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Biehl Excavating Inc: 163 MSHA citations operator

Controlled by Michele Biehl
MSHA operator ID: L13219

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
17
Mines on record
4
Years on record
1990–2014
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
163
citations
21
significant & substantial
$15,276
proposed penalties
$15,276
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
161
inspections on record
1,569
inspection hours
10.4
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.
163 citations across 1,569 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.
$15K
proposed penalties
$15K
current assessed
$15K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
163 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2019-10-29.
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.
12.9%
significant & substantial
1.2%
high negligence or reckless
12.9%
reasonably likely or greater
44.8%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 4.9% low, 93.9% moderate, 1.2% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
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: 2019-10-30, 6 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
32
samples
17
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz17
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg13
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz2
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.

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Incident timeline

2014
1
2012
1
2005
1
2004
1
2003
1
2001
3
1999
1
1998
2
1997
1
1996
1
1995
1
1992
2
1990
1

Mines on record

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Where Biehl Excavating Inc 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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