Mining Incidents

Acton Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Acton, York County, ME  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1700865

Acton Pit has $24K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 4 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2010
102
citations
22
significant & substantial
$23,584
proposed penalties
$19,770
paid to date
84% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $3,814 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2010
24
inspections on record
385
inspection hours
n/a
citations per 100 inspection hours
This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
Rate withheld: 385 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Acton Pit has $24K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 4 contested dockets.

Penalty disposition
Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
$24K
proposed penalties
$20K
current assessed
$20K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
99 assessments are final orders; 4 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2023-10-24.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Quarterly safety rates
Citations per million reported employee-hours. Rates begin in 2000, when MSHA's quarterly employment data starts; earlier incidents are counted but cannot be rate-adjusted. Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q1 381 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 921 2 0 2171.6
2023 Q2 581 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 81 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 901 15 3 16648.2
2022 Q2 1,219 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 3 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 710 0 0 0.0
Show 44 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2021 Q3 1,010 3 1 2970.3
2021 Q2 946 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1,267 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 1,582 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1,013 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 1,076 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 84 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 439 10 4 22779.0
2019 Q3 1,067 4 0 3748.8
2019 Q2 995 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 444 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 859 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 990 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 3 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 1,306 3 0 2297.1
2017 Q3 779 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 515 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 486 1 0 2057.6
2016 Q3 611 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 465 2 0 4301.1
2016 Q1 0 0 0
2015 Q4 556 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 529 1 0 1890.4
2015 Q2 420 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 0 0 0
2014 Q4 296 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 584 3 1 5137.0
2014 Q2 514 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 0 0 0
2013 Q4 416 13 1 31250.0
2013 Q3 618 3 0 4854.4
2013 Q2 467 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 306 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 550 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 498 8 2 16064.3
2012 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 385 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 1,058 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 501 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 157 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 953 27 10 28331.6

No reportable incidents on file.

MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents for this mine in the current dataset. New reports appear here within a week of being filed.

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The full compliance file on Acton Pit

A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.