What are Lopke Quarries Inc's MSHA penalties?

Lopke Quarries Inc has $99K in proposed MSHA penalties on record, $74K paid, and $0 outstanding.

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Lopke Quarries Inc: 194 MSHA citations operator

MSHA operator ID: ASI

Lopke Quarries Inc has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA. MSHA has proposed $99K in penalties since 2001.

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

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2001

194

citations

significant & substantial

$98,657

proposed penalties

$74,335

paid to date

75% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $24,322 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.

$99K

proposed penalties

$74K

current assessed

$74K

paid to date

outstanding

187 assessments are final orders; 9 contested dockets.

Of $60K in penalties contested before the Commission, $36K was upheld in final decisions.

As of the most recent assessment on 2025-08-26.

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.

27.7%

significant & substantial

10.1%

high negligence or reckless

27.3%

reasonably likely or greater

58.0%

permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs

Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 7.4% low, 82.4% moderate, 10.1% 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.

19 citations taken to the federal commission · 10% of citations on record

Settled 17 · 89%
Stood as issued 2 · 11%

100%

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%

40%

Penalty reduction in decided contests

$60K proposed, $36K 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 2016-12-19. 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
KENT 2008-1561M	Settlement	Paez	2011	$22K → $11K
KENT 2008-873M	Settlement	Paez	2009	$14K → $7K
SE 2008-595M	Settlement	Barbour	2011	$7K → $5K
PENN 2008-317M	Settlement	Bulluck	2011	$7K → $7K
KENT 2008-957M	Settlement	Paez	2009	$5K → $3K
VA 2008-277M	Settlement	Hodgdon	2009	$3K → $1K

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 Lopke Quarries 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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