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Secretary of Labor v. Phoenix Industrial Inc.
Secretary of Labor v. Phoenix Industrial Inc. (FMSHRC WEST 2025-0068): Default vacated and penalty case reopened
Phoenix Industrial asked the Commission to reopen a civil penalty case after an unanswered show-cause order became a default. Phoenix said it had mailed an answer at the start of the case, stayed in contact with the Secretary's representative, and did not recognize later email notices as applying…
Secretary of Labor v. Responsible Energy Operations, LLC
Secretary of Labor v. Responsible Energy Operations, LLC (FMSHRC LAKE 2025-0279): Late penalty contest reopened
Responsible Energy missed the 30-day deadline to contest a proposed MSHA penalty after its safety manager miscalculated the due date. The manager discovered the error one day after the assessment became final, immediately sent it to counsel, and counsel promptly tried to contest and then moved to…
Secretary of Labor v. Heidelberg Materials Midwest Agg. Inc.
Secretary of Labor v. Heidelberg Materials Midwest Agg. Inc. (FMSHRC LAKE 2025-0260): Reopening request dismissed after full payment
Heidelberg Materials asked the Commission to reopen a proposed penalty assessment that had become final when no contest was filed within 30 days. The company said a payment check had been sent but returned to its corporate office without being delivered to MSHA. It later reissued the check, and…
Secretary of Labor v. Cyber Square
Secretary of Labor v. Cyber Square (FMSHRC CENT 2025-0308): Misrouted penalty contest reopened
Cyber Square tried to contest part of an MSHA penalty assessment but mailed its contest to the St. Louis payment address instead of the Civil Penalty Compliance Office. It paid the penalties for the citations it did not intend to contest. After the assessment became final and MSHA sent a…
Wanda Palo v. United States Steel Corp.
Wanda Palo v. United States Steel Corp. (FMSHRC LAKE 2023-0202-DM): Discrimination dismissal reversed
Miner Wanda Palo alleged that U.S. Steel fired her for reporting a workplace assault and resulting injury. An Administrative Law Judge dismissed the complaint after accepting the company's position that she violated injury-reporting rules and a last chance agreement. The Commission majority held…
STIS, Inc., dba Southeast Texas Industrial Services
Crane overload and operator-evaluation violations affirmed
STIS was a construction subcontractor working at a steel mill in Pueblo, Colorado. OSHA cited the company after a carry deck crane tipped while lifting four pipes weighing about 800 pounds each, resulting in the crane operator's death. The judge found that the crane exceeded its rated capacity when…
Cecil Matney, Jr. v. Rockwell Mining, LLC
Cecil Matney, Jr. v. Rockwell Mining, LLC (FMSHRC WEVA 2023-0126): Part 90 interference finding affirmed
Cecil Matney developed black lung disease and exercised his right as a Part 90 miner to work in an area with lower respirable dust. The Commission credited findings that Rockwell changed Matney's duties while dust sampling occurred, provided insufficient staffing at other times, and left him…
Secretary of Labor v. ASARCO LLC
Secretary of Labor v. ASARCO LLC (FMSHRC WEST 2025-0295): Two-day-late penalty contest reopened
ASARCO missed the deadline to contest a proposed MSHA penalty during a short management staffing transition. Its safety manager received the assessment later than the company and emailed a contest two days after the assessment became final. The company moved to reopen three days after discovering…
C Pacific Corporation, dba Five Star Builders
Three scaffold violations affirmed with a grouped penalty
C Pacific Corporation was a construction subcontractor installing aluminum cladding on a car dealership in Puerto Rico, Saipan. OSHA found employees working on a four-level scaffold with incomplete planking, missing stair rails, and missing guardrails, creating fall exposures of 5 to 20 feet. The…
Disciplinary Proceeding In Re Andy Carson
Disciplinary Proceeding In Re Andy Carson (FMSHRC CENT 2025-0180): Attorney discipline inquiry sent for hearing
An Administrative Law Judge referred attorney Andy Carson for possible discipline after Carson accused the Judge of bias and of seeking to aid false testimony. The Commission had already rejected those accusations while deciding the related mine case. It made a preliminary finding that further…
Secretary of Labor on behalf of Nicholas Rubio v. Castle Mountain Venture
Secretary of Labor on behalf of Nicholas Rubio v. Castle Mountain Venture (FMSHRC WEST 2024-0283): Blanket settlement seal vacated
The Secretary and Castle Mountain settled a miner discrimination complaint, and the operator asked to seal the entire settlement based on an unspecified business interest and a separate confidentiality agreement with the miner. The Administrative Law Judge granted that request over the Secretary's…
Secretary of Labor on behalf of Brek Pinkerton v. RMC Mining Development, LLC, et al.
