What are Williams Refractory Services Inc.'s MSHA penalties?

Williams Refractory Services Inc. has $9K in proposed MSHA penalties on record, $9K paid, and $302 outstanding.

Williams Refractory Services Inc.: 45 MSHA citations operator

MSHA operator ID: KVE

Williams Refractory Services Inc. has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA. MSHA has proposed $9K in penalties since 2000, with $302 outstanding.

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

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2000

citations

significant & substantial

$9,842

proposed penalties

$9,540

paid to date

97% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $302 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.

$9K

proposed penalties

$9K

current assessed

$9K

paid to date

$302

outstanding

42 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.

As of the most recent assessment on 2026-07-21.

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

15.6%

high negligence or reckless

35.6%

reasonably likely or greater

51.1%

permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs

Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 2.2% low, 82.2% moderate, 15.6% 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 · 2% of citations on record

Settled 1 · 100%

Penalty reduction in decided contests

$626 proposed, $626 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 A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record.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 2024-04-21. Vacated and withdrawn citations are removed from the file this view attributes through, so that outcome is slightly undercounted here.

No reportable incidents on file.

MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents associated with this operator.

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Where Williams Refractory Services Inc. stands on silica, penalties, and injury rate

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