What are Maxam Appalachia LLC's MSHA penalties?

Maxam Appalachia LLC has $43K in proposed MSHA penalties on record, $31K paid, and $0 outstanding.

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Maxam Appalachia LLC: 106 MSHA citations operator

MSHA operator ID: 8AB

Maxam Appalachia LLC has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA. MSHA has proposed $43K in penalties since 2000.

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

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2000

106

citations

significant & substantial

$43,256

proposed penalties

$31,266

paid to date

72% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $11,990 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.

$43K

proposed penalties

$31K

current assessed

$31K

paid to date

outstanding

95 assessments are final orders; 18 contested dockets.

Of $34K in penalties contested before the Commission, $20K was upheld in final decisions.

As of the most recent assessment on 2018-01-16.

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.

58.9%

significant & substantial

5.3%

high negligence or reckless

58.9%

reasonably likely or greater

18.9%

permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs

Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 7.4% low, 87.4% moderate, 5.3% 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.

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

Settled 15 · 75%
Stood as issued 5 · 25%

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 12 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%

38%

Penalty reduction in decided contests

$32K proposed, $20K 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 2013-09-13. 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
SE 2009-31	Settlement		2010	$16K → $9K
SE 2008-297	Settlement	Lesnick	2008	$7K → $2K
KENT 2009-1020	Settlement	Melick	2011	$5K → $4K
KENT 2009-201	Default	Lesnick	2011	$1K → $1K
KENT 2010-80	Settlement	Zielinski	2011	$998 → $998
KENT 2014-96	Withdrawal	McCarthy	2014	$952 → $0

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 Maxam Appalachia 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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