Lanesboro Crushing/Lippman J 1, I 2 has $301K in proposed MSHA penalties and $187K outstanding across 4 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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Fatalities
1
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2011
Latest incident
Dec 2011
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2010
79
citations
34
significant & substantial
$301,323
proposed penalties
$12,884
paid to date
4% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $288,439 gap.
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: 790 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Lanesboro Crushing/Lippman J 1, I 2 has $301K in proposed MSHA penalties and $187K outstanding across 4 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.
$301K
proposed penalties
$200K
current assessed
$13K
paid to date
$187K
outstanding
77 assessments are final orders; 4 contested dockets.
Of $273K in penalties contested before the Commission, $171K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2012-10-23.
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.
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.
41citations taken to the federal commission · 52% of citations on record
Settled
38 · 93%
Vacated or withdrawn
3 · 7%
92%
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 Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.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 24 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
38%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$280K proposed, $175K 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 2013-06-25.
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.
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: 2012-05-09, 14 years ago
33%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
3
samples
3
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz31 over
Show the individual readings (3)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2012-03-14
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.62
0.42
1.48
Laborer, Bullgang
2012-05-09
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.31
0.63
0.49
Laborer, Bullgang
2012-03-14
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.32
0.55
0.58
Crusher Oper/Worker
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.
Lanesboro Crushing/Lippman J 1, I 2 recorded 13.47 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2011.
Injury rate, 2011
ⓘ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.
13.47
total case rate
13.47
days-away rate
6.736
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 2.56 and the all-US-mining average was 3.08 cases per 100 workers.
In Pennsylvania, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 3.93 cases per 100 workers that year.
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
2011 *
13.47
13.47
6.736
2010 *
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.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2014
0
2013
4
2012
8
2011
13
2010
13
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Lanesboro Crushing/Lippman J 1, I 2 sits in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, where the Census mining category is 3.2% 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.
Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania · Population 38,349
3.2%
Mining share of county employment
$66,930
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
2014 Q3
0
0
0
2014 Q2
0
0
0
2014 Q1
0
0
0
2013 Q4
2,383
0
0
0.0
2013 Q3
3,606
0
0
0.0
2013 Q2
0
0
0
2013 Q1
0
0
0
2012 Q4
4,410
1
0
226.8
Show 11 earlier quartersHide earlier quarters
Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2012 Q3
731
3
1
4104.0
2012 Q2
3,389
15
9
4426.1
2012 Q1
2,974
20
6
6724.9
2011 Q4
9,888
32
14
3236.2
2011 Q3
9,959
0
0
0.0
2011 Q2
6,647
0
0
0.0
2011 Q1
3,199
3
2
937.8
2010 Q4
4,388
0
0
0.0
2010 Q3
8,679
0
0
0.0
2010 Q2
8,781
0
0
0.0
2010 Q1
6,088
3
2
492.8
Fatalities at this mine
1 recorded
December 15, 2011PA · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanFatality · MACHINERY
While removing the conveyor wheels for transport, the laborer had his hand on the sleeve of the axel when the mechanic twisted the wheel and pinched his finger.
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