What are Refra Products Inc's MSHA penalties?

Refra Products Inc has $6K in proposed MSHA penalties on record, $2K paid, and $0 outstanding.

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Refra Products Inc: 19 MSHA citations operator

MSHA operator ID: CLY

Refra Products Inc has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA. MSHA has proposed $6K in penalties since 2007.

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

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2007

citations

significant & substantial

$6,237

proposed penalties

$1,924

paid to date

31% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $4,313 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.

$6K

proposed penalties

$2K

current assessed

$2K

paid to date

outstanding

19 assessments are final orders; 6 contested dockets.

Of $5K in penalties contested before the Commission, $762 was upheld in final decisions.

As of the most recent assessment on 2009-08-31.

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.

36.8%

significant & substantial

26.3%

high negligence or reckless

36.8%

reasonably likely or greater

31.6%

permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs

Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 21.1% low, 52.6% moderate, 26.3% 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.

8 citations taken to the federal commission · 42% of citations on record

Settled 7 · 88%
Stood as issued 1 · 13%

60%

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 5 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%

85%

Penalty reduction in decided contests

$5K proposed, $762 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 2009-12-15. 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 2010-181M	Settlement	Harner	2012	$3K → $100
PENN 2009-283M	Settlement	Lesnick	2009	$745 → $150
PENN 2007-173M	Settlement	Lesnick	2007	$610 → $195
PENN 2007-191M	Settlement	Lesnick	2007	$217 → $107
CENT 2008-609M	Default	Lesnick	2010	$150 → $150
PENN 2007-234M	Settlement	Lesnick	2007	$60 → $60

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 Refra Products Inc 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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