Mining Incidents

ALTON PIT Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Keith A Babb
Alton, Belknap County, NH  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 2700489

ALTON PIT has $1K in proposed MSHA penalties and $756 outstanding across 0 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 2016
9
citations
1
significant & substantial
$1,483
proposed penalties
$727
paid to date
49% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $756 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2016
12
inspections on record
96
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: 96 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

ALTON PIT has $1K in proposed MSHA penalties and $756 outstanding across 0 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.
$1K
proposed penalties
$1K
current assessed
$727
paid to date
$756
outstanding
9 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-09-29.
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
2025 Q3 513 2 1 3898.6
2025 Q2 513 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 129 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 481 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 513 4 0 7797.3
2024 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
Show 32 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1 1 0 1000000.0
2022 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 481 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 513 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 457 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 529 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 721 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 417 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 385 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 599 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 901 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 802 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 1,161 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 500 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 513 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 148 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 473 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 505 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 513 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 73 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 505 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 521 2 0 3838.8
2016 Q2 513 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 187 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 369 0 0 0.0

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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