What are Mountaineer Investigation & Security, Inc.'s MSHA penalties?

Mountaineer Investigation & Security, Inc. has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties on record, $3K paid, and $0 outstanding.

Mountaineer Investigation & Security, Inc.: 14 MSHA citations operator

MSHA operator ID: 4AV

Mountaineer Investigation & Security, Inc. has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA. MSHA has proposed $4K in penalties since 2001.

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

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2001

citations

significant & substantial

$4,367

proposed penalties

$2,540

paid to date

58% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,827 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.

$4K

proposed penalties

$3K

current assessed

$3K

paid to date

outstanding

14 assessments are final orders; 7 contested dockets.

Of $4K in penalties contested before the Commission, $2K was upheld in final decisions.

As of the most recent assessment on 2025-06-03.

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.

14.3%

significant & substantial

35.7%

high negligence or reckless

14.3%

reasonably likely or greater

28.6%

permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs

Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 21.4% low, 42.9% moderate, 35.7% 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.

10 citations taken to the federal commission · 71% of citations on record

Settled 9 · 90%
Stood as issued 1 · 10%

50%

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 2 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%

47%

Penalty reduction in decided contests

$4K proposed, $2K 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 2025-08-11. 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
WEVA 2025-0499	Settlement	Voisin	2025	$1K → $330
WEVA 2010-1682	Settlement	Miller	2011	$873 → $400
WEVA 2025-0498	Settlement	Voisin	2025	$655 → $302
WEVA 2025-0466	Settlement	Simonton	2025	$504 → $250
VA 2024-0005	Settlement	Paez	2024	$489 → $420
WEVA 2024-0251	Default		2024	$239 → $239

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 Mountaineer Investigation & Security, 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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