What are Bresee Trucking's MSHA penalties?

Bresee Trucking has $1.2M in proposed MSHA penalties on record, $609K paid, and $135K outstanding.

Bresee Trucking: 555 MSHA citations operator

MSHA operator ID: GTY

Bresee Trucking has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA. MSHA has proposed $1.2M in penalties since 2000, with $135K outstanding.

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 0
Mines on record: 0
Years on record: —

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2000

555

citations

179

significant & substantial

$1,207,108

proposed penalties

$614,606

paid to date

51% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $592,502 gap.

Source: MSHA violations 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.

$1.2M

proposed penalties

$743K

current assessed

$609K

paid to date

$135K

outstanding

482 assessments are final orders; 108 contested dockets.

Of $1.1M in penalties contested before the Commission, $659K was upheld in final decisions.

As of the most recent assessment on 2025-06-23.

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.

32.4%

significant & substantial

2.4%

high negligence or reckless

33.2%

reasonably likely or greater

18.1%

permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs

Negligence coding: 0.4% none, 24.8% low, 72.5% moderate, 2.2% high, 0.2% reckless.

Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, 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.

224 citations taken to the federal commission · 40% of citations on record

Settled 220 · 98%
Stood as issued 4 · 2%

82%

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 106 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%

41%

Penalty reduction in decided contests

$1.1M proposed, $659K 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 2022-07-11. 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
VA 2011-725	Settlement	Paez	2016	$227K → $132K
VA 2009-74	Settlement	Melick	2011	$165K → $57K
VA 2013-30	Settlement	Paez	2016	$140K → $82K
VA 2012-599	Settlement	McCarthy	2014	$76K → $57K
VA 2012-603	Settlement	Paez	2016	$57K → $33K
VA 2012-598	Settlement	Miller	2016	$28K → $16K

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 Bresee Trucking 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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