What are Two Eight Drilling DBA Venture Drilling East, LLC.'s MSHA penalties?

Two Eight Drilling DBA Venture Drilling East, LLC. has $32K in proposed MSHA penalties on record, $32K paid, and $0 outstanding.

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Two Eight Drilling DBA Venture Drilling East, LLC.: 76 MSHA citations operator

MSHA operator ID: A9499

Two Eight Drilling DBA Venture Drilling East, LLC. has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA. MSHA has proposed $32K in penalties since 2014.

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

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2014

citations

significant & substantial

$32,005

proposed penalties

$32,005

paid to date

100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 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.

$32K

proposed penalties

$32K

current assessed

$32K

paid to date

outstanding

72 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.

Of $169 in penalties contested before the Commission, $169 was upheld in final decisions.

As of the most recent assessment on 2026-08-03.

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.

20.3%

significant & substantial

10.8%

high negligence or reckless

20.3%

reasonably likely or greater

55.4%

permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs

Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 5.4% low, 83.8% moderate, 10.8% 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.

1 citations taken to the federal commission · 1% of citations on record

Stood as issued 1 · 100%

Penalty reduction in decided contests

$169 proposed, $169 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 2022-02-16. 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
SE 2022-0068	Default		2022	$169 → $169

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 Two Eight Drilling DBA Venture Drilling East, 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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