Mining Incidents

Bass Harbor Portable Plant: 49 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Doug Gott & Sons, Inc. · Surface
Controlled by Timothy H Gott
Bass Harbor, Hancock County, ME  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1700927

Bass Harbor Portable Plant has $10K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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 2014
49
citations
17
significant & substantial
$10,013
proposed penalties
$10,013
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2014
21
inspections on record
304
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: 304 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Bass Harbor Portable Plant has $10K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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.
$10K
proposed penalties
$10K
current assessed
$10K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
49 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-03-11.
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.
34.7%
significant & substantial
2.0%
high negligence or reckless
34.7%
reasonably likely or greater
61.2%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 14.3% low, 83.7% moderate, 2.0% 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: 2021-03-16, 5 years ago
67%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
7
samples
3
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz42 over
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg2
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (7)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2019-04-17 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.79 0.73 1.08 Crusher Oper/Worker
2014-04-24 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 1.27 0.55 2.31 Belt Cleaner
2021-03-16 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2019-04-17 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.28 Front-end Loader Operator
2015-01-29 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2015-01-29 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.29 0.69 0.42 Belt Cleaner
2014-04-24 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.51 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. Doug Gott & Sons, Inc. 2014 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 4
2025 3
2024 3
2023 3
2022 3
2021 3
2020 4
2019 4
2018 4
2017 3
2016 2
2015 3
2014 3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Bass Harbor Portable Plant sits in Hancock County, Maine, 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.
Hancock County, Maine · Population 56,084
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$69,630
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 365 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 1,130 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 273 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 139 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 639 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 419 3 1 7159.9
2024 Q4 276 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 144 0 0 0.0
Show 41 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 405 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 1,623 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 499 3 0 6012.0
2023 Q3 186 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 981 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 978 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 713 1 0 1402.5
2022 Q3 46 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 13 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 391 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 886 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 446 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 76 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 898 3 1 3340.8
2020 Q4 808 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 457 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 30 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 1,744 6 2 3440.4
2019 Q4 539 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 808 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 298 1 1 3355.7
2019 Q1 1,608 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 496 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 363 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 478 4 1 8368.2
2018 Q1 2,496 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 545 1 0 1834.9
2017 Q3 0 0 0
2017 Q2 306 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 2,200 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 0 4 2
2016 Q3 6 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 436 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 1,005 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 411 2 1 4866.2
2015 Q3 132 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 17 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 1,336 5 1 3742.5
2014 Q4 185 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 374 16 7 42780.7

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.