What are Phoenix Mining's MSHA penalties?

Phoenix Mining has $955K in proposed MSHA penalties on record, $397K paid, and $508K outstanding.

Phoenix Mining: 248 MSHA citations operator

MSHA operator ID: C1216

Phoenix Mining has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA. MSHA has proposed $955K in penalties since 2023, with $508K outstanding.

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

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2023

248

citations

significant & substantial

$954,855

proposed penalties

$396,897

paid to date

42% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $557,958 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.

$955K

proposed penalties

$904K

current assessed

$397K

paid to date

$508K

outstanding

216 assessments are final orders; 8 contested dockets.

Of $91K in penalties contested before the Commission, $40K was upheld in final decisions.

As of the most recent assessment on 2025-07-15.

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.

25.2%

significant & substantial

6.5%

high negligence or reckless

25.2%

reasonably likely or greater

18.7%

permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs

Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 5.7% low, 87.8% moderate, 6.5% 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.

37 citations taken to the federal commission · 15% of citations on record

Settled 4 · 11%
Stood as issued 3 · 8%
Still open 30 · 81%

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 2 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%

56%

Penalty reduction in decided contests

$91K proposed, $40K 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 2025-08-25. 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 2025-0100	Settlement	Young	2025	$73K → $22K
WEST 2025-0185	Default	Voisin	2025	$16K → $16K
WEST 2024-0094	Dismissal	Simonton	2024	$2K → $2K
WEST 2025-0288				Decision pending
LAKE 2025-0306				Decision pending
WEST 2025-0289				Decision pending

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 Phoenix Mining 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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