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Frasure Creek Mining LLC: 3,088 MSHA citations operator

Controlled by Essar Minerals Canada Limited
MSHA operator ID: P24564

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
330
Mines on record
24
Years on record
2001–2018
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
3,088
citations
1,217
significant & substantial
$2,163,748
proposed penalties
$1,408,597
paid to date
65% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $755,151 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Labor enforcement (WHD)
US Labor Department wage findings since 2006
1
labor cases
$192,185
back wages owed
678
employees affected
Violation types
Wage & hour (FLSA) (1)
Source: US DOL Wage and Hour Division enforcement records, matched by employer name and state.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
1,060
inspections on record
32,716
inspection hours
9.4
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.
3,088 citations across 32,716 inspection hours.
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.
$2.2M
proposed penalties
$1.7M
current assessed
$1.4M
paid to date
$304K
outstanding
2,990 assessments are final orders; 119 contested dockets.
Of $1.3M in penalties contested before the Commission, $809K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2019-06-20.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
ⓘ Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
40.6%
significant & substantial
5.0%
high negligence or reckless
41.3%
reasonably likely or greater
25.4%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.1% none, 10.8% low, 84.1% moderate, 5.0% high, 0.1% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2014
ⓘ This rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
1.09
total case rate
1.09
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US coal mining average was 3.96 and the all-US-mining average was 2.93 cases per 100 workers.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2014 1.09 1.09 0.000
2013 2.27 2.27 0.000
2012 4.19 3.63 0.000
2011 4.52 2.78 0.000
2010 4.11 2.22 0.000
2009 4.80 3.24 0.000
2008 4.39 3.38 0.000
2007 2.78 2.01 0.000
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Health sampling
ⓘ A sample is a point in time compliance measurement, not an individual exposure history. These figures describe MSHA sampling records and do not establish causation or personal dose.

Respirable coal dust
ⓘ Respirable coal dust and silica figures cover coal facilities. Dust compliance is measured against the current 1.5 mg/m3 standard; samples predating the 2014 standard are included, so compliance rates are a coarse historical signal.

Last sampled: 2019-09-25, 6 years ago
98%
within 1.5 mg/m3
1,819
samples
5.92
dust max (mg/m3)
0
over MSHA ECV
ⓘ The excessive concentration value (ECV) is MSHA's own per-sample enforcement threshold, which builds in measurement uncertainty; a sample over its ECV can trigger a citation. The count covers only samples MSHA assigned an ECV.
1,342 samples taken by MSHA inspectors, 477 by the operator.
Most-sampled occupations
  • BULLDOZER OPERATOR353
  • HIGHLIFT OPERATOR/FRONT END LOADER243
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR227

Silica (quartz)

Last sampled: 2018-07-26, 8 years ago
12.4
silica avg (%)
66
samples
47.4
silica max (%)
Most-sampled occupations
  • BULLDOZER OPERATOR25
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR12
  • HIGHWALL DRILL OPERATOR7
See US coal mines ranked by silica in their dust samples.

Noise
ⓘ The share counts noise samples whose measured dose exceeded the 90 dBA permissible exposure limit. It describes the sampled workplace, not what reached the miner's ear: hearing conservation programs and the hearing protection worn during the shift are recorded separately and are not reflected here.

Last sampled: 2019-03-04, 7 years ago
7%
over PEL
752
samples
Most-sampled occupations
  • BULLDOZER OPERATOR202
  • HIGHLIFT OPERATOR/FRONT END LOADER127
  • REFUSE TRUCK DRIVER/BACKFILL TRUCK DRIVE101
See US mines ranked by noise samples over the legal limit.
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly.
When citations were contested
ⓘ 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.
353 citations taken to the federal commission · 11% of citations on record
  • Settled 352 · 100%
  • Stood as issued 1 · 0%
83%
S&S designation survived the contest
ⓘ 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 308 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
36%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$1.3M proposed, $809K 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 2013-12-04. Vacated and withdrawn citations are removed from the file this view attributes through, so that outcome is slightly undercounted here.
Contested penalties
ⓘ 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
KENT 2009-108 Settlement Feldman 2012 $114K → $53K
WEVA 2011-2472 Settlement Moran 2012 $79K → $12K
KENT 2009-1411 Settlement Rae 2012 $76K → $57K
KENT 2008-1381 Settlement Feldman 2012 $58K → $23K
KENT 2005-174 Settlement Bulluck 2006 $57K → $17K
KENT 2010-23 Settlement Rae 2011 $52K → $28K
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.

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Incident timeline

2018
1
2016
1
2015
1
2014
2
2013
3
2012
20
2011
53
2010
51
2009
59
2008
55
2007
32
2006
29
2005
5
2004
12
2003
3
2002
2
2001
1

Mines on record

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Where Frasure Creek Mining LLC 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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