Sewell Seam Management, Inc.: 168 MSHA citations operator
Controlled by
Donn A Chickering
MSHA operator ID: P24153
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 37
- Mines on record
- 1
- Years on record
- 1999–2003
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
168
citations
94
significant & substantial
$20,539
proposed penalties
$7,260
paid to date
35% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $13,279 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
36
inspections on record
2,229
inspection hours
7.5
citations per 100 inspection hours
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This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.168 citations across 2,229 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections 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
$7K
paid to date
$13K
outstanding
156 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2003-08-19.
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.59.5%
significant & substantial
7.1%
high negligence or reckless
59.6%
reasonably likely or greater
26.9%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.6% none, 4.5% low, 87.8% moderate, 7.1% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Top causes
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK 15 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS 10 non-fatal
- MACHINERY 4 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 3 non-fatal
- FIRE 2 non-fatal
- NO VALUE FOUND 1 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2003
7
2002
3
2001
6
2000
7
1999
14
Mines on record
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Where Sewell Seam Management, 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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