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Penn Mag, Inc. Plant #1: 212 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

PENN MAG, INC. · Facility
Controlled by Anil Bhadsavle
Adrian, Armstrong County, PA  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3607767

Penn Mag, Inc. Plant #1 has had no fatalities among 5 reportable incidents since 1991. MSHA has proposed $93K in penalties since 2000.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
5
Years on record
1991–2022
Latest incident
Aug 2022
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
212
citations
61
significant & substantial
$92,519
proposed penalties
$68,661
paid to date
74% of proposed penalties paid to date. The remaining $23,858 was reduced, settled, contested or is still owed.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See PENN MAG, INC.'s full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
76
inspections on record
1,153
inspection hours
18.4
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.
212 citations across 1,153 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Penn Mag, Inc. Plant #1 has $93K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 6 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.
$93K
proposed penalties
$69K
current assessed
$69K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
210 assessments are final orders; 6 contested dockets.
Of $45K in penalties contested before the Commission, $22K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-03-23.
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.
29.0%
significant & substantial
15.2%
high negligence or reckless
29.0%
reasonably likely or greater
59.5%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 26.2% low, 58.6% moderate, 13.8% high, 1.4% 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.
36 citations taken to the federal commission · 17% of citations on record
  • Settled 36 · 100%
94%
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 17 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
50%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$48K proposed, $24K 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 2009-04-06.
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
PENN 2009-64M Settlement Lesnick 2010 $19K → $14K
PENN 2008-234M Settlement Bulluck 2009 $16K → $3K
PENN 2008-351M Settlement Bulluck 2009 $7K → $4K
PENN 2008-246M Settlement Bulluck 2009 $3K → $920
PENN 2009-65M Settlement Lesnick 2010 $512 → $512
PENN 2008-235M Settlement Bulluck 2009 $138 → $100
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: 2026-07-01
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
24
samples
6
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz7
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg5
  • Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz5
  • Aluminum oxide dust2
Show the individual readings (48)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2026-07-01 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.2 Utility Man
2026-07-01 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2026-07-01 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 1.06 Utility Man
2026-03-25 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2026-03-25 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2022-11-22 Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz 1.58 Laborer, Bullgang
2022-11-22 Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz 1.41 Laborer, Bullgang
2019-05-29 Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz 0.84 Laborer, Bullgang
2019-05-29 Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz 0.41 Laborer, Bullgang
2019-05-29 Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz 0.45 Welder, etc.
2012-04-25 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.13 Forklift Operator
2012-04-25 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.24 1.67 0.14 Supervisor, Co. Official
2012-04-25 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.28 Forklift Operator
2012-04-25 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.67 Laborer, Bullgang
2009-02-11 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.99 Kiln/Dryer Operator
2009-02-11 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.22 Bagging Operator
2009-02-11 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.44 Bagging Operator
2007-11-29 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Kiln/Dryer Operator
2007-11-29 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Kiln/Dryer Operator
2007-11-29 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.27 10 0.03 Mechanic
2004-10-13 Chromium, soluble 0.98 500 0.00 Utility Man
2004-10-13 Cobalt dust 0.12 100 0.00 Utility Man
2004-10-13 Copper dust and mist 0 1 0.00 Utility Man
2004-10-13 Iron soluble salts 0.63 1 0.63 Utility Man
2004-10-13 Manganese dust 0 5 0.00 Utility Man
2004-10-13 Nickel dust & salts 0 1 0.00 Utility Man
2004-10-13 Titanium dioxide dust 0 10 0.00 Utility Man
2004-10-13 Vanadium dust 0.25 500 0.00 Utility Man
2004-10-13 Lead, inorganic dust 0.12 150 0.00 Utility Man
2004-10-13 Molybdenum dust 0 10 0.00 Utility Man
2004-10-13 Aluminum oxide dust 0.01 10 0.00 Utility Man
2004-10-13 Arsenic dust 0 500 0.00 Utility Man
2004-10-13 Beryllium dust 0 2 0.00 Utility Man
2004-10-13 Cadmium dust & salts 0 200 0.00 Utility Man
2004-10-13 Chromium, soluble 1.23 500 0.00 Utility Man
2004-10-13 Cobalt dust 0.12 100 0.00 Utility Man
2004-10-13 Copper dust and mist 0 1 0.00 Utility Man
2004-10-13 Iron soluble salts 0.59 1 0.59 Utility Man
2004-10-13 Lead, inorganic dust 0.49 150 0.00 Utility Man
2004-10-13 Manganese dust 0 5 0.00 Utility Man
2004-10-13 Molybdenum dust 0 10 0.00 Utility Man
2004-10-13 Nickel dust & salts 0 1 0.00 Utility Man
2004-10-13 Titanium dioxide dust 0 10 0.00 Utility Man
2004-10-13 Vanadium dust 0.25 500 0.00 Utility Man
2004-10-13 Aluminum oxide dust 0.01 10 0.00 Utility Man
2004-10-13 Arsenic dust 0.12 500 0.00 Utility Man
2004-10-13 Beryllium dust 0 2 0.00 Utility Man
2004-10-13 Cadmium dust & salts 0 200 0.00 Utility Man

Area samples (mill and shop air)

Last sampled: 2026-07-01
1
samples
Show the individual readings (1)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Area sampled
2026-07-01 Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz 2.01 SF ORE PROCESSING
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.

Penn Mag, Inc. Plant #1 recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2025.

