What are Earnest Cook & Sons Mining In's MSHA penalties?

Earnest Cook & Sons Mining In has $46K in proposed MSHA penalties on record, $43K paid, and $524 outstanding.

Earnest Cook & Sons Mining In: 190 MSHA citations operator

MSHA operator ID: R6F

Earnest Cook & Sons Mining In has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA. MSHA has proposed $46K in penalties since 2000, with $524 outstanding.

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

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2000

190

citations

109

significant & substantial

$45,784

proposed penalties

$42,513

paid to date

93% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $3,271 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.

$46K

proposed penalties

$43K

current assessed

$43K

paid to date

$524

outstanding

185 assessments are final orders; 18 contested dockets.

Of $17K in penalties contested before the Commission, $14K was upheld in final decisions.

As of the most recent assessment on 2004-10-26.

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.

58.0%

significant & substantial

1.1%

high negligence or reckless

61.6%

reasonably likely or greater

7.0%

permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs

Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 1.1% low, 97.8% moderate, 1.1% high, 0.0% reckless.

Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.

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
KENT20020025	Default	Barbour	2002	$4K → $4K
KENT20020227	Settlement	Barbour	2002	$2K → $1K
KENT20010256	Settlement	Barbour	2001	$1K → $871
KENT20010370	Default	Barbour	2002	$1K → $1K
KENT20020081	Default	Barbour	2002	$1K → $557
KENT20010145	Settlement	Barbour	2001	$1K → $832

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 Earnest Cook & Sons Mining In 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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