Secretary of Labor on behalf of Brek Pinkerton v. RMC Mining Development, LLC, et al. (FMSHRC WEST 2024-0114): Default reopening denied
Matthew Head asked the Commission to reopen a default decision finding Mine Act discrimination and imposing a $30,000 civil penalty plus $88,497 in damages. He argued that he missed notices sent to an old business email, misunderstood which respondent would handle the case, and believed parts of…
Riverdale Mills Corporation
EAJA fee application denied
Riverdale Mills manufactures coated wire mesh at a facility in Northbridge, Massachusetts. The underlying OSHA cases followed an employee's serious injury in a coating line and produced a mixed merits decision that affirmed three citation items and vacated several lockout/tagout and…
Secretary of Labor v. Ramaco Resources, LLC
Secretary of Labor v. Ramaco Resources, LLC (FMSHRC WEVA 2026-0038): Six late penalty contests reopened
Ramaco sought to reopen six proposed penalty assessments after its notices of contest were filed one day late. The assessments had been forwarded to the company's vice president of law five days after receipt, and he mistakenly calculated the deadline from the forwarding date. The Secretary did not…
H.G. Arias & Associates, LLC
Hazard-communication training citation vacated
H.G. Arias & Associates was an El Paso staffing agency that supplied temporary employees to Stampcoat, a metal-products manufacturer. OSHA originally issued three serious citation items, withdrew two before trial, and pursued a $9,680 hazard-communication training item concerning four Arias…
Secretary of Labor v. Quikrete Construction Materials, LLC
Secretary of Labor v. Quikrete Construction Materials, LLC (FMSHRC WEVA 2025-0541): Staffing-gap default reopened
Quikrete failed to contest a proposed penalty assessment while responsibility for penalty filings was changing between plant managers. The former manager had resigned, and the assessment arrived six days before the new manager began. Quikrete discovered the default after outside counsel found the…
Secretary of Labor v. Mountain Stone Aggregates
Secretary of Labor v. Mountain Stone Aggregates (FMSHRC WEST 2026-0003): Misaddressed assessment never became final
Mountain Stone asked to reopen a proposed penalty assessment that appeared to have become final. Postal tracking showed that MSHA's mailing was not delivered because the address was insufficient, and the operator reported repeated mailings to the wrong address. The Secretary did not oppose relief…
Secretary of Labor v. Stillwater Mining Company
Secretary of Labor v. Stillwater Mining Company (FMSHRC WEST 2025-0254): Docketing-error default reopened
Stillwater was defaulted after the Commission had no record of an answer to an order to show cause. The company produced postal tracking records showing that it timely mailed an answer but had omitted the docket number, which may have prevented proper docketing. It moved to reopen within two weeks…
Secretary of Labor v. Hoopers Creek Stone, LLC
Secretary of Labor v. Hoopers Creek Stone, LLC (FMSHRC SE 2025-0153): Unexplained default request denied
Hoopers Creek failed to answer the Secretary's penalty petition and then did not respond to an order to show cause, causing the Judge's default order to become final. The company later submitted a late answer that the Commission treated as a possible request to reopen. The filing did not explain…
Secretary of Labor v. Paulsen Inc.
Secretary of Labor v. Paulsen Inc. (FMSHRC CENT 2026-0069): Vague reopening request denied
Paulsen asked the Commission to reopen a proposed penalty assessment that had become final after no timely contest was filed. Its aggregate division manager said the penalties were paid by mistake because she believed the citations involved another Paulsen location. The Commission found that…
Secretary of Labor v. GMS Mine Repair & Maintenance, Inc.
