Mining Incidents

Auburn Asphalt- Litchfield: 18 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Auburn Asphalt, LLC · Surface
Litchfield, Kennebec County, ME  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1701032

Auburn Asphalt- Litchfield has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $468 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 2021
18
citations
1
significant & substantial
$2,669
proposed penalties
$2,201
paid to date
82% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $468 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2020
11
inspections on record
111
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: 111 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Auburn Asphalt- Litchfield has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $468 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.
$3K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$468
outstanding
18 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-06-02.
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.
5.6%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
5.6%
reasonably likely or greater
38.9%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 38.9% low, 61.1% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, 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: 2026-08-21
2
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg2
Show the individual readings (2)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2026-08-21 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2022-11-16 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader 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. Midland Land Devlopment, LLC 2020 to 2025
  2. Auburn Asphalt, LLC 2025 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 1
2025 1
2024 1
2023 4
2022 3
2021 2
2020 3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Auburn Asphalt- Litchfield sits in Kennebec County, Maine, 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.
Kennebec County, Maine · Population 125,614
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$65,062
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 645 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 135 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 515 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 480 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 569 3 0 5272.4
2025 Q1 0 0 0
2024 Q4 583 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 557 0 0 0.0
Show 17 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 0 0 0
2024 Q1 686 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 603 5 0 8291.9
2023 Q3 620 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 603 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 100 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 581 6 1 10327.0
2022 Q3 624 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 606 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 456 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 624 4 0 6410.3
2021 Q3 624 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 624 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 24 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 41 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 35 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 22 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.