What are DQ Fire & Explosion Consultants, Inc.'s MSHA penalties?

DQ Fire & Explosion Consultants, Inc. has $112 in proposed MSHA penalties on record, $1K paid, and $0 outstanding.

DQ Fire & Explosion Consultants, Inc.: 1 MSHA citation operator

MSHA operator ID: A1258

DQ Fire & Explosion Consultants, Inc. has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA. MSHA has proposed $112 in penalties since 2011.

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

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2011

citations

significant & substantial

$112

proposed penalties

$1,000

paid to date

893% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 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.

$112

proposed penalties

$1K

current assessed

$1K

paid to date

outstanding

1 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.

Of $224 in penalties contested before the Commission, $1K was upheld in final decisions.

As of the most recent assessment on 2011-01-11.

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.

0.0%

significant & substantial

100.0%

high negligence or reckless

0.0%

reasonably likely or greater

0.0%

permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs

Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 0.0% moderate, 100.0% 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.

1 citations taken to the federal commission · 100% of citations on record

Settled 1 · 100%

Penalty reduction in decided contests

$112 proposed, $1K 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 2011-09-22. 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
WEVA 2011-2480	Prevail	Andrews	2012	$112 → $1K
WEVA 2011-602	Vacate		2014	$112 → $0

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 DQ Fire & Explosion Consultants, 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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