What are Miller Contracting Services, LLC's MSHA penalties?

Miller Contracting Services, LLC has $541K in proposed MSHA penalties on record, $330K paid, and $20K outstanding.

Miller Contracting Services, LLC: 258 MSHA citations operator

MSHA operator ID: S956

Miller Contracting Services, LLC has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA. MSHA has proposed $541K in penalties since 2008, with $20K outstanding.

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

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2008

258

citations

significant & substantial

$541,251

proposed penalties

$330,438

paid to date

61% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $210,813 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.

$541K

proposed penalties

$351K

current assessed

$330K

paid to date

$20K

outstanding

241 assessments are final orders; 23 contested dockets.

Of $368K in penalties contested before the Commission, $178K was upheld in final decisions.

As of the most recent assessment on 2026-08-20.

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.

24.4%

significant & substantial

12.2%

high negligence or reckless

24.0%

reasonably likely or greater

35.4%

permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs

Negligence coding: 0.4% none, 12.6% low, 74.8% moderate, 12.2% 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.

41 citations taken to the federal commission · 16% of citations on record

Settled 37 · 90%
Stood as issued 3 · 7%
Still open 1 · 2%

79%

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 29 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%

52%

Penalty reduction in decided contests

$368K proposed, $178K 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 2026-05-04. 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
LAKE 2022-0049	Settlement	Lewis	2022	$60K → $31K
LAKE 2024-0239	Settlement	Young	2026	$40K → $33K
WEST 2025-0101	Settlement	Young	2025	$38K → $19K
CENT 2024-0098	Settlement	Sullivan	2024	$34K → $621
CENT 2025-0035	Settlement	Bulluck	2025	$30K → $3K
SE 2023-0110	Settlement		2023	$27K → $22K

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 Miller Contracting Services, 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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