Austin White Lime Company, Ltd.: 346 MSHA citations operator
Controlled by
J.O. Robinson
MSHA operator ID: L30606
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 536
- Mines on record
- 2
- Years on record
- 1983–2023
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
346
citations
68
significant & substantial
$125,766
proposed penalties
$121,815
paid to date
97% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $3,951 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
125
inspections on record
2,640
inspection hours
13.1
citations per 100 inspection hours
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This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.346 citations across 2,640 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections 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.$126K
proposed penalties
$122K
current assessed
$122K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
340 assessments are final orders; 12 contested dockets.
Of $27K in penalties contested before the Commission, $23K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-04-08.
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.19.8%
significant & substantial
6.7%
high negligence or reckless
19.5%
reasonably likely or greater
41.1%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 12.2% low, 81.0% moderate, 6.7% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2024
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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 1.77 and the all-US-mining average was 2.08 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 * | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.000 |
| 2023 | 4.53 | 1.81 | 0.000 |
| 2022 | 2.68 | 0.89 | 0.000 |
| 2021 | 6.37 | 1.82 | 0.000 |
| 2020 | 6.79 | 0.00 | 0.000 |
| 2019 | 6.23 | 1.56 | 0.000 |
| 2018 | 8.82 | 2.40 | 0.000 |
| 2017 | 7.13 | 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.
Health sampling
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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)
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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: 2023-10-12
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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.0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
29
samples
15
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
- Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz12
- Respirable dust, <.1mg6
- Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz5
- Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz4
Area samples (mill and shop air)
Last sampled: 2020-07-29, 6 years ago4
samples
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.
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.
15
citations taken to the federal commission · 4% of citations on record
- Settled 11 · 73%
- Stood as issued 4 · 27%
89%
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 9 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
9%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$12K 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 2022-12-04. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CENT 2004-230M | Settlement | Hodgdon | 2005 | $14K → $12K |
| CENT 2020-0023 | Default | 2020 | $4K → $4K | |
| CENT 2016-0553 | Settlement | Miller | 2017 | $2K → $2K |
| CENT 2012-310M | Dismissal | Lesnick | 2012 | $1K → $1K |
| CENT 2006-53M | Settlement | Feldman | 2006 | $1K → $1K |
| CENT 2018-0313 | Default | Lesnick | 2018 | $811 → $811 |
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.
Top causes
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS 197 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 81 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 60 non-fatal
- OTHER 56 non-fatal
- MACHINERY 55 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE 42 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2023
5
2022
3
2021
9
2020
8
2019
8
2018
11
2017
9
2016
16
2015
11
2014
21
2013
21
2012
15
2011
6
2010
3
2009
6
2008
13
2007
12
2006
10
2005
9
2004
8
2003
9
2002
10
2001
14
2000
11
1999
9
1998
11
1997
12
1996
15
1995
13
1994
22
1993
20
1992
16
1991
17
1990
38
1989
31
1988
25
1987
8
1986
12
1985
14
1984
24
1983
1
Mines on record
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Where Austin White Lime Company, Ltd. 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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