100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Labor enforcement (WHD)
US Labor Department wage findings since 2004
1
labor cases
$3,244
civil penalties
1
employees affected
Violation types
Child labor (1)
Source: US DOL Wage and Hour Division enforcement records, matched by employer name and state.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
83
inspections on record
3,635
inspection hours
11.6
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.
422 citations across 3,635 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Penalty disposition
ⓘDifferences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
$60K
proposed penalties
$60K
current assessed
$60K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
415 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2007-05-01.
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.
Injury rate, 2007
ⓘ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.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 3.30 and the all-US-mining average was 3.77 cases per 100 workers.
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
2007 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2006 *
9.78
9.78
0.000
2005 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2004
20.19
7.21
0.000
2003
8.48
4.85
0.000
2002
11.92
8.34
0.000
2001
15.08
5.03
0.000
2000
11.83
4.73
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.
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: 2006-06-13, 20 years ago
13%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
47
samples
32
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz172 over
Total Carbon,TC111 over
Diesel Particulate Material31 over
Total Carbon,calculated from elemental carbon.12
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.
August 28, 1997CA · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, roof trimmer/scalerFatality · POWERED HAULAGE
American Borate Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
EE WAS LAYING IN THE ROADWAY, WAITING FOR LOADER OPERATOR AND FELL ASLEEP. HE GOT RUN OVER BY A LOADER.
December 27, 1995NV · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanFatality · MACHINERY
American Borate Company · Struck by falling object
EE WAS WORKING IN A MANBASKET BEING LIFTED BY A BOOM CRANE, WHEN CABLE FROM CRANE SUPPORTING MANBASKET BROKE DROPPING BASKET AND CRANE SHEAVE BLOCK. CRANE SHEAVE BLOCK WEIGHS APPROX. 400 LBS A ND DROPPED ON THE EE CAUSING FATALITY.
March 16, 1983CA · Metal/Non-Metalsection foreman, bullgang foreman, labor foreman, leadman, shift bossFatality · FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
American Borate Company · Struck by falling object
HE WAS RELIEVING LOOSE MATERIAL FROM THE ROOF OF ALREADY BOLTED GROUND, OUT OF THE BUCKET OF AN ST-5B L.H.D. WHEN A ROCK FALL OCCURRED FROM THE BACK STRIKING THEMEN IN THE BUCKET.
For insurers, brokers, and safety consultants
Where American Borate Company stands on silica, penalties, and injury rate
MSHA's standard limits respirable silica to 50 micrograms per cubic metre, but MSHA publishes
dust and quartz as separate files and never the silica figure itself. We derive it per sample,
score it against the limit, and set the operator's injury rate against a benchmark built from
the full MSHA operator record. With the 26-year penalty trail, contest posture, and fatality
history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.