What are New River Mining Company Incorporated's MSHA penalties?

New River Mining Company Incorporated has $139K in proposed MSHA penalties on record, $500 paid, and $102K outstanding.

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New River Mining Company Incorporated: 212 MSHA citations operator

Controlled by Roland Arrigoni

MSHA operator ID: 0051243

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 14
Mines on record: 2
Years on record: 2003–2004

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2003

212

citations

significant & substantial

$138,945

proposed penalties

$500

paid to date

0% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $138,445 gap.

Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.

Inspection activity

MSHA inspections since 2003

inspections on record

1,460

inspection hours

14.5

citations per 100 inspection hours

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This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.

212 citations across 1,460 inspection hours.

Source: MSHA inspections 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.

$139K

proposed penalties

$103K

current assessed

$500

paid to date

$102K

outstanding

206 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.

Of $95K in penalties contested before the Commission, $58K was upheld in final decisions.

As of the most recent assessment on 2005-07-18.

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.

34.6%

significant & substantial

17.3%

high negligence or reckless

34.6%

reasonably likely or greater

28.8%

permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs

Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 1.4% low, 81.2% moderate, 16.8% high, 0.5% reckless.

Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.

Injury rate, 2004

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This rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.

15.28

total case rate

12.23

days-away rate

0.000

fatality rate

Above average. The US coal mining average was 5.57 and the all-US-mining average was 4.33 cases per 100 workers.

Year	total case rate	days-away	fatal
2004	15.28	12.23	0.000
2003 *	13.93	13.93	0.000

* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.

Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.

Health sampling

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A sample is a point in time compliance measurement, not an individual exposure history. These figures describe MSHA sampling records and do not establish causation or personal dose.

Respirable coal dust

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Respirable coal dust and silica figures cover coal facilities. Dust compliance is measured against the current 1.5 mg/m3 standard; samples predating the 2014 standard are included, so compliance rates are a coarse historical signal.

Last sampled: 2004-11-30, 21 years ago

96%

within 1.5 mg/m3

samples

13.31

dust max (mg/m3)

32 samples taken by MSHA inspectors, 38 by the operator.

Most-sampled occupations

CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR27
CLEANING PLANT OPERATOR7
ROOF BOLTER (SINGLE HEAD)6

Silica (quartz)

Last sampled: 2004-12-08, 21 years ago

3.5

silica avg (%)

samples

7.3

silica max (%)

Most-sampled occupations

CLEANING PLANT OPERATOR1
CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR1
UTILITY MAN1

See US coal mines ranked by silica in their dust samples.

Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, 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.

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

Settled 5 · 24%
Stood as issued 16 · 76%

100%

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 17 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%

38%

Penalty reduction in decided contests

$95K proposed, $58K 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 2004-12-29. 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
WEVA 2005-51	Default	Lesnick	2005	$39K → $39K
WEVA 2004-219	Settlement	Hodgdon	2006	$37K → $500
WEVA 2005-36	Default	Hodgdon	2005	$19K → $19K

Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.

Top causes

HANDLING OF MATERIALS 3 non-fatal
HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 3 non-fatal
MACHINERY 3 non-fatal
NO VALUE FOUND 2 non-fatal
ELECTRICAL 1 non-fatal
FALL OF ROOF OR BACK 1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2004

2003

Mines on record

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Where New River Mining Company Incorporated 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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