What are Rainbow Trucking, Inc.'s MSHA penalties?

Rainbow Trucking, Inc. has $21K in proposed MSHA penalties on record, $8K paid, and $13K outstanding.

Rainbow Trucking, Inc.: 117 MSHA citations operator

MSHA operator ID: DV1

Rainbow Trucking, Inc. has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA. MSHA has proposed $21K in penalties since 2001, with $13K outstanding.

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

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2001

117

citations

significant & substantial

$20,935

proposed penalties

$7,871

paid to date

38% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $13,064 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.

$21K

proposed penalties

$21K

current assessed

$8K

paid to date

$13K

outstanding

114 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.

Of $113 in penalties contested before the Commission, $113 was upheld in final decisions.

As of the most recent assessment on 2017-08-31.

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.

27.2%

significant & substantial

1.8%

high negligence or reckless

27.2%

reasonably likely or greater

7.0%

permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs

Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 2.6% low, 95.6% moderate, 1.8% high, 0.0% reckless.

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

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
KENT20010236	Default	Barbour	2001	$113 → $113

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 Rainbow Trucking, Inc. stands on silica, penalties, and injury rate

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