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Imerys Pigments LLC: 393 MSHA citations operator

Controlled by Imerys S A
MSHA operator ID: L17074

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
347
Mines on record
2
Years on record
1989–2008
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
393
citations
78
significant & substantial
$127,846
proposed penalties
$127,311
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $535 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
61
inspections on record
2,663
inspection hours
14.8
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.
393 citations across 2,663 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.
$128K
proposed penalties
$127K
current assessed
$127K
paid to date
$32
outstanding
389 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
Of $25K in penalties contested before the Commission, $24K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2007-11-08.
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.
19.9%
significant & substantial
2.8%
high negligence or reckless
19.9%
reasonably likely or greater
63.7%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 5.9% low, 91.3% moderate, 2.8% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2007
ⓘ 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.
6.39
total case rate
0.77
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 3.30 and the all-US-mining average was 3.77 cases per 100 workers.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2007 6.39 0.77 0.000
2006 3.65 0.64 0.000
2005 7.17 1.30 0.000
2004 8.98 2.57 0.000
2003 7.42 2.54 0.000
2002 7.81 2.32 0.000
2001 4.40 1.15 0.000
2000 6.96 2.17 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.

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: 2005-01-12, 21 years ago
14%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
23
samples
21
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz53 over
  • Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz12
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz4
  • Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz2
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.
21 citations taken to the federal commission · 5% of citations on record
  • Settled 5 · 24%
  • Stood as issued 15 · 71%
  • Vacated or withdrawn 1 · 5%
88%
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 8 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
2%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$25K proposed, $24K 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 2008-02-29. 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
SE 2008-350M Default Melick 2009 $21K → $21K
SE 2005-236M Prevail Melick 2006 $3K → $2K
SE 2006-13M Settlement Zielinski 2006 $734 → $442
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.

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Incident timeline

2008
2
2007
28
2006
17
2005
33
2004
43
2003
36
2002
37
2001
23
2000
32
1999
11
1998
12
1997
22
1996
15
1995
17
1994
1
1993
1
1992
4
1991
2
1990
8
1989
3

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Where Imerys Pigments 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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