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BOURNE PIT: 130 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by S M Lorusso & Sons Inc
Bourne, Barnstable County, MA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1901058

BOURNE PIT has $29K 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
7
Years on record
2003–2017
Latest incident
Nov 2017
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
130
citations
28
significant & substantial
$29,299
proposed penalties
$28,078
paid to date
96% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,221 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Cape Cod Aggregates Corp's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
57
inspections on record
936
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: 936 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: 2013-03-13.
On record since 2013.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.

BOURNE PIT has $29K 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.
$29K
proposed penalties
$28K
current assessed
$28K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
128 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $2K in penalties contested before the Commission, $309 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2020-09-02.
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.
21.9%
significant & substantial
4.7%
high negligence or reckless
21.9%
reasonably likely or greater
65.6%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 15.6% low, 79.7% moderate, 4.7% 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%
S&S designation survived the contest
ⓘ Counts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.
of 1 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
80%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$2K proposed, $309 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 2012-05-21.
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 2012-176M Settlement Lesnick 2013 $2K → $309
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: 2019-01-24, 7 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
21
samples
6
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg13
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz4
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz2
  • Aluminum oxide fumes1
Show the individual readings (35)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2019-01-24 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2019-01-24 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2019-01-24 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bulldozer Operator
2015-04-08 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2015-04-08 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Shovel Operator
2009-02-11 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.13 0.45 0.29 Utility Man
2009-02-11 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.2 0.46 0.43 Crusher Oper/Worker
2009-02-11 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2009-02-11 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bulldozer Operator
2009-02-11 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
2003-05-14 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.4 Front-end Loader Operator
2003-05-14 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2003-05-14 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
2002-11-20 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2002-11-20 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.21 0.45 0.47 Crusher Oper/Worker
2002-11-20 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.15 Truck Driver
2002-04-30 Vanadium fumes 0 50 0.00 Welder, etc.
2002-04-30 Aluminum oxide fumes 0.05 20 0.00 Welder, etc.
2002-04-30 Arsenic fumes 0 1500 0.00 Welder, etc.
2002-04-30 Beryllium fumes 0 6 0.00 Welder, etc.
2002-04-30 Cadmium oxide fumes 1.96 100 0.02 Welder, etc.
2002-04-30 Chromium, insoluble 0 3 0.00 Welder, etc.
2002-04-30 Cobalt fumes 0 300 0.00 Welder, etc.
2002-04-30 Copper fumes 0 300 0.00 Welder, etc.
2002-04-30 Iron oxide fumes 0.76 20 0.04 Welder, etc.
2002-04-30 Lead fumes 11.76 450 0.03 Welder, etc.
2002-04-30 Magnesium oxide fumes 0 20 0.00 Welder, etc.
2002-04-30 Manganese fumes 0.04 5 0.01 Welder, etc.
2002-04-30 Molybdenum fumes 0 20 0.00 Welder, etc.
2002-04-30 Nickel fumes 0 3 0.00 Welder, etc.
2002-04-30 Titanium dioxide fumes 0.01 20 0.00 Welder, etc.
2002-04-30 Zinc oxide fumes 0.02 10 0.00 Welder, etc.
2001-05-16 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.6 2.61 0.23 Front-end Loader Operator
2001-05-16 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2001-05-16 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.

BOURNE PIT recorded 18.47 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2006.

Injury rate, 2006
ⓘ This rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
18.47
total case rate
18.47
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 3.41 and the all-US-mining average was 3.91 cases per 100 workers.
In Massachusetts, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.98 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2006 * 18.47 18.47 0.000
2005 * 8.03 8.03 0.000
2004 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2003 * 7.29 0.00 0.000
2002 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2001 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Ownership history
  1. Cape Cod Aggregates Corp 1998 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2020 2
2019 7
2018 8
2017 8
2016 8
2015 8
2014 7
2013 9
2012 7
2011 7
2010 7
2009 8
2008 7
2007 8
2006 9
2005 12
2004 12
2003 13
2002 11
2001 10
2000 6
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