Secretary of Labor v. GMS Mine Repair & Maintenance, Inc. (FMSHRC VA 2023-0021): Mine safeguard enforced against contractor
GMS, an independent contractor at Buchanan Mine No. 1, admitted that one of its miners drove past a red block light and caused a head-on rail collision that seriously injured multiple miners. It argued that the mine-specific safeguard could not be enforced against it because MSHA had issued the…
Secretary of Labor v. W.G. Yates & Sons Construction Company
Secretary of Labor v. W.G. Yates & Sons Construction Company (FMSHRC SE 2023-0094): Hot-work fire citation affirmed
Yates was cutting steel in a phosphate mine building when hot slag entered an uncovered drain and ignited a rubber-lined discharge pipe. The fire burned for about 17 minutes, produced thick black smoke, and required the mine rescue team to extinguish it after six fire extinguishers proved…
Secretary of Labor v. Mitsubishi Cement Corporation
Secretary of Labor v. Mitsubishi Cement Corporation (FMSHRC WEST 2025-0190): Unsupported default request denied
Mitsubishi timely contested an MSHA citation but later defaulted after the Commission received neither its answer to the penalty petition nor its response to an order to show cause. The company said its safety superintendent had prepared both answers, but it supplied no filing documentation and the…
Secretary of Labor v. Nally & Hamilton Enterprises, Inc.
Secretary of Labor v. Nally & Hamilton Enterprises, Inc. (FMSHRC KENT 2026-0007): Six reopening motions denied
Nally sought to reopen six penalty assessments after mine personnel decided to contest them but emails to counsel were either not received or overlooked. The communication failures continued for about three months, and the company did not explain why its system failed. MSHA also sent delinquency…
MDLG, Inc., dba Phenix Lumber Company
Twenty-eight violations and $2.47 million penalty affirmed
MDLG operated Phenix Lumber Company, where an employee died after falling into a woodchipper auger while trying to clear a jam. OSHA cited five serious violations, 22 willful-serious violations, and one repeat violation involving lockout/tagout, guarding, fall protection, powered industrial trucks…
Secretary of Labor v. Material Sand & Stone Corp.
Secretary of Labor v. Material Sand & Stone Corp. (FMSHRC YORK 2025-0043): Two unexplained defaults left in place
Material Sand & Stone defaulted in two penalty cases after failing to answer the Secretary's petitions and the Commission's orders to show cause. The company generally asserted that it had not received some petitions or show-cause orders during an MSHA personnel change, and in one case said it…
Secretary of Labor v. Cactus Canyon Quarries, Inc.
Secretary of Labor v. Cactus Canyon Quarries, Inc. (FMSHRC CENT 2023-0045): Stone-processing plant held subject to MSHA
Cactus Canyon challenged MSHA's authority over its Fairland Plant, a surface facility that washes, sorts, crushes, sizes, and roasts stone for terrazzo flooring. The Commission held that those activities constitute milling, so the facility is a mine under the Mine Act even though most stone is…
Secretary of Labor v. Cactus Canyon Quarries, Inc.
Secretary of Labor v. Cactus Canyon Quarries, Inc. (FMSHRC CENT 2022-0010): Electrical citations and MSHA jurisdiction affirmed
MSHA cited three electrical conditions at Cactus Canyon's Fairland Plant, which crushes and sizes stone for terrazzo flooring. The company argued that the facility was outside Mine Act jurisdiction because extraction did not occur on or near the site. The Commission held that crushing and sizing…
U.S. Postal Service, dba Kenton Station
Four asbestos-related violations affirmed with reduced penalties
The Postal Service operated Kenton Station in Portland, Oregon, where asbestos-containing flooring was present in work and custodial areas. OSHA alleged repeat violations for missing annual asbestos training, deficient asbestos housekeeping, an incomplete hazardous-chemical list, and the absence of…
Secretary of Labor v. Material Sand & Stone Corporation
Secretary of Labor v. Material Sand & Stone Corporation (FMSHRC YORK 2025-0020): Unserved default order held nonfinal
Material Sand & Stone asked to reopen a default after it sent its answer to the Secretary's representative instead of filing it with the Commission. The company said it never received the Commission's order to show cause and later pursued the matter after delinquency and collection notices arrived…
Secretary of Labor v. Rulon Harper Construction, Inc.
