Youngquist Brothers Rock Inc.: 323 MSHA citations operator
Controlled by
Harvey Youngquist; Tim G Youngquist
MSHA operator ID: L15777
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 32
- Mines on record
- 2
- Years on record
- 1998–2018
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2003
323
citations
78
significant & substantial
$209,719
proposed penalties
$160,699
paid to date
77% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $49,020 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2003
77
inspections on record
2,009
inspection hours
16.1
citations per 100 inspection hours
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This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.323 citations across 2,009 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections 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.$210K
proposed penalties
$161K
current assessed
$161K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
318 assessments are final orders; 18 contested dockets.
Of $147K in penalties contested before the Commission, $95K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-05-29.
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.24.5%
significant & substantial
13.8%
high negligence or reckless
24.5%
reasonably likely or greater
39.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 10.4% low, 75.8% moderate, 13.8% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2024
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This rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.77 and the all-US-mining average was 2.08 cases per 100 workers.
| Year | total case rate | days-away | fatal |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.000 |
| 2023 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.000 |
| 2022 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.000 |
| 2021 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.000 |
| 2020 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.000 |
| 2019 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.000 |
| 2018 | 1.02 | 1.02 | 0.000 |
| 2017 | 2.20 | 1.10 | 0.000 |
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Health sampling
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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)
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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: 2021-07-27, 5 years ago
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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.0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
25
samples
7
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
- Respirable dust, <.1mg18
- Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz4
- Arsenic fumes1
- Beryllium fumes1
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
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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.
82
citations taken to the federal commission · 25% of citations on record
- Settled 43 · 52%
- Stood as issued 38 · 46%
- Vacated or withdrawn 1 · 1%
73%
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 40 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
34%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$144K proposed, $95K 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 2023-09-21. 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 2008-325M | Settlement | Hodgdon | 2008 | $36K → $29K |
| SE 2015-0284 | Settlement | McCarthy | 2016 | $32K → $23K |
| SE 2007-332M | Settlement | Zielinski | 2008 | $29K → $11K |
| SE 2023-0259 | Settlement | Paez | 2024 | $17K → $5K |
| SE 2012-266M | Settlement | Gill | 2014 | $13K → $10K |
| SE 2011-303M | Default | Lesnick | 2011 | $6K → $6K |
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.
Top causes
- MACHINERY 10 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS 6 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 6 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 5 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE 3 non-fatal
- STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT 2 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2018
1
2017
2
2016
1
2015
7
2014
2
2012
2
2010
1
2009
4
2008
3
2007
2
2006
1
2005
3
1999
1
1998
2
Mines on record
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Where Youngquist Brothers Rock 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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