Mining Incidents

ALTON PIT: 9 MSHA citations 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
13
inspections on record
112
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: 112 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.
Violation severity profile
Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
11.1%
significant & substantial
33.3%
high negligence or reckless
11.1%
reasonably likely or greater
33.3%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 66.7% moderate, 33.3% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. GREEN OAK REALTY DEVELOPMENT LLC 2015 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 2
2025 2
2024 2
2023 1
2022 1
2021 2
2020 2
2019 4
2018 3
2017 2
2016 2
2015 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

ALTON PIT sits in Belknap County, New Hampshire, where the Census mining category is 0.1% 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.
Belknap County, New Hampshire · Population 64,300
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$87,983
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 505 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 241 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 513 1 0 1949.3
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
Show 35 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
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.