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Blaschak Anthracite Corporation: 699 MSHA citations operator

Controlled by Blaschak Holding Corp
MSHA operator ID: P21041

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
285
Mines on record
9
Years on record
1988–2026
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
699
citations
211
significant & substantial
$225,812
proposed penalties
$224,509
paid to date
99% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,303 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
612
inspections on record
21,514
inspection hours
3.2
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.
699 citations across 21,514 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.
$226K
proposed penalties
$225K
current assessed
$225K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
688 assessments are final orders; 7 contested dockets.
Of $4K in penalties contested before the Commission, $2K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-06-24.
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.
30.4%
significant & substantial
0.7%
high negligence or reckless
30.7%
reasonably likely or greater
22.9%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.4% none, 37.7% low, 61.2% moderate, 0.7% 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.
2.30
total case rate
1.72
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US coal mining average was 3.19 and the all-US-mining average was 1.97 cases per 100 workers.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2026 1.24 0.00 0.000
2025 2.30 1.72 0.000
2024 3.53 3.53 0.000
2023 4.66 2.33 0.000
2022 7.96 7.35 0.000
2021 1.88 0.63 0.000
2020 5.51 4.82 0.000
2019 3.99 2.00 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.

Respirable coal dust
ⓘ Respirable coal dust and silica figures cover coal facilities. Dust compliance is measured against the current 1.5 mg/m3 standard; samples predating the 2014 standard are included, so compliance rates are a coarse historical signal.

Last sampled: 2026-08-05
99%
within 1.5 mg/m3
2,298
samples
7.18
dust max (mg/m3)
5
over MSHA ECV
ⓘ The excessive concentration value (ECV) is MSHA's own per-sample enforcement threshold, which builds in measurement uncertainty; a sample over its ECV can trigger a citation. The count covers only samples MSHA assigned an ECV.
1,591 samples taken by MSHA inspectors, 707 by the operator.
Most-sampled occupations
  • HIGHWALL DRILL OPERATOR507
  • BULLDOZER OPERATOR414
  • LABORER/BLACKSMITH397

Silica (quartz)

Last sampled: 2026-06-05
9.3
silica avg (%)
186
samples
40.6
silica max (%)
Most-sampled occupations
  • LABORER/BLACKSMITH61
  • BULLDOZER OPERATOR58
  • HIGHWALL DRILL OPERATOR42
See US coal mines ranked by silica in their dust samples.

Noise
ⓘ The share counts noise samples whose measured dose exceeded the 90 dBA permissible exposure limit. It describes the sampled workplace, not what reached the miner's ear: hearing conservation programs and the hearing protection worn during the shift are recorded separately and are not reflected here.

Last sampled: 2026-08-05
10%
over PEL
1,032
samples
Most-sampled occupations
  • LABORER/BLACKSMITH257
  • HIGHLIFT OPERATOR/FRONT END LOADER153
  • BULLDOZER OPERATOR118
See US mines ranked by noise samples over the legal limit.
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, 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.
18 citations taken to the federal commission · 3% of citations on record
  • Settled 17 · 94%
  • Stood as issued 1 · 6%
70%
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 10 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
36%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$4K proposed, $2K 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 2024-06-17. 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
PENN 2010-218 Settlement Harner 2011 $1K → $651
PENN 2006-49 Settlement Lesnick 2006 $1K → $848
PENN 2018-0236 Settlement Lewis 2018 $286 → $286
PENN 2011-297 Settlement Lesnick 2011 $263 → $120
PENN 2010-633 Settlement Lesnick 2011 $150 → $100
PENN 2024-0087 Dismissal Moran 2024 $147 → $147
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.

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Incident timeline

2026
1
2025
4
2024
6
2023
10
2022
14
2021
3
2020
9
2019
7
2018
11
2017
15
2016
11
2015
8
2014
17
2013
23
2012
13
2011
8
2010
5
2009
7
2008
11
2007
8
2006
2
2005
3
2004
2
2001
3
2000
9
1999
12
1998
13
1997
12
1996
4
1995
11
1994
7
1993
3
1992
1
1991
4
1990
2
1989
2
1988
4

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Where Blaschak Anthracite 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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