What are Strata Mine Services, LLC's MSHA penalties?

Strata Mine Services, LLC has $134K in proposed MSHA penalties on record, $75K paid, and $3K outstanding.

Strata Mine Services, LLC: 127 MSHA citations operator

MSHA operator ID: 2IS

Strata Mine Services, LLC has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA. MSHA has proposed $134K in penalties since 2004, with $3K outstanding.

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

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2004

127

citations

significant & substantial

$133,898

proposed penalties

$75,367

paid to date

56% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $58,531 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.

$134K

proposed penalties

$78K

current assessed

$75K

paid to date

$3K

outstanding

124 assessments are final orders; 14 contested dockets.

Of $99K in penalties contested before the Commission, $33K was upheld in final decisions.

As of the most recent assessment on 2024-10-22.

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.

36.0%

significant & substantial

11.3%

high negligence or reckless

35.5%

reasonably likely or greater

26.6%

permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs

Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 15.3% low, 73.4% moderate, 11.3% 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.

19 citations taken to the federal commission · 15% of citations on record

Settled 14 · 74%
Stood as issued 5 · 26%

91%

S&S designation survived the contest

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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 11 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%

63%

Penalty reduction in decided contests

$89K proposed, $33K 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 2018-06-17. 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
LAKE 2010-935	Settlement	Miller	2011	$52K → $5K
WEVA 2009-245	Withdrawal	Lesnick	2010	$10K → $0
WEVA 2013-283	Default	Lesnick	2013	$7K → $7K
WEVA 2012-1417	Default	Lesnick	2013	$6K → $6K
WEVA 2010-883	Settlement	Andrews	2011	$5K → $2K
WEVA 2010-882	Settlement	Andrews	2011	$4K → $2K

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 Strata Mine Services, LLC 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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