Brad Aitken + Sons Trucking + Earthwork: 13 MSHA citations
Metal/Non-Metal
Brad Aitken + Sons Trucking + Earthwork has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $2K outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 1
- Years on record
- 2020
- Latest incident
- Sep 2020
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2020
2
significant & substantial
$1,827
proposed penalties
7% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,702 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2020
n/a
citations per 100 inspection hours
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This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
Rate withheld: 57 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Brad Aitken + Sons Trucking + Earthwork has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $2K outstanding across 0 contested dockets.
Penalty disposition
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Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
13 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2021-07-01.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
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Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
15.4%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
15.4%
reasonably likely or greater
30.8%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 69.2% low, 30.8% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
| Year |
Employees |
| 2021 |
2 |
| 2020 |
2 |
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Brad Aitken + Sons Trucking + Earthwork sits in Waldo County, Maine, where the Census mining category is 0.1% of county employment.
Local economic context
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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.
Waldo County, Maine · Population 40,006
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$68,441
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
Quarterly safety rates
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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 |
| 2021 Q2 |
350 |
0 |
0 |
0.0 |
| 2021 Q1 |
250 |
0 |
0 |
0.0 |
| 2020 Q4 |
80 |
0 |
0 |
0.0 |
| 2020 Q3 |
900 |
12 |
2 |
13333.3 |
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
1 on file
2020 · 1 incident
September 22, 2020
ME · Metal/Non-Metal
mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner
MACHINERY
Operator of Doosan excavator was on a slope moving boulder which gave way causing excavator to drop approx 4'. Operator was wearing seat belt, which actually contributed to the injury per the Dr. Operator received L1 back injury. Bed rest and brace until healed.