Cemex: 824 MSHA citations operator
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Cemex S A
MSHA operator ID: L09964
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 819
- Mines on record
- 12
- Years on record
- 1988–2009
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
824
citations
225
significant & substantial
$189,952
proposed penalties
$182,248
paid to date
96% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $7,704 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
244
inspections on record
6,167
inspection hours
13.4
citations per 100 inspection hours
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This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.824 citations across 6,167 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections 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.$190K
proposed penalties
$182K
current assessed
$182K
paid to date
$175
outstanding
806 assessments are final orders; 17 contested dockets.
Of $72K in penalties contested before the Commission, $30K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2010-01-20.
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.27.7%
significant & substantial
4.2%
high negligence or reckless
27.9%
reasonably likely or greater
49.3%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.4% none, 10.6% low, 84.9% moderate, 4.2% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2009
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This rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.5.50
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 2.82 and the all-US-mining average was 3.36 cases per 100 workers.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
| Year | total case rate | days-away | fatal |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 * | 5.50 | 0.00 | 0.000 |
| 2008 | 5.15 | 0.47 | 0.000 |
| 2007 | 7.73 | 0.00 | 0.000 |
| 2006 | 8.98 | 1.00 | 0.000 |
| 2005 | 4.16 | 0.96 | 0.000 |
| 2004 | 6.67 | 1.21 | 0.000 |
| 2003 | 10.72 | 2.21 | 0.000 |
| 2002 | 6.93 | 2.89 | 0.000 |
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Health sampling
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A sample is a point in time compliance measurement, not an individual exposure history. These figures describe MSHA sampling records and do not establish causation or personal dose.Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
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Many samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.
Last sampled: 2008-08-26, 18 years ago
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Many samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.18%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
144
samples
99
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
- Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz3113 over
- Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz434 over
- Chromium, insoluble11 over
- Respirable dust, <.1mg28
Area samples (mill and shop air)
Last sampled: 2001-05-31, 25 years ago2
samples
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly. Metal/nonmetal contaminant figures come from MSHA's Personal Health Samples and Area Samples files (public record), 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.
15
citations taken to the federal commission · 2% of citations on record
- Settled 15 · 100%
88%
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 8 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
20%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$20K proposed, $16K 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 2009-06-02. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WEST20010365M | Settlement | Manning | 2001 | $31K → $7K |
| WEST 2009-949M | Settlement | Bulluck | 2011 | $7K → $6K |
| WEST 2009-122M | Settlement | Lesnick | 2010 | $7K → $4K |
| WEST20000496M | Settlement | Manning | 2001 | $6K → $220 |
| WEST 2009-158M | Settlement | Lesnick | 2010 | $5K → $5K |
| WEST20010515M | Settlement | Manning | 2001 | $4K → $55 |
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.
Top causes
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS 299 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 158 non-fatal
- MACHINERY 108 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 98 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE 46 non-fatal
- OTHER 40 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2009
1
2008
11
2007
10
2006
32
2005
15
2004
23
2003
34
2002
24
2001
36
2000
36
1999
25
1998
37
1997
41
1996
41
1995
37
1994
49
1993
51
1992
53
1991
66
1990
48
1989
82
1988
67
Mines on record
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Where Cemex 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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