What are Jacobs Field Services's MSHA penalties?

Jacobs Field Services has $624K in proposed MSHA penalties on record, $401K paid, and $24K outstanding.

Jacobs Field Services: 289 MSHA citations operator

MSHA operator ID: 1PL

Jacobs Field Services has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA. MSHA has proposed $624K in penalties since 2002, with $24K outstanding.

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

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2002

289

citations

significant & substantial

$624,464

proposed penalties

$400,573

paid to date

64% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $223,891 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.

$624K

proposed penalties

$424K

current assessed

$401K

paid to date

$24K

outstanding

284 assessments are final orders; 54 contested dockets.

Of $583K in penalties contested before the Commission, $375K was upheld in final decisions.

As of the most recent assessment on 2014-12-20.

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.

15.4%

significant & substantial

7.7%

high negligence or reckless

15.4%

reasonably likely or greater

38.1%

permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs

Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 8.7% low, 83.6% moderate, 7.7% 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.

222 citations taken to the federal commission · 77% of citations on record

Settled 201 · 91%
Stood as issued 6 · 3%
Vacated or withdrawn 15 · 7%

47%

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 62 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%

35%

Penalty reduction in decided contests

$575K proposed, $375K 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 2015-03-15. 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
WEST 2014-33M	Settlement	Miller	2014	$68K → $33K
WEST 2008-678M	Settlement	Hodgdon	2008	$62K → $45K
WEST 2015-0327	Settlement	Simonton	2016	$52K → $43K
WEST 2012-928M	Settlement	Manning	2013	$48K → $36K
WEST 2013-677M	Settlement	Miller	2013	$43K → $28K
WEST 2012-410M	Settlement	Manning	2013	$43K → $32K

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 Jacobs Field Services 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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