Graymont Western Us Inc: 1,748 MSHA citations operator
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Graymont Ltd
MSHA operator ID: L11495
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 383
- Mines on record
- 5
- Years on record
- 1989–2026
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
1,748
citations
246
significant & substantial
$647,497
proposed penalties
$581,405
paid to date
90% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $66,092 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
356
inspections on record
14,668
inspection hours
11.9
citations per 100 inspection hours
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This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.1,748 citations across 14,668 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections 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.$647K
proposed penalties
$616K
current assessed
$581K
paid to date
$35K
outstanding
1,719 assessments are final orders; 22 contested dockets.
Of $116K in penalties contested before the Commission, $80K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-07-08.
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.14.1%
significant & substantial
1.9%
high negligence or reckless
14.1%
reasonably likely or greater
48.4%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.1% none, 16.0% low, 82.0% moderate, 1.9% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2025
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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.1.83
total case rate
0.92
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.65 and the all-US-mining average was 1.97 cases per 100 workers.
| Year | total case rate | days-away | fatal |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1.81 | 1.81 | 0.000 |
| 2025 | 1.83 | 0.92 | 0.000 |
| 2024 | 0.48 | 0.00 | 0.000 |
| 2023 | 3.00 | 1.50 | 0.000 |
| 2022 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.000 |
| 2021 | 1.59 | 0.53 | 0.000 |
| 2020 | 1.53 | 0.51 | 0.000 |
| 2019 | 1.46 | 0.49 | 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
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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.Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
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Many samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.
Last sampled: 2026-07-07
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Many samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.4%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
240
samples
152
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
- Calcium oxide874 over
- Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz262 over
- Respirable dust, <.1mg33
- Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz32
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly. Metal/nonmetal contaminant figures come from MSHA's Personal Health Samples and Area Samples files (public record), 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.
162
citations taken to the federal commission · 9% of citations on record
- Settled 157 · 97%
- Stood as issued 1 · 1%
- Still open 4 · 2%
54%
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 52 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
28%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$112K proposed, $80K 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 2026-05-31. 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 2013-367M | Settlement | Lesnick | 2013 | $36K → $30K |
| WEST 2011-628M | Settlement | Barbour | 2012 | $23K → $12K |
| WEST 2009-183M | Settlement | Lesnick | 2009 | $11K → $5K |
| WEST 2011-1150M | Settlement | 2012 | $9K → $5K | |
| WEST 2017-0095 | Settlement | Gill | 2017 | $6K → $4K |
| WEST 2010-663M | Settlement | Lesnick | 2010 | $6K → $5K |
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.
Top causes
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS 154 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 71 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 53 non-fatal
- MACHINERY 42 non-fatal
- OTHER 19 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE 14 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2026
2
2025
8
2024
2
2023
8
2022
4
2021
7
2020
5
2019
7
2018
10
2017
9
2016
5
2015
7
2014
5
2013
6
2012
12
2011
11
2010
5
2009
4
2008
9
2007
12
2006
17
2005
15
2004
9
2003
7
2002
10
2001
16
2000
21
1999
20
1998
14
1997
21
1996
21
1995
16
1994
22
1993
10
1992
12
1991
8
1990
5
1989
1
Mines on record
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Where Graymont Western Us 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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