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Southdown Inc: 385 MSHA citations operator

Controlled by Southdown Inc
MSHA operator ID: L12716

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
891
Mines on record
19
Years on record
1983–2001
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
385
citations
85
significant & substantial
$55,086
proposed penalties
$54,002
paid to date
98% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,084 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
93
inspections on record
2,679
inspection hours
14.4
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.
385 citations across 2,679 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.
$55K
proposed penalties
$54K
current assessed
$54K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
380 assessments are final orders; 5 contested dockets.
Of $1K in penalties contested before the Commission, $528 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2001-02-13.
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.
22.2%
significant & substantial
3.1%
high negligence or reckless
27.2%
reasonably likely or greater
54.2%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 18.8% low, 78.0% moderate, 3.1% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2001
ⓘ 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.
5.10
total case rate
1.88
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 4.48 and the all-US-mining average was 5.26 cases per 100 workers.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2001 5.10 1.88 0.000
2000 5.40 1.67 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: 2001-02-06, 25 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
9
samples
3
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg3
  • Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% Qtz2
  • Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz1
  • Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz1
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.
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.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
YORK20010014M Settlement Bulluck 2001 $720 → $294
PENN20000190M Settlement Feldman 2000 $277 → $179
PENN20020022M Withdrawal 2002 $224 → $0
PENN20010097M Withdrawal 2002 $196 → $0
PENN20010153M Settlement Barbour 2001 $55 → $55
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.

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Incident timeline

2001
23
2000
91
1999
103
1998
67
1997
20
1996
30
1995
38
1994
34
1993
47
1992
48
1991
58
1990
86
1989
78
1988
49
1987
20
1986
29
1985
33
1984
30
1983
7

Mines on record

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Where Southdown Inc stands on silica, penalties, and injury rate

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