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Emery Mining Corporation and/or Utah Power & Light Company (ALJ decision, January 27, 1989)

Emery Mining Corporation and/or Utah Power & Light Company (FMSHRC WEST 87-130-R): Consolidated matters returned to the Docket Office

Decision type
ALJ decision
Dockets
WEST 87-130-R, WEST 87-131-R, WEST 87-131-R, WEST 87-133-R, WEST 87-134-R, WEST 87-135-R, WEST 87-136-R, WEST 87-137-R, WEST 87-144-R, WEST 87-145-R, WEST 87-146-R, WEST 87-147-R, WEST 87-150-R, WEST 87-152-R, WEST 87-153-R, WEST 87-155-R, WEST 87-156-R, WEST 87-157-R, WEST 87-158-R, WEST 87-159-R, WEST 87-160-R, WEST 87-161-R, WEST 87-163-R, WEST 87-243-R, WEST 87-244-R, WEST 87-245-R, WEST 87-246-R, WEST 87-247-R, WEST 87-248-R, WEST 87-249-R, WEST 87-208, WEST 87-209, WEST 88-25
Decided
January 27, 1989
Presiding judge
John J. Morris
Outcome
Procedural
Precedential status
Reviewed by the Commission
Checked against source
2026-08-17
Official source
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Plain-English summary

This order addressed a group of contest and civil penalty proceedings involving Emery Mining Corporation and Utah Power & Light Company at the Wilberg Mine. After a Commission remand, the judge entered final judgment for Utah Power & Light in the listed cases. The parties agreed that Emery either had not contested the listed citations and orders or had paid the proposed penalties. Judge John J. Morris found that no issue remained before him in those matters and returned them to the Docket Office.

Decision snapshot

  • Cited standards: None stated in this order.
  • Outcome: Final judgment was entered for Utah Power & Light in the listed cases, and the remaining matters were returned to the Docket Office.
  • Key point: A judge may return consolidated matters to the Docket Office when final judgment has resolved one party's claims and the remaining citations were uncontested or paid.

Full text (FMSHRC public release)

CCASE:
EMERY MINING V. SOL (MSHA)
DDATE:
19890130
TTEXT:

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Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission (F.M.S.H.R.C.) Office of Administrative Law Judges

EMERY MINING CORPORATION
AND/OR UTAH POWER & LIGHT
COMPANY,
CONTESTANTS
v.

SECRETARY OF LABOR,
CONTEST PROCEEDINGS
MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH
ADMINISTRATION (MSHA),
Docket No. WEST 87-130-R
RESPONDENT
Citation No. 2844485; 3/24/87

AND
Docket No. WEST 87-131-R
Order No. 2844486; 3/24/87
UNITED MINE WORKERS OF
AMERICA, (UMWA),
Docket No. WEST 87-132-R
INTERVENOR
Order No. 2844488; 3/24/87

Docket No. WEST 87-133-R
Order No. 2844489; 3/24/87

Docket No. WEST 87-134-R
Citation No. 2844490; 3/24/87

Docket No. WEST 87-135-R
Citation No. 2844491; 3/24/87

Docket No. WEST 87-136-R
Citation No. 2844492; 3/24/87

Docket No. WEST 87-137-R
Citation No. 2844493; 3/24/87

Docket No. WEST 87-144-R
Order No. 2844795; 3/24/87

Docket No. WEST 87-145-R
Order No. 2844796; 3/24/87

Docket No. WEST 87-146-R
Order No. 2844798; 3/24/87

Docket No. WEST 87-147-R
Order No. 2844800; 3/24/87

Docket No. WEST 87-150-R
Order No. 2844805; 3/24/87

Docket No. WEST 87-152-R
Order No. 2844807; 3/24/87

Docket No. WEST 87-153-R
Order No. 2844808; 3/24/87

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Docket No. WEST 87-155-R
Citation No. 2844811; 3/24/87

Docket No. WEST 87-156-R
Order No. 2844813; 3/24/87

Docket No. WEST 87-157-R
Order No. 2844815; 3/24/87

Docket No. WEST 87-158-R
Citation No. 2844816; 3/24/87

Docket No. WEST 87-159-R
Citation No. 2844817; 3/24/87

Docket No. WEST 87-160-R
Order No. 2844822; 3/24/87

Docket No. WEST 87-161-R
Order No. 2844823; 3/24/87

Docket No. WEST 87-163-R
Citation No. 2844826; 3/24/87

Docket No. WEST 87-243-R
Citation No. 2844828; 8/13/87

Docket No. WEST 87-244-R
Citation No. 2844830; 8/13/87

Docket No. WEST 87-245-R
Citation No. 2844831; 8/13/87

Docket No. WEST 87-246-R
Citation No. 2844832; 8/13/87

Docket No. WEST 87-247-R
Citation No. 2844833; 8/13/87

Docket No. WEST 87-248-R
Citation No. 2844835; 8/13/87

Docket No. WEST 87-249-R
Citation No. 2844837; 8/13/87

Wilberg Mine
Mine I.D. No. 42-00080

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SECRETARY OF LABOR,
CIVIL PENALTY PROCEEDINGS
MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH
ADMINISTRATION (MSHA),
Docket No. WEST 87-208
PETITIONER
A.C. No. 42-00080-03578

v. Docket No. WEST 87-209
A.C. No. 42-00080-03579
EMERY MINING CORPORATION, AND
ITS SUCCESSOR-IN-INTEREST
Docket No. WEST 88-25
UTAH POWER & LIGHT COMPANY, A.C. No. 42-00080-03584 MINING DIV.,
RESPONDENT
Wilberg Mine

AND

UNITED MINE WORKERS OF
AMERICA (UMWA),
INTERVENOR

ORDER

1. In a order issued on January 27, 1989, the undersigned, in accordance with an order of remand of January 10, 1989, certified as to the issuance of a final order as provided in Rule 54(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

2. Further, an order of final judgment was entered in favor of Utah Power and Light Company ("UP&L") in all cases listed in the caption of this order.

3. In certain of the cases listed in the caption the parties are in agreement1 that Emery Mining Corporation ("Emery") either did not contest the involved citations (orders), or paid the proposed penalty as originally assessed.

These cases are as follows:

WEST 87-134-R
WEST 87-135-R
WEST 87-136-R
WEST 87-137-R
WEST 87-155-R
WEST 87-158-R
WEST 87-159-R
WEST 87-163-R
WEST 87-243-R
WEST 87-244-R
WEST 87-245-R
WEST 87-246-R
WEST 87-247-R
WEST 87-249-R

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4. Inasmuch as a final judgment has been entered as to UP&L in all of the pending cases and inasmuch as Emery either (1) did not contest the citations (orders) or (2) paid the proposed penalty in the cases listed in paragraph 3, there is no issue pending before the presiding judge in these cases and I herewith return said cases to the Docket Office.

John J. Morris
Administrative Law Judge
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FOOTNOTES START HERE

1. Emery's response filed December 27, 1988; Secretary's response filed January 24, 1989.

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