Mining Incidents

Boart Longyear Company: 34 MSHA citations operator

MSHA operator ID: 2IA

Boart Longyear Company has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA. MSHA has proposed $10K in penalties since 2000.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Mines on record
0
Years on record
—
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
34
citations
10
significant & substantial
$9,673
proposed penalties
$3,762
paid to date
39% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $5,911 gap.
Source: MSHA violations 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.
$10K
proposed penalties
$4K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
34 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
Of $7K in penalties contested before the Commission, $800 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2008-07-30.
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.
29.4%
significant & substantial
11.8%
high negligence or reckless
29.4%
reasonably likely or greater
50.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 8.8% low, 79.4% moderate, 11.8% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, 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.
5 citations taken to the federal commission · 15% of citations on record
  • Settled 1 · 20%
  • Stood as issued 1 · 20%
  • Vacated or withdrawn 3 · 60%
0%
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 Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.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 3 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
88%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$7K proposed, $800 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 2007-08-28. 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
WEST 2007-834M Withdrawal Melick 2008 $6K → $0
WEST 2005-391M Dismissal Manning 2006 $700 → $700
WEST 2007-828M Settlement Manning 2008 $100 → $100
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 Boart Longyear Company stands on silica, penalties, and injury rate

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