What are Dyno Nobel's MSHA penalties?

Dyno Nobel has $170K in proposed MSHA penalties on record, $121K paid, and $4K outstanding.

Dyno Nobel: 215 MSHA citations operator

MSHA operator ID: S44

Dyno Nobel has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA. MSHA has proposed $170K in penalties since 2002, with $4K outstanding.

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

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2002

215

citations

significant & substantial

$173,097

proposed penalties

$124,228

paid to date

72% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $48,869 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.

$170K

proposed penalties

$125K

current assessed

$121K

paid to date

$4K

outstanding

199 assessments are final orders; 34 contested dockets.

Of $99K in penalties contested before the Commission, $54K was upheld in final decisions.

As of the most recent assessment on 2026-06-22.

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.

16.8%

significant & substantial

7.9%

high negligence or reckless

16.8%

reasonably likely or greater

42.5%

permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs

Negligence coding: 0.5% none, 10.7% low, 80.8% moderate, 7.9% 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.

53 citations taken to the federal commission · 25% of citations on record

Settled 51 · 96%
Stood as issued 2 · 4%

33%

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 33 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%

45%

Penalty reduction in decided contests

$99K proposed, $54K 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 2024-06-11. 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
LAKE 2018-0206	Settlement	Rae	2018	$23K → $8K
WEST 2014-0888	Settlement	Barbour	2015	$9K → $3K
SE 2015-0260	Settlement	Rae	2015	$8K → $8K
WEST 2023-0041	Settlement	Simonton	2023	$7K → $530
SE 2023-0081	Default	Voisin	2024	$7K → $7K
SE 2024-0156	Settlement	Paez	2026	$6K → $2K

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 Dyno Nobel 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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