Injury rate, 2025
ⓘ 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 and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year. Employment reports reach back to 1983, but those earlier years come from MSHA's archived file format and are not used in rates.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.65 and the all-US-mining average was 1.98 cases per 100 workers.
In Pennsylvania, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.07 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
2025 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2024 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2023 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2022 * 5.97 5.97 0.000
2021 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2020 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2019 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2018 * 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.
Ownership history
  1. Penn Mag, Inc. 1985 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 15
2025 13
2024 14
2023 14
2022 20
2021 19
2020 17
2019 13
2018 12
2017 11
2016 9
2015 11
2014 12
2013 11
2012 12
2011 14
2010 13
2009 13
2008 20
2007 16
2006 15
2005 13
2004 10
2003 10
2002 12
2001 12
2000 11
1999 12
1998 9
1997 10
1996 10
1995 11
1994 9
1993 9
1992 8
1991 7
1990 7
1989 7
1988 9
1987 10
1986 12
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly; years before 2000 come from MSHA's archived Part 50 employment files.

Penn Mag, Inc. Plant #1 sits in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, where the Census mining category is 2.2% 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.
Armstrong County, Pennsylvania · Population 65,069
2.2%
Mining share of county employment
$64,295
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; earlier incidents are counted but not rate-adjusted, though reported hours reach back to 1983. 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
2026 Q2 7,198 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 5,823 2 0 343.5
2025 Q4 7,438 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 5,060 2 0 395.3
2025 Q2 6,052 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 5,310 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 8,156 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 5,508 0 0 0.0
Show 98 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 6,861 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 5,757 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 6,549 2 0 305.4
2023 Q3 5,897 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 6,751 4 0 592.5
2023 Q1 6,569 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 7,475 3 0 401.3
2022 Q3 7,975 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 9,898 6 0 606.2
2022 Q1 8,163 7 0 857.5
2021 Q4 7,949 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 7,460 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 9,216 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 8,226 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 7,850 3 1 382.2
2020 Q3 8,319 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 7,017 5 0 712.6
2020 Q1 7,020 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 7,832 1 0 127.7
2019 Q3 7,129 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 5,332 1 0 187.5
2019 Q1 6,342 2 0 315.4
2018 Q4 5,344 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 6,398 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 5,856 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 6,330 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 5,670 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 5,960 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 7,146 2 0 279.9
2017 Q1 4,383 3 0 684.5
2016 Q4 4,338 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 4,343 1 0 230.3
2016 Q2 4,182 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 4,724 6 2 1270.1
2015 Q4 4,444 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 4,914 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 5,873 1 0 170.3
2015 Q1 5,144 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 6,017 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 5,162 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 5,951 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 5,315 1 0 188.1
2013 Q4 5,840 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 5,136 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 5,894 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 5,191 2 0 385.3
2012 Q4 5,917 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 5,400 4 1 740.7
2012 Q2 6,219 2 0 321.6
2012 Q1 6,131 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 6,631 2 0 301.6
2011 Q3 6,357 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 6,761 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 5,917 11 2 1859.1
2010 Q4 7,405 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 3,810 4 2 1049.9
2010 Q2 6,098 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 4,876 10 3 2050.9
2009 Q4 5,570 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 6,026 1 0 165.9
2009 Q2 6,797 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 7,863 2 0 254.4
2008 Q4 8,682 8 4 921.4
2008 Q3 7,973 15 10 1881.3
2008 Q2 9,410 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 8,351 6 1 718.5
2007 Q4 6,354 12 1 1888.6
2007 Q3 7,401 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 7,088 8 3 1128.7
2007 Q1 7,113 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 6,836 19 4 2779.4
2006 Q3 6,571 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 7,128 5 1 701.5
2006 Q1 7,596 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 6,970 4 2 573.9
2005 Q3 7,494 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 6,275 4 1 637.5
2005 Q1 5,251 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 5,580 3 1 537.6
2004 Q3 4,697 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 5,089 1 1 196.5
2004 Q1 5,063 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 4,629 2 1 432.1
2003 Q3 3,858 1 0 259.2
2003 Q2 5,135 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 5,313 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 4,892 7 1 1430.9
2002 Q3 5,195 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 5,075 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 5,545 5 3 901.7
2001 Q4 4,845 2 0 412.8
2001 Q3 5,233 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 5,969 3 2 502.6
2001 Q1 6,336 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 6,648 2 2 300.8
2000 Q3 5,855 2 2 341.6
2000 Q2 6,067 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 6,186 7 4 1131.6
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

5 on file

2022 · 1 incident

August 23, 2022 PA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Penn Mag, Inc. · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Injured worker was removing metal pipe from rack when their thumb was struck with pipe. EE stated gloves were on.

Show 4 earlier incidents

2010 · 1 incident

December 21, 2010 PA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Penn Mag, Inc. · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE hit his wrist with a sledge hammer.

2009 · 1 incident

April 17, 2009 PA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Penn Mag, Inc. · Struck against stationary object

Employee was raking the discharge area below the dryer when his hand hit the rake and the discharge chute.

2006 · 1 incident

April 14, 2006 PA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Penn Mag, Inc. · Over-exertion in lifting objects

Working at bagger and lifted 50 # bag to place on pallet and heard shoulder pop.

1991 · 1 incident

January 9, 1991 PA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Penn Mag, Inc. · Fall onto or against objects

EE WAS CLIMBING STEPS TO ENTER HIGHLEFT WHEN FOOT SLIPPED OF STEPS WHILE ATTEMPTING TO GRAB ONTO HANDLE BAR TO STOP HIS FALL HE HIT HIS RIGHT HAND ON THE RUNG OF THE STEP.