96% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $4,594 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
176
inspections on record
7,813
inspection hours
7.1
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.
551 citations across 7,813 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.
$110K
proposed penalties
$105K
current assessed
$105K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
546 assessments are final orders; 9 contested dockets.
Of $9K in penalties contested before the Commission, $6K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2007-08-29.
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.
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.
2.39
total case rate
1.20
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below 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
2.39
1.20
0.000
2006
4.77
2.86
0.000
2005
5.68
0.00
0.000
2004
4.22
0.00
0.000
2003
2.10
0.35
0.000
2002
4.26
0.12
0.000
2001
6.12
0.72
0.000
2000
7.50
1.00
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.
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: 2007-03-13, 19 years ago
10%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
199
samples
185
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz5218 over
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz24
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz11
Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz9
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.
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.
June 6, 2000MO · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techFatality · SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Lafarge Corp · Fall from scaffolds, walkways, platforms
EE WAS CLIMBING STAIR SCAFFOLDING TO THE 108 FT LEVEL TO FLY EQUIPMENT INTO PLACE WHEN HE FELL FROM THE STEAL STRUCTURE TO THE 45 FT LEVEL FLOOR BLEOW WAS WEARING BEAR HANESS AND DOUBLE LANYAR D WHEN FATALITY OCCURRED. MULTIPLE TIE OFF POINTS WERE PROVIDED.
November 10, 1989TX · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorFatality · SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Lafarge Corp · Fall to lower level, (Not Elsewhere Classified)
DECEASED EMPLOYEE AND CO-WORKER WENT UP TO 4TH LEVEL OF RAW MILL BLDG TO DO PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE CHECK ON BUCKET ELEVATOR.OTHER WORKERS AT THAT EQUIPMENT HAD REMOVED FLOOR GRATES AND HOISTED OIL DRUM FROM GROUND LEVEL UP THROUGH FLOOR AND WERE IN PROCESS OF SETTING IT DOWN TO THE SIDE BEOFRE LOWERING HOIST TO PICK UP ANOTHER DRUM.AS DECEASED EMPLOYEE APPROACHED THIS ACTIVITY HE
June 16, 1988TX · Metal/Non-Metalelectrician, linemanFatality · ELECTRICAL
Lafarge Corp · Contact with electrical current
EMPLOYEE CAME INTO CONTACT WITH ENERGIZED 4160 VOLT CONDUCTORS AT THE TIME OF THE ACCIDENT THE EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO LOCATE THE SOURCE OF A BAD SMELL PROBABLY A DEAD ANIMAL WHEN HE LEANED INTO THE TOP PART OF THE GE BOX TO LOOK INTO THE 4160 VOLT BUS BAR WELL, WHEN HE CAME INTO CONTACT WITHT HE BUS BAR OR OTHER ELECTRICAL CONDUCTORS.
December 2, 1986TX · Metal/Non-MetalFatality · ELECTRICAL
Lafarge Corp · Contact with electrical current
EMPLOYEE WENT I3TO WRONG COMPARTMENT OF PRECIPITATOR AND WAS ELECTROCUTED
For insurers, brokers, and safety consultants
Where Lafarge Corporation 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.