What are SGS North America Inc., Minerals Services Division's MSHA penalties?

SGS North America Inc., Minerals Services Division has $24K in proposed MSHA penalties on record, $24K paid, and $151 outstanding.

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SGS North America Inc., Minerals Services Division: 108 MSHA citations operator

MSHA operator ID: K02

SGS North America Inc., Minerals Services Division has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA. MSHA has proposed $24K in penalties since 2000, with $151 outstanding.

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

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2000

108

citations

significant & substantial

$24,464

proposed penalties

$24,313

paid to date

99% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $151 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.

$24K

proposed penalties

$24K

current assessed

$24K

paid to date

$151

outstanding

105 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.

Of $825 in penalties contested before the Commission, $100 was upheld in final decisions.

As of the most recent assessment on 2026-04-29.

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.

33.3%

significant & substantial

5.6%

high negligence or reckless

32.7%

reasonably likely or greater

15.9%

permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs

Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 12.1% low, 82.2% moderate, 5.6% 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.

1 citations taken to the federal commission · 1% of citations on record

Settled 1 · 100%

Penalty reduction in decided contests

$100 proposed, $100 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 2010-06-04. 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
KENT 2017-0238	Withdrawal	Lesnick	2017	$625 → $0
KENT 2015-0119	Withdrawal	Simonton	2015	$100 → $0
VA 2010-415	Settlement	Lesnick	2011	$100 → $100

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 SGS North America Inc., Minerals Services Division 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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