Victor Underground has $39K in proposed MSHA penalties and $464 outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2021–2025
Latest incident
Jan 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2020
53
citations
20
significant & substantial
$39,315
proposed penalties
$33,933
paid to date
86% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $5,382 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: 459 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Victor Underground has $39K in proposed MSHA penalties and $464 outstanding across 1 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.
$39K
proposed penalties
$34K
current assessed
$34K
paid to date
$464
outstanding
50 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $16K in penalties contested before the Commission, $11K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-02-18.
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.
7citations taken to the federal commission · 13% of citations on record
Settled
7 · 100%
43%
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 Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.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 7 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
30%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$16K proposed, $11K 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 2023-11-20.
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: 2025-12-18
20%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
8
samples
5
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Diesel particulate (total carbon)31 over
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz2
Respirable dust, <.1mg2
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (17)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2025-09-09
TC @ 160
167
160
1.04
Stone Polisher/Cutter
2025-12-18
EC @ 160
0
160
0.00
Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2025-12-18
TC from EC @ 160
0
160
0.00
Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2025-12-18
ORGANIC CARBON
0
Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2025-12-18
TC @ 160
0
160
0.00
Rotary Bucket Ex. Operator
2025-09-09
EC @ 160
114
160
0.71
Stone Polisher/Cutter
2025-09-09
TC from EC @ 160
0
160
0.00
Stone Polisher/Cutter
2025-09-09
ORGANIC CARBON
52
Stone Polisher/Cutter
2024-08-15
ORGANIC CARBON
80
Front-end Loader Operator
2024-08-15
TC from EC @ 160
0
160
0.00
Front-end Loader Operator
2024-08-15
EC @ 160
0
160
0.00
Front-end Loader Operator
2024-08-15
TC @ 160
84
160
0.53
Front-end Loader Operator
2021-01-27
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
2.25
10
0.23
Cutting Mach Operator
2021-01-27
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
2.24
10
0.22
Cutting Mach Operator
2020-12-01
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Cutting Mach Operator
2020-12-01
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Cutting Mach Operator
2020-11-10
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.55
Cutting Mach Operator
Area samples (mill and shop air)
Last sampled: 2025-12-18
5
samples
Show the individual readings (10)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Area sampled
2025-12-18
TC @ 160
0
UG TRAVEL/HAULAGE
2025-12-18
EC @ 160
0
UG TRAVEL/HAULAGE
2025-09-09
EC @ 160
0
UG ACTIVE MINING
2025-09-09
TC @ 160
0
UG ACTIVE MINING
2025-08-13
TC @ 160
183
UG ACTIVE MINING
2025-08-13
EC @ 160
116
UG ACTIVE MINING
2025-08-13
TC @ 160
140
UG ACTIVE MINING
2025-08-13
EC @ 160
146
UG ACTIVE MINING
2024-08-15
EC @ 160
0
UG ACTIVE MINING
2024-08-15
TC @ 160
0
UG ACTIVE MINING
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.
Victor Underground recorded 4.80 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, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
4.80
total case rate
4.80
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.65 and the all-US-mining average was 1.97 cases per 100 workers.
In Indiana, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.61 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 *
4.80
4.80
0.000
2024 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2023 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2022 *
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
2026
20
2025
17
2024
13
2023
13
2022
12
2021
9
2020
2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Victor Underground sits in Monroe County, Indiana, where the Census mining category is 0.1% 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.
Monroe County, Indiana · Population 139,822
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$63,372
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
2026 Q2
12,926
0
0
0.0
2026 Q1
11,170
2
1
179.1
2025 Q4
9,982
1
1
100.2
2025 Q3
11,775
1
0
84.9
2025 Q2
10,668
0
0
0.0
2025 Q1
9,241
1
0
108.2
2024 Q4
7,736
3
2
387.8
2024 Q3
8,605
6
0
697.3
Show 16 earlier quartersHide earlier quarters
Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2
7,285
2
1
274.5
2024 Q1
7,661
1
0
130.5
2023 Q4
6,760
0
0
0.0
2023 Q3
6,785
9
3
1326.5
2023 Q2
6,027
3
1
497.8
2023 Q1
6,858
5
1
729.1
2022 Q4
5,509
2
1
363.0
2022 Q3
5,955
3
1
503.8
2022 Q2
5,844
0
0
0.0
2022 Q1
5,557
3
3
539.9
2021 Q4
4,852
2
2
412.2
2021 Q3
6,378
4
2
627.2
2021 Q2
5,180
1
0
193.1
2021 Q1
2,001
0
0
0.0
2020 Q4
535
3
1
5607.5
2020 Q3
480
0
0
0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
2 on file
2025 · 1 incident
January 20, 2025IN · Metal/Non-Metalstone finishing and sizing personnel, stone/rock cut/polish/saw operator, splitter, cutter, trimmerSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON