What are Vezer Industrial Professionals Inc.'s MSHA penalties?

Vezer Industrial Professionals Inc. has $86K in proposed MSHA penalties on record, $63K paid, and $4 outstanding.

Vezer Industrial Professionals Inc.: 151 MSHA citations operator

MSHA operator ID: 5WR

Vezer Industrial Professionals Inc. has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA. MSHA has proposed $86K in penalties since 2001, with $4 outstanding.

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

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2001

151

citations

significant & substantial

$86,051

proposed penalties

$63,414

paid to date

74% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $22,637 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.

$86K

proposed penalties

$63K

current assessed

$63K

paid to date

outstanding

147 assessments are final orders; 10 contested dockets.

Of $63K in penalties contested before the Commission, $28K was upheld in final decisions.

As of the most recent assessment on 2025-10-08.

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.

36.5%

significant & substantial

4.1%

high negligence or reckless

36.5%

reasonably likely or greater

41.2%

permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs

Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 12.8% low, 83.1% moderate, 4.1% 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.

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

Settled 24 · 96%
Stood as issued 1 · 4%

61%

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 18 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%

44%

Penalty reduction in decided contests

$51K proposed, $28K 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 2026-03-26. 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 2006-91M	Settlement	Weisberger	2006	$16K → $6K
LAKE 2018-0319	Settlement	Paez	2019	$14K → $450
WEST 2008-1119M	Settlement	Lesnick	2009	$11K → $9K
WEST 2019-0234	Settlement	Miller	2019	$8K → $5K
LAKE 2018-0355	Settlement	Paez	2019	$8K → $6K
SE 2026-0075	Dismissal		2026	$3K → $0

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 Vezer Industrial Professionals 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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