What are StateFire DC Specialties's MSHA penalties?

StateFire DC Specialties has $22K in proposed MSHA penalties on record, $20K paid, and $1K outstanding.

StateFire DC Specialties: 66 MSHA citations operator

MSHA operator ID: F026

StateFire DC Specialties has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA. MSHA has proposed $22K in penalties since 2005, with $1K outstanding.

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

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2005

citations

significant & substantial

$21,646

proposed penalties

$19,812

paid to date

92% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,834 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.

$22K

proposed penalties

$21K

current assessed

$20K

paid to date

$1K

outstanding

62 assessments are final orders; 4 contested dockets.

Of $2K in penalties contested before the Commission, $908 was upheld in final decisions.

As of the most recent assessment on 2026-07-22.

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.

20.0%

significant & substantial

12.3%

high negligence or reckless

20.0%

reasonably likely or greater

58.5%

permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs

Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 20.0% low, 67.7% moderate, 12.3% 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.

9 citations taken to the federal commission · 14% of citations on record

Settled 7 · 78%
Stood as issued 1 · 11%
Still open 1 · 11%

37%

Penalty reduction in decided contests

$1K proposed, $908 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 2026-07-16. 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
WEST 2018-0432	Withdrawal	Gill	2018	$2K → $708
WEST 2014-298M	Settlement	Manning	2014	$634 → $100
WEST 2009-105M	Dismissal	Lesnick	2010	$100 → $100
CENT 2026-0234				Decision pending

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 StateFire DC Specialties 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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