What are American Mine Services, LLC's MSHA penalties?

American Mine Services, LLC has $218K in proposed MSHA penalties on record, $184K paid, and $0 outstanding.

American Mine Services, LLC: 125 MSHA citations operator

MSHA operator ID: B6992

American Mine Services, LLC has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA. MSHA has proposed $218K in penalties since 2018.

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 0
Mines on record: 0
Years on record: —

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2018

125

citations

significant & substantial

$218,149

proposed penalties

$184,321

paid to date

84% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $33,828 gap.

Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.

Penalty disposition

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Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.

$218K

proposed penalties

$184K

current assessed

$184K

paid to date

outstanding

125 assessments are final orders; 5 contested dockets.

Of $72K in penalties contested before the Commission, $32K was upheld in final decisions.

As of the most recent assessment on 2022-09-13.

Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

Violation severity profile

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Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.

24.8%

significant & substantial

20.8%

high negligence or reckless

24.8%

reasonably likely or greater

30.4%

permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs

Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 10.4% low, 68.8% moderate, 20.8% high, 0.0% reckless.

Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.

When citations were contested

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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.

17 citations taken to the federal commission · 14% of citations on record

Settled 17 · 100%

100%

S&S designation survived the contest

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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 3 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%

52%

Penalty reduction in decided contests

$66K proposed, $32K 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 2022-05-22. Vacated and withdrawn citations are removed from the file this view attributes through, so that outcome is slightly undercounted here.

Contested penalties

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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 operator contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.

Docket	Decision	Judge	Year	Proposed / upheld
LAKE 2022-0131	Settlement	McCarthy	2022	$40K → $12K
LAKE 2022-0109	Settlement	Lewis	2022	$17K → $15K
LAKE 2022-0152	Settlement	Simonton	2022	$5K → $4K
LAKE 2022-0085	Settlement	Lewis	2022	$5K → $661
LAKE 2022-0086	Settlement	Lewis	2022	$5K → $661

Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.

No reportable incidents on file.

MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents associated with this operator.

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Where American Mine Services, LLC 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.

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