Secretary of Labor v. Rulon Harper Construction, Inc. (FMSHRC WEST 2022-0249): Unsupported settlement reductions rejected
The Secretary and Rulon proposed settlements covering ten citations and orders, with large reductions in gravity, negligence, significant-and-substantial designations, and penalties. The proposed total penalties would have fallen from $22,944 to $3,936 in one docket and from $22,134 to $7,227 in…
Pooler Enterprises
Excavation cave-in citation vacated for lack of exposure proof
Pooler Enterprises performed utility and site work at a construction project in Penfield, New York. OSHA amended its original citation to allege that Pooler failed to protect employees from cave-ins in an excavation measuring more than six feet deep, with a proposed penalty of $4,662. The judge…
Secretary of Labor v. Kalamazoo Materials, Inc.
Secretary of Labor v. Kalamazoo Materials, Inc. (FMSHRC WEST 2025-0326): Unexplained reopening request denied
Kalamazoo did not contest a proposed penalty assessment within 30 days, and MSHA later sent both a delinquency letter and a warning about escalating unpaid penalties. The company eventually forwarded the warning letter and a list of citations to the Commission, which treated the submission as a…
Secretary of Labor v. Smart Sand, Inc.
Secretary of Labor v. Smart Sand, Inc. (FMSHRC LAKE 2025-0274): Calendaring-error contest reopened
Smart Sand and its counsel decided to contest one citation, but the deadline was not calendared after a paralegal's recent departure. Counsel discovered the missed contest while proactively reviewing MSHA's data system and moved to reopen within two weeks. An affidavit documented the error, and the…
Secretary of Labor v. Trap Rock & Granite Quarries, LLC
Secretary of Labor v. Trap Rock & Granite Quarries, LLC (FMSHRC CENT 2025-0051): Personnel-transition default reopened
Trap Rock defaulted after the site superintendent handling the penalty case left the company and the replacement superintendent did not know about the proceeding. The Secretary did not oppose reopening and could not confirm that another company representative received the show-cause order. Trap…
Secretary of Labor v. Leroy's Excavating, Inc.
Secretary of Labor v. Leroy's Excavating, Inc. (FMSHRC CENT 2025-0031): Unsupported non-receipt claim denied
Leroy's Excavating defaulted after its attorney did not answer the Secretary's penalty petition or the Commission's order to show cause. The company later asserted that neither it nor its attorney received the show-cause order. Commission records showed that the order was sent to the company's…
Secretary of Labor v. Cargill Incorporated
Secretary of Labor v. Cargill Incorporated (FMSHRC LAKE 2022-0285): Unsafe escapeway citation reinstated
Cargill's underground salt mine used a return-air route as a secondary escapeway after blasting, when nitrogen dioxide readings reached as high as 8.2 parts per million. An ALJ vacated MSHA's citation after concluding that the gas level did not make the escapeway unsafe and that Cargill lacked fair…
Secretary of Labor v. Doe Run Co.
Secretary of Labor v. Doe Run Co. (FMSHRC CENT 2025-0167): Pressure-vessel citation affirmed
Doe Run operates an underground lead, copper, and zinc mine where a 250-gallon pressurized water tank on a drill had not been inspected by a certified National Board inspector during roughly 20 years of use. MSHA cited 30 C.F.R. § 57.13015(a), and Doe Run argued that a 2004 National Board document…
Americold Logistics
Unstable railcar load citation vacated
Americold Logistics operated a cold-storage facility in La Porte, Texas, where employees unloaded refrigerated railcars. While two employees were unloading boxes of frozen chicken feet, one or more pallets collapsed onto them, leaving one employee with minor injuries and another paralyzed. OSHA…
Secretary of Labor v. Bourbeau Aggregate, LLC
Secretary of Labor v. Bourbeau Aggregate, LLC (FMSHRC YORK 2025-0059): Conference-request default left final
Bourbeau received a proposed assessment but sent a conference request through a trade association instead of filing the required penalty contest. It waited for an MSHA response and sought reopening after a Treasury collection letter arrived. The Commission majority held that the motion did not…
Secretary of Labor v. Cyber Square
Secretary of Labor v. Cyber Square (FMSHRC CENT 2025-0127): Missing assessment reopened
Cyber Square received two copies of one $610 assessment but could not locate a different $4,084 assessment containing three citations it intended to contest. It discovered the missing assessment when later paperwork showed the citations as final and immediately contacted MSHA. The company filed its…
Secretary of Labor v. DelHur Industries, Inc.
