What are Cementation USA Inc.'s MSHA penalties?

Cementation USA Inc. has $1.5M in proposed MSHA penalties on record, $1.1M paid, and $481 outstanding.

Cementation USA Inc.: 565 MSHA citations operator

MSHA operator ID: M445

Cementation USA Inc. has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA. MSHA has proposed $1.5M in penalties since 2006, with $481 outstanding.

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

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2006

565

citations

significant & substantial

$1,496,902

proposed penalties

$1,131,949

paid to date

76% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $364,953 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.

$1.5M

proposed penalties

$1.1M

current assessed

$1.1M

paid to date

$481

outstanding

547 assessments are final orders; 48 contested dockets.

Of $968K in penalties contested before the Commission, $492K was upheld in final decisions.

As of the most recent assessment on 2026-07-22.

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.

11.4%

significant & substantial

2.9%

high negligence or reckless

11.4%

reasonably likely or greater

33.1%

permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs

Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 17.7% low, 79.4% moderate, 2.9% 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.

92 citations taken to the federal commission · 16% of citations on record

Settled 92 · 100%

73%

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 45 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%

43%

Penalty reduction in decided contests

$856K proposed, $492K 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 2024-05-08. 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 2012-1450M	Settlement	Manning	2014	$133K → $95K
WEST 2015-0924	Settlement	Miller	2016	$114K → $68K
LAKE 2024-0177	Settlement	McCarthy	2024	$80K → $40K
WEST 2012-631M	Vacate	Gill	2014	$63K → $0
WEST 2023-0177	Settlement	Manning	2023	$60K → $19K
WEST 2015-0570	Settlement	Bulluck	2015	$52K → $17K

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 Cementation USA 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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