Chemical Lime New Braunfels Ltd: 131 MSHA citations operator
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Lhoist Group
MSHA operator ID: L16828
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 60
- Mines on record
- 1
- Years on record
- 2000–2007
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
131
citations
30
significant & substantial
$47,163
proposed penalties
$44,213
paid to date
94% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $2,950 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
29
inspections on record
459
inspection hours
n/a
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.Rate withheld: 459 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
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.$47K
proposed penalties
$44K
current assessed
$44K
paid to date
$5
outstanding
130 assessments are final orders; 6 contested dockets.
Of $28K in penalties contested before the Commission, $25K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2007-08-07.
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.23.1%
significant & substantial
10.8%
high negligence or reckless
23.8%
reasonably likely or greater
50.8%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 3.8% low, 85.4% moderate, 10.8% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2007
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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.11.37
total case rate
3.79
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 3.30 and the all-US-mining average was 3.77 cases per 100 workers.
| Year | total case rate | days-away | fatal |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 11.37 | 3.79 | 0.000 |
| 2006 | 10.43 | 1.16 | 0.000 |
| 2005 | 20.29 | 1.56 | 0.000 |
| 2004 | 11.35 | 1.14 | 0.000 |
| 2003 | 6.75 | 4.50 | 0.000 |
| 2002 | 1.09 | 0.00 | 0.000 |
| 2001 | 3.21 | 0.00 | 0.000 |
| 2000 | 1.88 | 1.88 | 0.000 |
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.
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.
16
citations taken to the federal commission · 12% of citations on record
- Settled 14 · 88%
- Stood as issued 2 · 13%
75%
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 4 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
14%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$21K proposed, $18K 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 2007-11-20. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CENT 2008-118M | Settlement | Manning | 2008 | $11K → $8K |
| CENT 2007-243M | Settlement | Barbour | 2007 | $7K → $6K |
| CENT 2004-100-M | Default | Lesnick | 2004 | $7K → $7K |
| CENT 2007-82M | Settlement | Manning | 2007 | $2K → $1K |
| CENT 2006-69M | Settlement | Lesnick | 2006 | $1K → $1K |
| CENT 2006-4M | Dismissal | Lesnick | 2006 | $435 → $435 |
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.
Top causes
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS 20 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 18 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 8 non-fatal
- MACHINERY 8 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE 3 non-fatal
- OTHER 2 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2007
11
2006
9
2005
13
2004
11
2003
6
2002
4
2001
4
2000
2
Mines on record
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Where Chemical Lime New Braunfels Ltd stands on silica, penalties, and injury rate
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