IMC Salt Inc: 122 MSHA citations operator
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IMC Global Inc
MSHA operator ID: L15964
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 29
- Mines on record
- 1
- Years on record
- 1998–2001
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
122
citations
49
significant & substantial
$18,496
proposed penalties
$14,276
paid to date
77% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $4,220 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
104
inspections on record
1,676
inspection hours
7.3
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.122 citations across 1,676 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.$18K
proposed penalties
$14K
current assessed
$14K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
120 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
Of $11K in penalties contested before the Commission, $3K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2003-01-28.
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.40.5%
significant & substantial
6.6%
high negligence or reckless
45.5%
reasonably likely or greater
44.6%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 1.7% none, 35.5% low, 56.2% moderate, 6.6% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2001
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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.2.18
total case rate
1.09
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 4.48 and the all-US-mining average was 5.26 cases per 100 workers.
| Year | total case rate | days-away | fatal |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 2.18 | 1.09 | 0.000 |
| 2000 | 0.66 | 0.00 | 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CENT20010317M | Settlement | Cetti | 2002 | $6K → $1K |
| CENT20000241M | Settlement | Feldman | 2001 | $5K → $2K |
| CENT20010052M | Withdrawal | 2001 | $340 → $0 |
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.
Top causes
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 8 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS 7 non-fatal
- MACHINERY 3 non-fatal
- FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL 2 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 2 non-fatal
- HOISTING 2 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2001
4
2000
3
1999
13
1998
9
Mines on record
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Where IMC Salt 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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