33% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $40,700 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
15
inspections on record
733
inspection hours
n/a
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.
Rate withheld: 733 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
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.
$61K
proposed penalties
$20K
current assessed
$20K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
6 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
Of $61K in penalties contested before the Commission, $20K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2000-11-27.
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.
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.
AT APPROXIMATELY 3:20PM ON 9/17/00 A FATAL POWERHAULAGE ACCIDENT OCCURRED WHEN EE AGE 57, WAS STRUCK BY FALLING HEAVY METAL PARTS. EE WAS OPERATING A BATTERY POWERED STANDUP FORK LIFT WHEN THE MATERIAL FELL FROM AN OVERHEAD STORAGE RACK. A NOTHER CONTR EE HEARD THE SOUND OF FALLING MATERIAL & SAW THAT EE HAD BEEN INJURED. EE NOTIFIED THE MINE SECURITY GUARD WHO NOTIFIED THE CLAY CO
For insurers, brokers, and safety consultants
Where Midwest Coal Company 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.