What are PCI's MSHA penalties?

PCI has $14K in proposed MSHA penalties on record, $14K paid, and $26 outstanding.

PCI: 49 MSHA citations operator

MSHA operator ID: A048

PCI has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA. MSHA has proposed $14K in penalties since 2000, with $26 outstanding.

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

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2000

citations

significant & substantial

$13,621

proposed penalties

$13,595

paid to date

100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $26 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.

$14K

proposed penalties

$14K

current assessed

$14K

paid to date

$26

outstanding

50 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.

Of $200 in penalties contested before the Commission, $200 was upheld in final decisions.

As of the most recent assessment on 2024-02-13.

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.

40.8%

significant & substantial

10.2%

high negligence or reckless

38.8%

reasonably likely or greater

20.4%

permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs

Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 10.2% low, 79.6% moderate, 10.2% 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.

2 citations taken to the federal commission · 4% of citations on record

Settled 1 · 50%
Stood as issued 1 · 50%

Penalty reduction in decided contests

$200 proposed, $200 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 A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record.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 2011-11-22. 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
PENN 2012-66	Settlement	Lesnick	2012	$100 → $100
WEST 2010-728	Default	Lesnick	2012	$100 → $100

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 PCI 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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