BOURNE PIT sits in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, 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.
Barnstable County, Massachusetts · Population 230,073
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$94,452
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
2020 Q3 4 1 0 250000.0
2020 Q2 12 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 930 2 2 2150.5
2019 Q4 1,952 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 3,575 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 4,535 5 2 1102.5
2019 Q1 3,609 3 1 831.3
2018 Q4 4,255 0 0 0.0
Show 75 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2018 Q3 3,708 5 2 1348.4
2018 Q2 2,731 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 3,234 6 2 1855.3
2017 Q4 5,227 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 5,246 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 4,826 4 1 828.8
2017 Q1 2,343 5 1 2134.0
2016 Q4 3,911 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 4,469 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 5,204 11 0 2113.8
2016 Q1 3,907 5 2 1279.8
2015 Q4 5,144 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 5,333 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 4,756 2 0 420.5
2015 Q1 3,683 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 3,774 1 0 265.0
2014 Q3 3,585 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 4,862 1 0 205.7
2014 Q1 3,959 4 1 1010.4
2013 Q4 5,147 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 4,910 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 5,347 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 3,352 7 3 2088.3
2012 Q4 3,748 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 4,558 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 3,810 3 0 787.4
2012 Q1 3,715 3 0 807.5
2011 Q4 4,448 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 3,963 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 2,714 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 3,146 8 3 2542.9
2010 Q4 5,219 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 3,429 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 2,972 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 1,592 4 1 2512.6
2009 Q4 6,085 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 4,466 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 4,760 2 1 420.2
2009 Q1 2,856 9 1 3151.3
2008 Q4 3,374 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 5,117 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 3,641 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 3,481 4 0 1149.1
2007 Q4 4,689 2 0 426.5
2007 Q3 5,604 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 4,386 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 5,313 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 5,464 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 5,728 3 0 523.7
2006 Q2 5,414 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 5,053 1 0 197.9
2005 Q4 5,415 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 6,434 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 6,375 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 6,698 2 0 298.6
2004 Q4 5,749 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 6,648 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 6,725 5 2 743.5
2004 Q1 6,088 3 0 492.8
2003 Q4 7,456 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 6,921 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 6,414 1 0 155.9
2003 Q1 6,638 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 6,167 1 0 162.2
2002 Q3 6,039 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 6,342 3 1 473.0
2002 Q1 5,999 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 5,389 4 1 742.3
2001 Q3 5,309 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 5,567 2 1 359.3
2001 Q1 4,902 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 3,206 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 3,503 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 3,558 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 1,968 3 0 1524.4
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

7 on file

2017 · 1 incident

2015 · 2 incidents

September 18, 2015 MA · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Cape Cod Aggregates Corp · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Loader operator was climbing into his machine and he felt a tear in his right calf. He went to the doctor's on Saturday, 9/19/2015 and it was determined that he ruptured his right calf muscle.

September 16, 2015 MA · Metal/Non-Metal superintendent HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cape Cod Aggregates Corp · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was lifting himself into the crane and hurt his left shoulder. Doctor believes that it is just inflamed/strained. Employee has been prescribed six weeks of physical therapy. He was told he can return to work on Monday, 9/21/2015.

2006 · 2 incidents

November 17, 2006 MA · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Cape Cod Aggregates Corp · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Employee was on the sand screw putting on rubber, it was lightly raining. EE slipped & hit his face & then landed on his right knee & hand. He broke 2 bones in his hand.

February 13, 2006 MA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Cape Cod Aggregates Corp · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Employee had come down off the plant and onto the ground when he slipped on ice and fell onto his back. He got up and thought he was fine until he woke up the next morning and his back was sore.

2005 · 1 incident

March 9, 2005 MA · Metal/Non-Metal clerk, timekeeper, office worker, director of sales HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cape Cod Aggregates Corp · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE SLID OPEN THE WINDOW OF THE OFFICE TRAILER. THE PRESSURE OF EE PALM AGAINST THE GLASS CAUSED THE WINDOW TO SHATTER. EE ARM WAS CUT AND EE DROVE SELF TO THE HOSPITAL, EE WAS GIVEN A TETNUS SHOT AND XRAYS WERE TAKEN, EE ARM WAS BANDAGED AND CLEARED TO RETURN TO WORK NEXT DAY. AS OF 03/11/05, EE HAS NOT RETURNED TO WORK, GOING TO HOSPITAL, EE IN PAIN, POSSIBLE INFECTION

2003 · 1 incident

November 28, 2003 MA · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cape Cod Aggregates Corp · Struck against stationary object

EE LACERATED HIS LEFT HAND CHANGING STEEL IN CRUSHER. HE WAS WEARING GLOVES BUT THE DUST RING WAS SO SHARP IT CUT RIGHT THROUGH HIS GLOVE. HE WAS TREATED STITCHES AND CLEARED TO RETURN TO WORK .