What are Moran Mining Usa Inc's MSHA penalties?

Moran Mining Usa Inc has $293K in proposed MSHA penalties on record, $215K paid, and $936 outstanding.

Moran Mining Usa Inc: 146 MSHA citations operator

MSHA operator ID: 4MC

Moran Mining Usa Inc has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA. MSHA has proposed $293K in penalties since 2000, with $936 outstanding.

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

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2000

146

citations

significant & substantial

$292,836

proposed penalties

$215,243

paid to date

74% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $77,593 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.

$293K

proposed penalties

$216K

current assessed

$215K

paid to date

$936

outstanding

145 assessments are final orders; 7 contested dockets.

Of $170K in penalties contested before the Commission, $63K was upheld in final decisions.

As of the most recent assessment on 2026-04-28.

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.

26.2%

significant & substantial

9.7%

high negligence or reckless

26.2%

reasonably likely or greater

47.6%

permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs

Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 9.0% low, 81.4% moderate, 9.7% 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 · 14% of citations on record

Settled 17 · 85%
Stood as issued 3 · 15%

83%

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%

55%

Penalty reduction in decided contests

$139K proposed, $63K 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 2023-03-29. 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 2023-0107	Settlement	Sullivan	2023	$158K → $53K
WEST 2023-0170	Settlement	Simonton	2024	$9K → $7K
WEST 2023-0171	Default		2023	$1K → $1K
WEST 2005-305M	Settlement	Melick	2005	$1K → $976
WEST 2022-0204	Default		2022	$610 → $610
WEST 2020-0392	Settlement		2020	$123 → $123

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 Moran Mining 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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