What are Fisher Industries's MSHA penalties?

Fisher Industries has $54K in proposed MSHA penalties on record, $39K paid, and $7K outstanding.

Fisher Industries: 122 MSHA citations operator

MSHA operator ID: D3H

Fisher Industries has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA. MSHA has proposed $54K in penalties since 2000, with $7K outstanding.

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

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2000

122

citations

significant & substantial

$54,138

proposed penalties

$39,153

paid to date

72% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $14,985 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.

$54K

proposed penalties

$47K

current assessed

$39K

paid to date

$7K

outstanding

114 assessments are final orders; 11 contested dockets.

Of $17K in penalties contested before the Commission, $9K was upheld in final decisions.

As of the most recent assessment on 2026-07-30.

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.

26.2%

significant & substantial

9.0%

high negligence or reckless

23.8%

reasonably likely or greater

50.0%

permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs

Negligence coding: 1.6% none, 10.7% low, 78.7% moderate, 9.0% 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.

12 citations taken to the federal commission · 10% of citations on record

Settled 7 · 58%
Stood as issued 4 · 33%
Vacated or withdrawn 1 · 8%

89%

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 9 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%

46%

Penalty reduction in decided contests

$17K proposed, $9K 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 2025-07-20. 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
WEST 2023-0353	Settlement	Manning	2023	$9K → $4K
WEST 2024-0231	Settlement	Bulluck	2025	$3K → $2K
CENT 2018-0450	Settlement	Lesnick	2018	$1K → $1K
CENT 2025-0328	Dismissal	Simonton	2026	$1K → $1K
WEST 2017-0239	Settlement	Lesnick	2017	$625 → $140
WEST 2024-0195	Default		2024	$535 → $535

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 Fisher Industries 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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