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Badger Mining Corporation: 359 MSHA citations operator

Controlled by North Cliff Corporation
MSHA operator ID: L04028

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
287
Mines on record
4
Years on record
1983–2026
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
359
citations
51
significant & substantial
$66,021
proposed penalties
$65,704
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $317 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
187
inspections on record
6,528
inspection hours
5.5
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.
359 citations across 6,528 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.
$66K
proposed penalties
$66K
current assessed
$66K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
352 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
Of $592 in penalties contested before the Commission, $275 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-06-08.
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.
14.2%
significant & substantial
1.4%
high negligence or reckless
14.8%
reasonably likely or greater
29.9%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 26.3% low, 72.3% moderate, 1.4% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2025
ⓘ 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.
1.47
total case rate
0.73
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.65 and the all-US-mining average was 1.97 cases per 100 workers.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2026 10.44 5.96 0.000
2025 1.47 0.73 0.000
2024 2.80 0.00 0.000
2023 1.29 0.65 0.000
2022 4.54 0.65 0.000
2021 4.59 1.53 0.000
2020 8.89 0.00 0.000
2019 5.57 2.23 0.000
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: 2026-03-05
14%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
155
samples
29
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz324 over
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg116
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz7
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
ⓘ 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.
3 citations taken to the federal commission · 1% of citations on record
  • Settled 2 · 67%
  • Stood as issued 1 · 33%
100%
S&S designation survived the contest
ⓘ 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 1 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
54%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$592 proposed, $275 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 2008-04-28. Vacated and withdrawn citations are removed from the file this view attributes through, so that outcome is slightly undercounted here.
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 operator contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
LAKE 2008-384M Settlement Feldman 2008 $392 → $175
LAKE 2008-385M Dismissal Lesnick 2009 $200 → $100
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.

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Incident timeline

2026
8
2025
2
2024
7
2023
2
2022
7
2021
7
2020
10
2019
10
2018
8
2017
8
2016
1
2015
5
2014
6
2013
5
2012
9
2011
5
2010
3
2009
2
2008
6
2007
1
2006
4
2005
3
2004
2
2003
4
2002
3
2001
3
2000
3
1999
2
1998
18
1997
15
1996
10
1995
10
1994
13
1993
13
1992
10
1991
7
1990
8
1989
12
1988
7
1987
9
1986
3
1985
7
1984
6
1983
3

Mines on record

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Where Badger Mining Corporation 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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