What are Metso Outotec USA Inc.'s MSHA penalties?

Metso Outotec USA Inc. has $19K in proposed MSHA penalties on record, $18K paid, and $978 outstanding.

Metso Outotec USA Inc.: 35 MSHA citations operator

MSHA operator ID: DZJ

Metso Outotec USA Inc. has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA. MSHA has proposed $19K in penalties since 2006, with $978 outstanding.

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

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2006

citations

significant & substantial

$19,242

proposed penalties

$18,264

paid to date

95% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $978 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.

$19K

proposed penalties

$19K

current assessed

$18K

paid to date

$978

outstanding

34 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.

Of $5K in penalties contested before the Commission, $5K was upheld in final decisions.

As of the most recent assessment on 2025-07-30.

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.

29.4%

significant & substantial

8.8%

high negligence or reckless

29.4%

reasonably likely or greater

38.2%

permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs

Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 5.9% low, 85.3% moderate, 8.8% 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.

3 citations taken to the federal commission · 9% of citations on record

Settled 3 · 100%

Penalty reduction in decided contests

$5K proposed, $5K 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 A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record.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 2013-12-03. 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
WEST 2012-739M	Settlement	Lesnick	2013	$5K → $5K
WEST 2013-229M	Settlement	Lesnick	2013	$112 → $112
WEST 2014-99M	Settlement	Lesnick	2014	$100 → $100

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 Metso Outotec USA 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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