What are Carter Machinery Co Inc's MSHA penalties?

Carter Machinery Co Inc has $98K in proposed MSHA penalties on record, $97K paid, and $151 outstanding.

Carter Machinery Co Inc: 201 MSHA citations operator

MSHA operator ID: BZ5

Carter Machinery Co Inc has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA. MSHA has proposed $98K in penalties since 2000, with $151 outstanding.

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

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2000

201

citations

significant & substantial

$97,572

proposed penalties

$97,327

paid to date

100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $245 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.

$98K

proposed penalties

$97K

current assessed

$97K

paid to date

$151

outstanding

198 assessments are final orders; 4 contested dockets.

Of $2K in penalties contested before the Commission, $1K was upheld in final decisions.

As of the most recent assessment on 2026-08-07.

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.

25.6%

significant & substantial

8.5%

high negligence or reckless

25.6%

reasonably likely or greater

51.8%

permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs

Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 13.6% low, 77.9% moderate, 8.5% high, 0.0% 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.

4 citations taken to the federal commission · 2% of citations on record

Settled 4 · 100%

67%

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 3 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%

Penalty reduction in decided contests

$1K proposed, $1K 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 2025-05-13. 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 2015-0126	Settlement	Rae	2015	$540 → $540
VA 2017-0104	Settlement	Moran	2018	$492 → $492
WEVA 2025-0367	Settlement	Simonton	2025	$302 → $151
VA 2006-20M	Settlement	Melick	2006	$191 → $97

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 Carter Machinery Co Inc stands on silica, penalties, and injury rate

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