What are Sylvester Material Co Inc's MSHA penalties?

Sylvester Material Co Inc has $13K in proposed MSHA penalties on record, $10K paid, and $132 outstanding.

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Sylvester Material Co Inc: 122 MSHA citations operator

Controlled by Jeffery J Stansley

MSHA operator ID: L17112

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 22
Mines on record: 5
Years on record: 1997–2005

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2000

122

citations

significant & substantial

$12,834

proposed penalties

$10,303

paid to date

80% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $2,531 gap.

Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.

Inspection activity

MSHA inspections since 2000

inspections on record

927

inspection hours

n/a

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.

Rate withheld: 927 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.

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.

$13K

proposed penalties

$10K

current assessed

$10K

paid to date

$132

outstanding

122 assessments are final orders; 9 contested dockets.

Of $6K in penalties contested before the Commission, $4K was upheld in final decisions.

As of the most recent assessment on 2006-04-12.

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.

26.2%

significant & substantial

8.2%

high negligence or reckless

25.4%

reasonably likely or greater

62.3%

permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs

Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 7.4% low, 84.4% moderate, 8.2% high, 0.0% reckless.

Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.

Injury rate, 2005

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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.

9.49

total case rate

1.90

days-away rate

0.000

fatality rate

Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 3.76 and the all-US-mining average was 4.21 cases per 100 workers.

Year	total case rate	days-away
2005	9.49	1.90
2004 *	4.57	2.28
2003	1.95	0.00
2002	1.86	1.86
2001 *	2.49	2.49
2000 *	0.00	0.00

* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.

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

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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)

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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: 2005-06-14, 21 years ago

of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit

samples

limit-tested

Most sampled contaminants

Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz91 over
Respirable dust, <.1mg13
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz12
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <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.

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.

27 citations taken to the federal commission · 22% of citations on record

Settled 27 · 100%

88%

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 8 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%

41%

Penalty reduction in decided contests

$5K proposed, $3K 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 2007-01-07. 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 2006-17M	Settlement	Lesnick	2006	$2K → $1K
LAKE 2007-40M	Settlement	Lesnick	2007	$2K → $1K
LAKE 2006-7M	Settlement	Lesnick	2006	$739 → $415
LAKE20010159M	Settlement	Barbour	2001	$735 → $463
LAKE20020031M	Settlement	Barbour	2002	$300 → $200
LAKE 2004-62-M	Dismissal	Lesnick	2004	$180 → $120

Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.

Top causes

HANDLING OF MATERIALS 5 non-fatal
HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 5 non-fatal
MACHINERY 4 non-fatal
SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 4 non-fatal
POWERED HAULAGE 2 non-fatal
OTHER 1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

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Where Sylvester Material Co 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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