Mining Incidents

Lezinsky Portable: 40 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

James Lezinsky · Surface
Controlled by James S Lezinsky
Hop Bottom, Susquehanna County, PA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3609846

Lezinsky Portable has $34K in proposed MSHA penalties and $34K outstanding across 0 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 2010
40
citations
21
significant & substantial
$33,855
proposed penalties
$87
paid to date
0% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $33,768 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2010
17
inspections on record
158
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: 158 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Lezinsky Portable has $34K in proposed MSHA penalties and $34K outstanding across 0 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.
$34K
proposed penalties
$34K
current assessed
$87
paid to date
$34K
outstanding
40 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2017-12-12.
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.
52.5%
significant & substantial
45.0%
high negligence or reckless
52.5%
reasonably likely or greater
52.5%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 10.0% low, 45.0% moderate, 45.0% 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: 2012-04-26, 14 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
4
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg3
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (4)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2012-04-26 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Supervisor, Co. Official
2012-04-26 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2012-04-26 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2012-04-26 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.2 0.49 0.41 Stone Polisher/Cutter
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. James Lezinsky 2010 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2015 3
2012 2
2011 3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Lezinsky Portable 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
2015 Q4 650 16 13 24615.4
2015 Q3 105 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 210 8 2 38095.2
2015 Q1 40 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 193 1 1 5181.3
2012 Q1 0 0 0
2011 Q3 264 2 0 7575.8

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.