What are Kiah Creek Transport, LLC's MSHA penalties?

Kiah Creek Transport, LLC has $306K in proposed MSHA penalties on record, $232K paid, and $0 outstanding.

Kiah Creek Transport, LLC: 170 MSHA citations operator

MSHA operator ID: U203

Kiah Creek Transport, LLC has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA. MSHA has proposed $306K in penalties since 2008.

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

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2008

170

citations

103

significant & substantial

$305,580

proposed penalties

$231,739

paid to date

76% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $73,841 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.

$306K

proposed penalties

$232K

current assessed

$232K

paid to date

outstanding

170 assessments are final orders; 53 contested dockets.

Of $303K in penalties contested before the Commission, $229K was upheld in final decisions.

As of the most recent assessment on 2014-10-27.

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.

60.6%

significant & substantial

0.0%

high negligence or reckless

60.6%

reasonably likely or greater

25.9%

permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs

Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 22.4% low, 77.6% moderate, 0.0% 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.

140 citations taken to the federal commission · 82% of citations on record

Settled 137 · 98%
Stood as issued 3 · 2%

92%

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 107 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%

24%

Penalty reduction in decided contests

$302K proposed, $228K 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 2015-01-13. 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
WEVA 2013-204	Settlement	Feldman	2013	$32K → $23K
WEVA 2012-1762	Settlement	Feldman	2013	$32K → $18K
WEVA 2013-6	Settlement	Bulluck	2013	$30K → $30K
WEVA 2014-170	Settlement	Lesnick	2014	$23K → $19K
WEVA 2013-1223	Settlement	Bulluck	2014	$23K → $17K
WEVA 2013-396	Settlement	Feldman	2013	$17K → $12K

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 Kiah Creek Transport, 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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