78% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $35,672 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
525
inspections on record
9,291
inspection hours
6.5
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.
601 citations across 9,291 inspection hours.
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.
$165K
proposed penalties
$130K
current assessed
$130K
paid to date
$295
outstanding
592 assessments are final orders; 4 contested dockets.
Of $47K in penalties contested before the Commission, $12K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2009-01-08.
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.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2008
ⓘThis rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
1.36
total case rate
0.68
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 3.15 and the all-US-mining average was 3.61 cases per 100 workers.
Year
total case rate
days-away
fatal
2008
1.36
0.68
0.000
2007
1.50
0.46
0.000
2006
3.00
0.39
0.000
2005
3.24
0.48
0.000
2004
3.19
0.33
0.000
2003
1.88
0.19
0.000
2002
2.57
0.30
0.099
2001
3.34
0.10
0.000
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
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.
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: 2006-06-15, 20 years ago
6%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
151
samples
67
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz304 over
Respirable dust, <.1mg75
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz33
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz7
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.
5citations taken to the federal commission · 1% of citations on record
Settled
2 · 40%
Stood as issued
3 · 60%
100%
S&S designation survived the contest
ⓘ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%
88%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$30K proposed, $4K 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 2008-04-08. 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.
May 3, 2002FL · Metal/Non-Metalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerFatality · MACHINERY
Rinker Materials Of Florida, Inc. · Drowning
DRIVER OF BULLDOZER WAS WORKING AT EDGE OF LAKE "PADDING" THE SLIP FACE FOR THE DRAGLINE USED BY RINKER, WHEN BULLDOZER FELL INTO LAKE RESULTING IN DEATH TO DRIVER.
February 13, 2002FL · Metal/Non-Metalelectrician, linemanFatality · MACHINERY
Rinker Materials Of Florida, Inc. · Struck by falling object
WHILE ASSISTING IN THE INSTALLATION AND WIRING OF AN ELECTRONIC GENERATOR, INSIDE OF A 7820 MARION DRAGLINE, A MECHANIC WAS POSITIONING AN OVERHEAD 10 TON HOIST WEIGHING ABOUT 1160 POUNDS TO LIFT THE GENERATOR ARMATURE IN ORDER TO ALIGN THE BOLT HOLES, WHEN THE HOIST FELL ON THE EMPLOYEE CAUSING FATAL BLUNT TRAUMA.
January 15, 1986GA · Metal/Non-MetalsuperintendentFatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Rinker Materials Of Florida Incorporated · Drowning
EE TRIED TO RE8TART MOTOR ON BOAT WHILE IT WAS IN GEAR. HE WAS THROWN FROM BOAT & DROWN.
May 31, 1984GA · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techFatality · EXPLOSIVES AND BREAKING AGENTS
Rinker Materials Of Florida Inc · Struck by flying object
EMPLOYEE HAD CEASED NORMAL SHOP ACTIVITY TO AWAIT QUARRY BLAST. ROCK WAS THROWN FROM BLAST INTO SHOP AREA STRIKING EMPLOYEE CAUSING LACERATIONS & FRACTURES TO HEAD & BODY. POOR QUAUTY OF ROCK & POSSIBLE SEAM SUSPECTED TO CONTRIBUTE TO EXCESSIVE FLY ROCK.
For insurers, brokers, and safety consultants
Where Rinker Materials Of Florida, 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.