Mining Incidents

Tony J Beltramo & Sons Inc: 266 MSHA citations operator

MSHA operator ID: L12462

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Mines on record
1
Years on record
2002
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
266
citations
90
significant & substantial
$77,815
proposed penalties
$59,409
paid to date
76% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $18,406 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
100
inspections on record
1,221
inspection hours
21.8
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.
266 citations across 1,221 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.
$78K
proposed penalties
$59K
current assessed
$59K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
247 assessments are final orders; 23 contested dockets.
Of $55K in penalties contested before the Commission, $36K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-11-18.
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.
36.4%
significant & substantial
17.0%
high negligence or reckless
36.4%
reasonably likely or greater
56.7%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 12.1% low, 70.9% moderate, 17.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
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: 2024-09-11
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
12
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg9
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz2
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1

Area samples (mill and shop air)

Last sampled: 2014-06-10, 12 years ago
1
samples
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
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.
117 citations taken to the federal commission · 44% of citations on record
  • Settled 89 · 76%
  • Stood as issued 28 · 24%
96%
S&S designation survived the contest
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 54 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
32%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$46K proposed, $31K 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 2024-06-05. Vacated and withdrawn citations are removed from the file this view attributes through, so that outcome is slightly undercounted here.
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
WEST 2007-207M Settlement Manning 2007 $12K → $3K
WEST 2004-52-M Dismissal Manning 2004 $8K → $4K
WEST 2011-661M Settlement Andrews 2012 $5K → $4K
WEST 2018-0067 Settlement Manning 2018 $5K → $3K
WEST 2008-898M Settlement Manning 2009 $4K → $2K
WEST 2011-660M Settlement Andrews 2012 $4K → $4K
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.

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2002
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Mines on record

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Where Tony J Beltramo & Sons Inc stands on silica, penalties, and injury rate

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