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Liggett Mining LLC: 2,779 MSHA citations operator

Controlled by James C Justice II
MSHA operator ID: 0051884

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
106
Mines on record
9
Years on record
2004–2013
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2004
2,779
citations
883
significant & substantial
$1,599,363
proposed penalties
$1,205,995
paid to date
75% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $393,368 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2004
276
inspections on record
17,872
inspection hours
15.5
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.
2,779 citations across 17,872 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.
$1.6M
proposed penalties
$1.2M
current assessed
$1.2M
paid to date
$30K
outstanding
2,725 assessments are final orders; 135 contested dockets.
Of $1.1M in penalties contested before the Commission, $675K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2014-06-24.
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.
32.4%
significant & substantial
1.8%
high negligence or reckless
38.6%
reasonably likely or greater
12.7%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.1% none, 4.0% low, 94.2% moderate, 1.7% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2014
ⓘ 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.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US coal mining average was 3.96 and the all-US-mining average was 2.93 cases per 100 workers.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2014 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2013 12.08 12.08 0.000
2012 2.66 2.66 0.000
2011 6.38 4.96 0.000
2010 7.23 4.82 0.000
2009 6.89 5.42 0.000
2008 3.61 2.89 0.000
2007 6.19 4.12 0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
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.

Respirable coal dust
ⓘ Respirable coal dust and silica figures cover coal facilities. Dust compliance is measured against the current 1.5 mg/m3 standard; samples predating the 2014 standard are included, so compliance rates are a coarse historical signal.

Last sampled: 2013-05-14, 13 years ago
94%
within 1.5 mg/m3
2,202
samples
7.54
dust max (mg/m3)
1,088 samples taken by MSHA inspectors, 1,114 by the operator.
Most-sampled occupations
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR923
  • ROOF BOLTER (TWIN HEAD) (RETURN SIDE)164
  • ROOF BOLTER (TWIN HEAD) (INTAKE SIDE)151

Silica (quartz)

Last sampled: 2013-05-15, 13 years ago
8.0
silica avg (%)
145
samples
35.7
silica max (%)
Most-sampled occupations
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR57
  • BACKHOE OPERATOR1
  • ROTARY BUCKET EXCAVATOR OPERATOR1
See US coal mines ranked by silica in their dust samples.

Noise
ⓘ The share counts noise samples whose measured dose exceeded the 90 dBA permissible exposure limit. It describes the sampled workplace, not what reached the miner's ear: hearing conservation programs and the hearing protection worn during the shift are recorded separately and are not reflected here.

Last sampled: 2013-05-07, 13 years ago
10%
over PEL
372
samples
Most-sampled occupations
  • ROOF BOLTER (TWIN HEAD) (INTAKE SIDE)66
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR58
  • SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (STANDARD SIDE)56
See US mines ranked by noise samples over the legal limit.
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, 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.
997 citations taken to the federal commission · 36% of citations on record
  • Settled 861 · 86%
  • Stood as issued 135 · 14%
  • Vacated or withdrawn 1 · 0%
95%
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 434 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
36%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$1.0M proposed, $656K 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 2014-09-02. 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
KENT 2008-1205 Settlement Melick 2011 $78K → $55K
KENT 2008-569 Settlement Melick 2009 $60K → $13K
KENT 2010-3 Settlement 2011 $58K → $38K
KENT 2009-913 Settlement Melick 2011 $42K → $29K
KENT 2008-706 Settlement Melick 2009 $39K → $16K
KENT 2008-996 Settlement Melick 2009 $36K → $22K
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.

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Incident timeline

2013
7
2012
4
2011
10
2010
9
2009
22
2008
10
2007
13
2006
18
2005
12
2004
1

Mines on record

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Where Liggett Mining 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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