What are TK Mining & Specialties Services A division of CSA's MSHA penalties?

TK Mining & Specialties Services A division of CSA has $403K in proposed MSHA penalties on record, $321K paid, and $0 outstanding.

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TK Mining & Specialties Services A division of CSA: 221 MSHA citations operator

MSHA operator ID: K393

TK Mining & Specialties Services A division of CSA has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA. MSHA has proposed $403K in penalties since 2006.

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

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2006

221

citations

significant & substantial

$403,337

proposed penalties

$321,715

paid to date

80% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $81,622 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.

$403K

proposed penalties

$321K

current assessed

$321K

paid to date

outstanding

218 assessments are final orders; 12 contested dockets.

Of $308K in penalties contested before the Commission, $226K was upheld in final decisions.

As of the most recent assessment on 2018-01-29.

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

8.7%

high negligence or reckless

33.3%

reasonably likely or greater

25.6%

permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs

Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 5.0% low, 86.3% moderate, 8.2% high, 0.5% 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.

37 citations taken to the federal commission · 17% of citations on record

Settled 37 · 100%

92%

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 25 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%

26%

Penalty reduction in decided contests

$308K proposed, $226K 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 2014-10-08. 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 2008-1373	Settlement	Manning	2010	$71K → $71K
WEST 2008-1561	Settlement	Manning	2011	$60K → $45K
WEST 2008-368	Settlement	Manning	2010	$38K → $16K
WEST 2008-62	Settlement	Miller	2009	$38K → $24K
WEST 2008-750	Settlement	Manning	2010	$37K → $33K
WEST 2009-870	Settlement	Lesnick	2010	$25K → $11K

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 TK Mining & Specialties Services A division of CSA stands on silica, penalties, and injury rate

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