What are Independence Excavating, Inc.'s MSHA penalties?

Independence Excavating, Inc. has $19K in proposed MSHA penalties on record, $19K paid, and $0 outstanding.

Independence Excavating, Inc.: 109 MSHA citations operator

MSHA operator ID: JTH

Independence Excavating, Inc. has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA. MSHA has proposed $19K in penalties since 2000.

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

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2000

109

citations

significant & substantial

$18,778

proposed penalties

$18,599

paid to date

99% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $179 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.

$19K

proposed penalties

$19K

current assessed

$19K

paid to date

outstanding

108 assessments are final orders; 7 contested dockets.

Of $2K in penalties contested before the Commission, $1K was upheld in final decisions.

As of the most recent assessment on 2024-09-23.

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.

21.3%

significant & substantial

13.0%

high negligence or reckless

21.3%

reasonably likely or greater

57.4%

permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs

Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 11.1% low, 75.9% moderate, 13.0% high, 0.0% reckless.

Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, 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.

8 citations taken to the federal commission · 7% of citations on record

Settled 8 · 100%

29%

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 7 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%

11%

Penalty reduction in decided contests

$2K proposed, $1K 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 2023-10-02. 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
CENT 2019-0128	Settlement	Bulluck	2019	$344 → $344
KENT 2024-0001	Settlement	Sullivan	2024	$334 → $286
PENN 2015-0171	Withdrawal	Lewis	2016	$285 → $0
CENT 2019-0340	Settlement	Moran	2020	$263 → $242
SE 2023-0258	Settlement	Paez	2024	$252 → $252
KENT 2022-0066	Settlement	Bulluck	2022	$234 → $148

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 Independence Excavating, 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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