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Hahm International Inc: 1 recorded fatality operator

Controlled by Scott R Descher
MSHA operator ID: L15022

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Fatalities
1
Total incidents
2
Mines on record
2
Years on record
1997–2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 1996
210
citations
41
significant & substantial
$47,387
proposed penalties
$46,787
paid to date
99% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $600 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
95
inspections on record
1,714
inspection hours
12.3
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.
210 citations across 1,714 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.
$47K
proposed penalties
$47K
current assessed
$47K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
208 assessments are final orders; 4 contested dockets.
Of $11K in penalties contested before the Commission, $11K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-08-07.
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.
19.7%
significant & substantial
16.3%
high negligence or reckless
20.2%
reasonably likely or greater
41.8%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 17.8% low, 65.9% moderate, 16.3% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
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.

Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
ⓘ 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: 2020-08-11, 6 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
18
samples
5
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz9
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz6
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg3
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
ⓘ 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.
4 citations taken to the federal commission · 2% of citations on record
  • Settled 3 · 75%
  • Stood as issued 1 · 25%
50%
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 2 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
5%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$11K proposed, $11K 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 2011-12-28. 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
WEST 2012-364M Settlement Lesnick 2012 $6K → $6K
WEST 2005-52M Settlement Hodgdon 2005 $5K → $4K
WEST 2005-38M Settlement Hodgdon 2005 $440 → $440
WEST 2011-1113M Default Lesnick 2012 $108 → $108
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.

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Incident timeline

2025
1
1997
1 (1f)

Mines on record

Fatalities under this operator

1 recorded
February 26, 1997 CA · Metal/Non-Metal drill operator Fatality · MACHINERY
Hahm International Inc · Fall down raise, shaft or manway

SUBCONTRACTOR'S EMPLOYEE WAS DRILLING BLASTING HOLES, WHEN DRILL HIT A VERTICAL SHAFT. HE FELL INTO THE SHAFT AND WAS BURRIED BY DEBRIS, AND WAS ASPHYXIATED.

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Where Hahm International 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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