Guarding Citations (MNM)
Fiscal Year Total Citations & Orders *
2006 62,761 2007 58,529 2008 67,712 2009 68,384 2010 74,848 2011 65,137 2012** 46,583
Guarding Citations & Orders *
10,102 8,668 9,704 9,853
10,877 8,037
5140 (# 6624)
% Guarding Citations & Orders *
16.1 14.8 14.3 14.4 14.5 12.3 11.0
* Includes all C & O for 30 C.F.R. §§ 56/57.14107, .14108, .14109, &.14112 ** FY 2012 YTD, 7/10/2012; # - Projected through end FY
Source: Mine Safety and Health Administration
inspection hour are down 13 percent after mines received an initial impact inspection; significant and substantial (S&S) violation rates are down 21 percent; 104(d) orders are down 43 percent; and the total lost-time injury rate is down 13 percent, according to MSHA.
"Unfortunately, there are still mines that haven't gotten the message," Main pointed out. "The egregious problems found during some of these impact inspections and the extreme measures MSHA had to take to find them — arriving off-shift and commandeering mine phones — validate the administration's support of focused improvements to the Mine Act that will give MSHA the tools it needs to address chronic violators."
For a downloadable PDF of a presentation Joseph Main gave to several aggregates groups in July, go to http://www. msha.gov/Media/SPEECHES/2012/NNSGAJMain71312. pdf. For a slideshow put together by MSHA to help mine operators with guarding compliance issues, go to http://www. msha.gov/Accident_Prevention/GuardingMachineryMNMMines.pdf.
6 AGGREGATES MANAGER December 2012
