Mining Incidents

Don Wesner Inc operator

Controlled by Dean Soiland
MSHA operator ID: L02784
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
10
Mines on record
1
Years on record
1992–1996
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
129
citations
48
significant & substantial
$44,959
proposed penalties
$40,894
paid to date
91% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $4,065 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
37
inspections on record
396
inspection hours
n/a
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.
Rate withheld: 396 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
Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
$45K
proposed penalties
$45K
current assessed
$41K
paid to date
$4K
outstanding
127 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2011-05-05.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

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Incident timeline

1996
2
1994
1
1993
5
1992
2

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