UEHLIN UNDERGROUND has $26K in proposed MSHA penalties and $22K outstanding across 10 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2011
Latest incident
Jun 2011
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
77
citations
28
significant & substantial
$25,784
proposed penalties
$9,416
paid to date
37% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $16,368 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: 737 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
UEHLIN UNDERGROUND has $26K in proposed MSHA penalties and $22K outstanding across 10 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.
$26K
proposed penalties
$31K
current assessed
$9K
paid to date
$22K
outstanding
74 assessments are final orders; 10 contested dockets.
Of $22K in penalties contested before the Commission, $28K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2011-07-05.
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.
28citations taken to the federal commission · 36% of citations on record
Settled
17 · 61%
Stood as issued
10 · 36%
Vacated or withdrawn
1 · 4%
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 Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.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 13 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
0%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$21K proposed, $27K 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 2012-01-20.
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: 2010-09-08, 16 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
16
samples
15
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
TC as EC @ 3504
TCarbon @ 3504
Total Carbon,calculated from elemental carbon.4
Total Carbon,TC4
Show the individual readings (28)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2010-09-08
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.17
0.95
0.18
Truck Driver
2010-09-08
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2010-05-18
TC from EC @ 160
0
160
0.00
Truck Driver
2010-05-18
TC @ 160
6
160
0.04
Truck Driver
2010-05-18
EC @ 160
6
160
0.04
Truck Driver
2008-12-10
EC @ 160
7
160
0.04
Drill Operator, Rotary
2008-12-10
TC @ 160
13
160
0.08
Drill Operator, Rotary
2008-12-10
TC from EC @ 160
0
160
0.00
Drill Operator, Rotary
2008-08-27
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.52
0.58
0.90
Dry Screen Plant Operator
2008-08-27
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.29
0.7
0.41
Dry Screen Plant Operator
2007-12-05
TC as EC @ 350
0
350
0.00
Front-end Loader Operator
2007-12-05
TCarbon @ 350
0
350
0.00
Front-end Loader Operator
2007-12-05
TC as EC @ 350
0
350
0.00
Drill Operator, Rotary
2007-12-05
TCarbon @ 350
0
350
0.00
Drill Operator, Rotary
2007-08-09
TCarbon @ 350
126.12
350
0.36
Truck Driver
2007-08-09
TC as EC @ 350
51.24
350
0.15
Truck Driver
2007-08-09
TCarbon @ 350
97.54
350
0.28
Front-end Loader Operator
2007-08-09
TC as EC @ 350
61.48
350
0.18
Front-end Loader Operator
2007-08-09
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.15
10
0.02
Crusher Oper/Worker
2006-01-11
Diesel Particulate Material
72.52
308
0.24
Drill Operator, Jumbo Perc.
2005-02-02
Total Carbon,TC
0
400
0.00
Drill Operator, Jumbo Perc.
2005-02-02
Total Carbon,calculated from elemental carbon.
0
400
0.00
Drill Operator, Jumbo Perc.
2002-12-11
Total Carbon,TC
0
400
0.00
Front-end Loader Operator
2002-12-11
Total Carbon,TC
30.94
400
0.08
Truck Driver
2002-12-11
Total Carbon,calculated from elemental carbon.
0
400
0.00
Truck Driver
2002-12-11
Total Carbon,TC
108.72
400
0.27
Drill Operator, Jumbo Perc.
2002-12-11
Total Carbon,calculated from elemental carbon.
0
400
0.00
Front-end Loader Operator
2002-12-11
Total Carbon,calculated from elemental carbon.
93.93
400
0.23
Drill Operator, Jumbo Perc.
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.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2011
2
2010
6
2009
6
2008
6
2007
7
2006
7
2005
7
2004
4
2003
4
2002
1
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
UEHLIN UNDERGROUND sits in Andrew County, Missouri, where the Census mining category is 0.4% 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.
Andrew County, Missouri · Population 18,086
0.4%
Mining share of county employment
$74,007
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