What are Austin Powder Company's MSHA penalties?

Austin Powder Company has $2.5M in proposed MSHA penalties on record, $1.4M paid, and $187 outstanding.

Austin Powder Company: 701 MSHA citations operator

MSHA operator ID: E24

Austin Powder Company has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA. MSHA has proposed $2.5M in penalties since 2000, with $187 outstanding.

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

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2000

701

citations

215

significant & substantial

$2,481,436

proposed penalties

$1,370,008

paid to date

55% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,111,428 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.

$2.5M

proposed penalties

$1.4M

current assessed

$1.4M

paid to date

$187

outstanding

666 assessments are final orders; 250 contested dockets.

Of $2.4M in penalties contested before the Commission, $1.1M was upheld in final decisions.

As of the most recent assessment on 2026-08-20.

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.

31.4%

significant & substantial

6.7%

high negligence or reckless

33.3%

reasonably likely or greater

48.5%

permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs

Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 19.9% low, 73.4% moderate, 6.7% 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.

284 citations taken to the federal commission · 41% of citations on record

Settled 276 · 97%
Stood as issued 8 · 3%

68%

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 164 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%

51%

Penalty reduction in decided contests

$2.1M proposed, $1.0M 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 2017-05-08. 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
KENT 2012-684	Settlement	Andrews	2017	$132K → $84K
KENT 2010-607	Settlement	Rae	2012	$95K → $50K
SE 2012-16M	Settlement	McCarthy	2014	$70K → $17K
KENT 2011-1011	Settlement	Andrews	2017	$70K → $52K
SE 2011-276M	Settlement	McCarthy	2012	$69K → $19K
LAKE 2011-743M	Settlement	Miller	2012	$69K → $48K

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 Austin Powder 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.

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