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Popple Const. Inc.: 56 MSHA citations operator

Controlled by Mark Popple; David Popple
MSHA operator ID: 0082766

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Mines on record
1
Years on record
2017
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2008
56
citations
15
significant & substantial
$12,044
proposed penalties
$8,783
paid to date
73% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $3,262 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2008
52
inspections on record
591
inspection hours
n/a
citations per 100 inspection hours
ⓘ This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
Rate withheld: 591 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Penalty disposition
ⓘ Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
$12K
proposed penalties
$9K
current assessed
$9K
paid to date
$369
outstanding
56 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
Of $6K in penalties contested before the Commission, $3K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2019-12-12.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
ⓘ Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
26.8%
significant & substantial
10.7%
high negligence or reckless
26.8%
reasonably likely or greater
28.6%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 14.3% low, 75.0% moderate, 10.7% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Health sampling
ⓘ 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
ⓘ 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: 2019-03-26, 7 years ago
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
12
samples
0.47
dust max (mg/m3)
0
over MSHA ECV
ⓘ The excessive concentration value (ECV) is MSHA's own per-sample enforcement threshold, which builds in measurement uncertainty; a sample over its ECV can trigger a citation. The count covers only samples MSHA assigned an ECV.
12 samples taken by MSHA inspectors, 0 by the operator.
Most-sampled occupations
  • BACKHOE OPERATOR5
  • HIGHLIFT OPERATOR/FRONT END LOADER4
  • BULLDOZER OPERATOR2

Noise
ⓘ The share counts noise samples whose measured dose exceeded the 90 dBA permissible exposure limit. It describes the sampled workplace, not what reached the miner's ear: hearing conservation programs and the hearing protection worn during the shift are recorded separately and are not reflected here.

Last sampled: 2019-03-26, 7 years ago
0%
over PEL
12
samples
Most-sampled occupations
  • BACKHOE OPERATOR5
  • HIGHLIFT OPERATOR/FRONT END LOADER3
  • BULLDOZER OPERATOR2
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Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
ⓘ Many samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.

Last sampled: 2012-12-06, 13 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
2
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly. Metal/nonmetal contaminant figures come from MSHA's Personal Health Samples and Area Samples files (public record), updated weekly.
When citations were contested
ⓘ 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 2 · 100%
49%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$6K proposed, $3K 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 2017-10-02. Vacated and withdrawn citations are removed from the file this view attributes through, so that outcome is slightly undercounted here.
Contested penalties
ⓘ 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 2018-0012 Settlement Bulluck 2018 $6K → $3K
PENN 2018-0011 Settlement Bulluck 2018 $116 → $116
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.

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Where Popple Const. Inc. stands on silica, penalties, and injury rate

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