Mining Incidents

C27: 13 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

East Thetford, Washington County, VT  ·  Temporarily Idled
MSHA Mine ID: 4300765

C27 has $2K 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 2016
13
citations
3
significant & substantial
$1,810
proposed penalties
$1,810
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2016
11
inspections on record
88
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: 88 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

C27 has $2K 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.
$2K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
13 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2023-08-31.
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.
23.1%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
23.1%
reasonably likely or greater
61.5%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 46.2% low, 53.8% 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: 2016-06-15, 10 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
2
samples
2
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz1
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (2)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2016-06-15 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.31 10 0.03 Front-end Loader Operator
2016-06-15 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.17 1.13 0.15 Crusher Oper/Worker
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. McCullough Crushing Inc 2015 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 0
2025 0
2024 2
2023 1
2022 0
2021 1
2020 1
2019 1
2018 2
2017 2
2016 1
2015 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

C27 sits in Washington County, Vermont, 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.
Washington County, Vermont · Population 59,958
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$79,853
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 0 0 0
2026 Q1 0 0 0
2025 Q4 0 0 0
2025 Q3 0 0 0
2025 Q2 0 0 0
2024 Q4 576 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 0 0 0
2023 Q3 961 3 0 3121.7
Show 33 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q2 225 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 0 1 0
2022 Q4 88 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 0 0 0
2022 Q2 0 0 0
2022 Q1 0 0 0
2021 Q4 512 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 378 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 1,156 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 0 0 0
2020 Q4 825 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1,312 1 1 762.2
2020 Q2 213 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 0 0 0
2019 Q4 162 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 0 0 0
2019 Q2 121 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 0 0 0
2018 Q4 317 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 840 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 1,014 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 0 0 0
2017 Q4 971 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 959 1 0 1042.8
2017 Q2 396 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 0 0 0
2016 Q4 0 0 0
2016 Q3 41 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 921 3 2 3257.3
2016 Q1 0 0 0
2015 Q4 324 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 922 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 412 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.