Mining Incidents

Aggregate Based Products: 70 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Mark W Champagne
Sugarhill, Grafton County, NH  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 2700436

Aggregate Based Products has $13K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2015
Latest incident
Mar 2015
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2009
70
citations
14
significant & substantial
$12,714
proposed penalties
$12,714
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2009
37
inspections on record
508
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: 508 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Imminent-danger orders
A Section 107(a) order removes miners from an area when an inspector finds an imminent danger. Each order is lifted once the condition is corrected, so this counts orders issued, not orders now in effect.
1
Section 107(a) orders
Most recent order: 2017-11-20.
On record since 2017.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.

Aggregate Based Products has $13K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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.
$13K
proposed penalties
$13K
current assessed
$13K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
68 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $100 in penalties contested before the Commission, $100 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-04-15.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
20.3%
significant & substantial
1.4%
high negligence or reckless
20.3%
reasonably likely or greater
58.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 26.1% low, 72.5% moderate, 1.4% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
When citations were contested
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.
1 citations taken to the federal commission · 1% of citations on record
  • Settled 1 · 100%
0%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$100 proposed, $100 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 2010-10-05.
Contested penalties
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 mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
YORK 2011-2M Settlement Lesnick 2011 $100 → $100
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.
Health sampling
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)
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: 2017-11-21, 8 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
5
samples
2
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg3
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz2
Show the individual readings (5)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2017-11-21 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.24 0.85 0.28 Drill Operator, Rotary
2016-08-31 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
2016-08-31 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2011-08-04 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.15 0.73 0.21 Front-end Loader Operator
2011-08-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
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.
Ownership history
  1. Champagne Solutions LLC 2009 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 6
2025 4
2024 6
2023 5
2022 5
2021 5
2020 5
2019 3
2018 3
2017 3
2016 4
2015 4
2014 2
2013 3
2012 2
2011 2
2010 1
2009 3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Aggregate Based Products sits in Grafton County, New Hampshire, where the Census mining category is 0.0% of county employment.

Local economic context
County figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.
Grafton County, New Hampshire · Population 91,759
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$84,021
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
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
2026 Q2 1,964 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 1,248 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 885 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 1,099 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 764 1 0 1308.9
2025 Q1 1,082 1 0 924.2
2024 Q4 1,091 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 982 2 0 2036.7
Show 59 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 1,301 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 698 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 1,044 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 1,081 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 996 4 0 4016.1
2023 Q1 120 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 626 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 992 6 1 6048.4
2022 Q2 1,848 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 498 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 794 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,235 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 1,190 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 288 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 749 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1,531 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 2,067 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 332 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 981 1 0 1019.4
2019 Q2 429 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 48 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 284 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,054 1 1 948.8
2018 Q2 695 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 95 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 476 3 2 6302.5
2017 Q3 1,162 8 3 6884.7
2017 Q2 733 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 607 3 0 4942.3
2016 Q4 1,096 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 1,356 3 1 2212.4
2016 Q2 1,707 1 0 585.8
2016 Q1 442 2 1 4524.9
2015 Q4 998 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1,713 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 1,229 12 5 9764.0
2015 Q1 1,341 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 404 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 1,148 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 0 0 0
2014 Q1 0 0 0
2013 Q4 160 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 1,452 7 0 4820.9
2013 Q2 1,092 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 421 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 816 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 986 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 0 0 0
2011 Q4 256 2 0 7812.5
2011 Q3 887 1 0 1127.4
2011 Q2 636 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 102 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 656 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 62 1 0 16129.0
2010 Q2 400 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 0 0 0
2009 Q4 243 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 1,144 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 782 5 0 6393.9
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2015 · 1 incident

March 17, 2015 NH · Metal/Non-Metal crusher attendant/operator, pan feeder operator/worker SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Champagne Solutions LLC · Fall from machine

EE had replaced a hydraulic cylinder. The cylinder had not been cleared of air. When pin was removed it allowed the hopper door to shift causing the EE to lose his balance and fall to a concrete floor.