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Clearfield Properties Inc.: 27 MSHA citations operator

Controlled by Keel Infrastructure Corp
MSHA operator ID: P22540

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
5
Mines on record
2
Years on record
2012–2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2003
27
citations
6
significant & substantial
$3,358
proposed penalties
$2,978
paid to date
89% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $380 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
92
inspections on record
1,829
inspection hours
1.5
citations per 100 inspection hours
ⓘ This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
27 citations across 1,829 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Penalty disposition
ⓘ Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
$3K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$302
outstanding
27 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $153 in penalties contested before the Commission, $75 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-05-21.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
ⓘ Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
22.2%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
22.2%
reasonably likely or greater
25.9%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 40.7% low, 59.3% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Health sampling
ⓘ 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.

Respirable coal dust
ⓘ Respirable coal dust and silica figures cover coal facilities. Dust compliance is measured against the current 1.5 mg/m3 standard; samples predating the 2014 standard are included, so compliance rates are a coarse historical signal.

Last sampled: 2026-05-21
99%
within 1.5 mg/m3
182
samples
2.19
dust max (mg/m3)
1
over MSHA ECV
ⓘ The excessive concentration value (ECV) is MSHA's own per-sample enforcement threshold, which builds in measurement uncertainty; a sample over its ECV can trigger a citation. The count covers only samples MSHA assigned an ECV.
120 samples taken by MSHA inspectors, 62 by the operator.
Most-sampled occupations
  • BULLDOZER OPERATOR68
  • HIGHLIFT OPERATOR/FRONT END LOADER43
  • WATER TRUCK OPERATOR24

Silica (quartz)

Last sampled: 2026-05-27
2.1
silica avg (%)
7
samples
6.5
silica max (%)
Most-sampled occupations
  • BULLDOZER OPERATOR6
  • WATER TRUCK OPERATOR1
See US coal mines ranked by silica in their dust samples.

Noise
ⓘ The share counts noise samples whose measured dose exceeded the 90 dBA permissible exposure limit. It describes the sampled workplace, not what reached the miner's ear: hearing conservation programs and the hearing protection worn during the shift are recorded separately and are not reflected here.

Last sampled: 2025-12-17
0%
over PEL
74
samples
Most-sampled occupations
  • HIGHLIFT OPERATOR/FRONT END LOADER26
  • BULLDOZER OPERATOR13
  • ROTARY BUCKET EXCAVATOR OPERATOR11
See US mines ranked by noise samples over the legal limit.
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly.
When citations were contested
ⓘ 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.
1 citations taken to the federal commission · 4% of citations on record
  • Settled 1 · 100%
0%
S&S designation survived the contest
ⓘ 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 1 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
51%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$153 proposed, $75 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 2005-06-09. Vacated and withdrawn citations are removed from the file this view attributes through, so that outcome is slightly undercounted here.
Contested penalties
ⓘ 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
PENN 2005-186 Settlement Lesnick 2005 $153 → $75
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.

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Incident timeline

2025
2
2023
1
2022
1
2012
1

Mines on record

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Where Clearfield Properties 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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