Yard 98 - Fairbury has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 3 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
4
Years on record
2000–2007
Latest incident
Sep 2007
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
32
citations
3
significant & substantial
$2,439
proposed penalties
$2,261
paid to date
93% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $178 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: 220 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Yard 98 - Fairbury has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 3 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.
$2K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
32 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
Of $624 in penalties contested before the Commission, $446 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2007-10-02.
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.
1citations taken to the federal commission · 3% of citations on record
Stood as issued
1 · 100%
0%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$60 proposed, $60 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 A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record.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 2004-04-12.
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: 2005-04-27, 21 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
4
samples
4
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz2
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (4)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2005-04-27
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.12
10
0.01
Front-end Loader Operator
2002-11-20
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
5.9
10
0.59
Crusher Oper/Worker
2002-11-20
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz
3.45
10
0.35
Truck Driver
2002-11-20
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.4
2
0.20
Truck Driver
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
2009
0
2008
3
2007
3
2006
3
2005
7
2004
10
2003
9
2002
5
2001
6
2000
4
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Yard 98 - Fairbury sits in Livingston County, Illinois, 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.
Livingston County, Illinois · Population 35,659
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$70,796
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
2009 Q2
0
0
0
2009 Q1
0
0
0
2008 Q4
0
0
0
2008 Q3
137
0
0
0.0
2008 Q2
1,895
0
0
0.0
2008 Q1
119
0
0
0.0
2007 Q4
1,113
5
0
4492.4
2007 Q3
1,926
0
0
0.0
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2007 Q2
1,418
0
0
0.0
2007 Q1
0
0
0
2006 Q4
1,772
2
0
1128.7
2006 Q3
2,172
2
0
920.8
2006 Q2
1,741
1
0
574.4
2006 Q1
263
0
0
0.0
2005 Q4
2,897
0
0
0.0
2005 Q3
2,804
0
0
0.0
2005 Q2
2,971
3
0
1009.8
2005 Q1
2,334
0
0
0.0
2004 Q4
995
0
0
0.0
2004 Q3
4,327
0
0
0.0
2004 Q2
4,530
0
0
0.0
2004 Q1
3,042
0
0
0.0
2003 Q4
4,176
3
0
718.4
2003 Q3
4,179
0
0
0.0
2003 Q2
5,196
0
0
0.0
2003 Q1
4,771
0
0
0.0
2002 Q4
5,316
2
0
376.2
2002 Q3
6,434
0
0
0.0
2002 Q2
3,698
0
0
0.0
2002 Q1
928
0
0
0.0
2001 Q4
2,342
4
1
1707.9
2001 Q3
4,302
3
0
697.4
2001 Q2
3,461
0
0
0.0
2001 Q1
694
0
0
0.0
2000 Q4
2,536
0
0
0.0
2000 Q3
1,662
0
0
0.0
2000 Q2
2,176
7
2
3216.9
2000 Q1
1,839
0
0
0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
4 on file
2007 · 1 incident
September 20, 2007IL · Metal/Non-Metalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerHANDLING OF MATERIALS
THE ARTICULATED TRUCK WAS HAULING DIRT WHEN THE FRONT PIN ON THE RIGHT STEERING CYLINDER CAME OUT & THE TRUCK TURNED SHARP TO THE LEFT ROLLING THE BOX OVER & WENT OVER AN 8' EMBANKMENT. THE DR IVER SUSTAINED SOME CUTS ON HIS LEFT ARM AND ELBOW AREA FROM THE GLASS OF THE DRIVER'S DOOR. THECAB DID STAY UPRIGHT.