 520 1 0 1923.1
2001 Q2 360 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 0 0 0
2000 Q4 320 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 120 0 0 0.0

No reportable incidents on file.

MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents for this mine in the current dataset. New reports appear here within a week of being filed.