Secretary of Labor v. DelHur Industries, Inc. (FMSHRC CENT 2025-0269): Post-office delivery delay excused
MSHA treated DelHur's assessment as delivered when it reached the local post office serving the company's post-office box. DelHur said it did not actually receive the assessment until 12 days later and calculated its contest deadline from that date. The company mailed its contest within that…
Secretary of Labor v. Canyon Fuel Company, LLC, Shane Allred, and Michael Cooper
Secretary of Labor v. Canyon Fuel Company, LLC, Shane Allred, and Michael Cooper (FMSHRC WEST 2021-0229): Rib and accident-reporting orders upheld
A rib burst at Canyon Fuel's underground coal mine partially buried a miner, caused a traumatic head injury, and required surgery, but mine management did not notify MSHA within 15 minutes. The Commission affirmed violations for inadequate rib control and failure to report an injury with a…
Secretary of Labor v. Ramsey Hill Exploration, LLC
Secretary of Labor v. Ramsey Hill Exploration, LLC (FMSHRC CENT 2026-0005): Delayed assessment challenge denied
Ramsey Hill timely contested an underlying withdrawal order and several related assessments but failed to contest the assessment tied to that order. The company offered two inconsistent explanations: management believed the assessment was already among those contested, while counsel believed MSHA…
Secretary of Labor v. Superior Silica Sands, LLC
Secretary of Labor v. Superior Silica Sands, LLC (FMSHRC CENT 2025-0337): Reopening motion withdrawn
Superior Silica Sands filed a motion asking the Commission to reopen the case. The company later asked to withdraw that motion. The Commission granted the withdrawal request and dismissed the case. The short official release does not describe the underlying assessment, the reason reopening was…
Secretary of Labor v. The Monarch Cement Company
Secretary of Labor v. The Monarch Cement Company (FMSHRC CENT 2025-0331): Inspection-workload excuse rejected
Monarch Cement failed to contest an assessment because personnel set it aside while they were occupied with an MSHA inspection. The Secretary opposed reopening. The Commission held that MSHA inspections are routine events and that operators must maintain procedures for handling recurring Mine Act…
Secretary of Labor v. Gordon Sand Co.
Secretary of Labor v. Gordon Sand Co. (FMSHRC WEST 2023-0055): Long delinquency history defeats reopening
Gordon Sand sought reopening after MSHA issued a separate citation for failure to pay more than $25,000 in outstanding penalties. The company attributed its difficulties to the 2020 death of the person who had handled mining matters but did not describe a replacement process for assessments. The…
Brigade Energy Services LLC
Explosive-handling citation vacated
Brigade Energy Services was the general contractor for work to plug and abandon an oil well in Grassy Butte, North Dakota. A surface explosion occurred while a Brigade worker held a wireline component as a specialty contractor connected it to a steel tube loaded with explosives, injuring three…
Secretary of Labor v. Tehachapi Cement, LLC
Secretary of Labor v. Tehachapi Cement, LLC (FMSHRC WEST 2025-0145): New-manager filing mistake excused
A recently assigned safety manager believed MSHA's penalty office would forward Tehachapi's contest for 15 penalties to the correct division. While checking another mine, he realized that he had not followed the proper contest procedure. He sent the assessment to counsel the next day, and counsel…
Secretary of Labor v. American Soda, LLC
Secretary of Labor v. American Soda, LLC (FMSHRC WEST 2025-0115): Unchecked contest box excused
American Soda intended to contest seven citations, but an office assistant failed to check the box for one citation on the submitted contest form. The safety manager discovered the omission and the company filed for reopening two days later. The Secretary did not oppose relief, noting the…
Secretary of Labor v. JW Construction Company, Inc.
