What are Howell Contracting Company's MSHA penalties?

Howell Contracting Company has $25K in proposed MSHA penalties on record, $3K paid, and $0 outstanding.

Howell Contracting Company: 3 MSHA citations operator

MSHA operator ID: H4K

Howell Contracting Company has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA. MSHA has proposed $25K in penalties since 2001.

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

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2001

citations

significant & substantial

$25,110

proposed penalties

$3,110

paid to date

12% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $22,000 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.

$25K

proposed penalties

$3K

current assessed

$3K

paid to date

outstanding

3 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.

Of $25K in penalties contested before the Commission, $3K was upheld in final decisions.

As of the most recent assessment on 2001-07-20.

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.

33.3%

significant & substantial

0.0%

high negligence or reckless

33.3%

reasonably likely or greater

66.7%

permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs

Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 33.3% low, 66.7% moderate, 0.0% 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
SE 20020098M	Settlement	Feldman	2002	$25K → $3K
SE 20020001M	Settlement	Barbour	2002	$55 → $55

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 Howell Contracting Company stands on silica, penalties, and injury rate

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