What are Caterpillar, Inc.'s MSHA penalties?

Caterpillar, Inc. has $404K in proposed MSHA penalties on record, $234K paid, and $0 outstanding.

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Caterpillar, Inc.: 256 MSHA citations operator

MSHA operator ID: Z8T

Caterpillar, Inc. has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA. MSHA has proposed $404K 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

256

citations

104

significant & substantial

$403,593

proposed penalties

$233,839

paid to date

58% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $169,754 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.

$404K

proposed penalties

$234K

current assessed

$234K

paid to date

outstanding

247 assessments are final orders; 34 contested dockets.

Of $329K in penalties contested before the Commission, $159K was upheld in final decisions.

As of the most recent assessment on 2013-09-11.

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.

42.1%

significant & substantial

5.3%

high negligence or reckless

42.5%

reasonably likely or greater

32.8%

permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs

Negligence coding: 0.4% none, 14.2% low, 80.2% moderate, 4.9% high, 0.4% 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.

62 citations taken to the federal commission · 24% of citations on record

Settled 54 · 87%
Stood as issued 8 · 13%

90%

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 31 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%

51%

Penalty reduction in decided contests

$323K proposed, $159K 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 2012-12-04. 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
WEST 2012-1403	Settlement	Manning	2014	$63K → $10K
WEVA 2009-830	Settlement	Weisberger	2012	$60K → $51K
SE 2011-20M	Settlement	Zielinski	2011	$36K → $3K
LAKE 2012-359	Settlement	Simonton	2013	$18K → $8K
WEVA 2011-1029	Settlement	Harner	2013	$17K → $12K
WEVA 2009-1725	Settlement		2010	$16K → $11K

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 Caterpillar, 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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