Secretary of Labor v. JW Construction Company, Inc. (FMSHRC VA 2025-0025): Holiday-disruption default reopened
JW Construction's safety director reviewed an assessment after holiday absences and a snow and ice storm but delayed acting on it. His attention was then redirected to an MSHA individual-liability investigation involving a serious nonfatal accident and related interviews. The company filed its…
Secretary of Labor v. Warrior Met Coal Mining, LLC
Secretary of Labor v. Warrior Met Coal Mining, LLC (FMSHRC SE 2025-0082): Returned assessment held nonfinal
Warrior Met said it did not receive the proposed assessment before the contest deadline. Postal tracking showed that the assessment went out for delivery but was marked for return to sender the same day and later returned to the post office. The Secretary could not confirm delivery and did not…
Secretary of Labor v. Rush County Stone Co., Inc.
Secretary of Labor v. Rush County Stone Co., Inc. (FMSHRC LAKE 2025-0270): One-day deadline typo excused
Rush County decided to contest an assessment, but its attorney mistyped the deadline in the firm's scheduling system as May 29 instead of May 28. Counsel filed on the mistaken date and sought reopening 21 days after MSHA reported the one-day default. The Secretary did not oppose relief. The firm…
Secretary of Labor v. Mountain Stone Aggregate
Secretary of Labor v. Mountain Stone Aggregate (FMSHRC WEST 2025-0262): Wrong-address assessment held nonfinal
Mountain Stone said MSHA mailed its proposed assessment to an address different from the current address shown on the company's official form. The Secretary could not confirm that the assessment was delivered to or received by the operator and did not oppose relief. The Commission held that the…
Secretary of Labor v. National Lime and Stone Company
Secretary of Labor v. National Lime and Stone Company (FMSHRC LAKE 2025-0237): Late imminent-danger contest reopened
National Lime sought an MSHA conference on an imminent-danger withdrawal order and believed that request also contested the order before the Commission. It learned one week after the statutory deadline that imminent-danger orders require a separate contest filing. The company sought reopening the…
Secretary of Labor v. Patton Mining LLC
Secretary of Labor v. Patton Mining LLC (FMSHRC LAKE 2025-0199): Misplaced assessment reopened
A proposed assessment was placed on the safety manager's desk while he was away and apparently fell between the desk and wall. The manager found it four days after the contest deadline, and the company received a delinquency notice several days later. Patton investigated the handling failure…
Secretary of Labor v. U.S. Aggregates, Inc.
Secretary of Labor v. U.S. Aggregates, Inc. (FMSHRC LAKE 2025-0315): Five-month reopening delay denied
U.S. Aggregates timely contested two citations issued after a miner was fatally electrocuted but did not separately contest the later proposed penalties. The company discovered the final penalties in MSHA's database, attempted an untimely email contest, and acknowledged the need for a Commission…
Pleasant Mount Welding, Inc.
Flexible-cord item vacated and reporting item affirmed
Pleasant Mount Welding was a Pennsylvania structural-metal fabricator inspected under OSHA's amputation-hazard emphasis program. OSHA cited the company for using flexible cords with a milling machine and a bending machine, and for failing to electronically submit its 2023 OSHA 300A injury and…
Secretary of Labor v. Wyo-Ben, Inc.
Secretary of Labor v. Wyo-Ben, Inc. (FMSHRC WEST 2023-0320): Missing delivered assessment reopened
Wyo-Ben timely contested a citation but could not locate the later penalty assessment, which postal records showed had been retrieved from its address. When the expected assessment still had not surfaced, the vice president proactively checked MSHA's database and discovered that it had become…
Robert Thomas v. CalPortland Company
Robert Thomas v. CalPortland Company (FMSHRC WEST 2018-0402): Discrimination case remanded for damages
Miner Robert Thomas alleged that CalPortland suspended and terminated him because of protected safety activity. After multiple Commission and Ninth Circuit decisions, the court held that the Commission had misapplied substantial-evidence review and that the ALJ's findings established Thomas's…
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