Mining Incidents

CHESTER PLANT Metal/Non-Metal

E. TETZ & SONS LLC · Surface
Controlled by Peckham Industries Inc
Chester, Orange County, NY  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3000800

CHESTER PLANT has $5K 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
39
citations
10
significant & substantial
$5,430
proposed penalties
$5,430
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
221
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: 221 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

CHESTER PLANT has $5K 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.
$5K
proposed penalties
$5K
current assessed
$5K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
39 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-12-30.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
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
2025 Q4 1,161 3 0 2584.0
2025 Q3 1,750 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 1,878 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 2,467 2 1 810.7
2024 Q4 2,706 1 0 369.5
2024 Q3 3,066 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 2,340 5 1 2136.8
2024 Q1 2,260 0 0 0.0
Show 36 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 3,347 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 3,560 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 3,767 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 3,808 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 4,377 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 4,709 3 1 637.1
2022 Q2 3,475 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 3,463 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 3,732 4 1 1071.8
2021 Q3 3,464 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 3,659 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 3,425 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 4,468 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 4,232 2 1 472.6
2020 Q2 3,924 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 4,505 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 4,634 1 1 215.8
2019 Q3 4,917 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 4,456 2 2 448.8
2019 Q1 3,294 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 4,630 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 4,130 7 2 1694.9
2018 Q2 2,183 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 2,893 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 2,839 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 2,676 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 2,425 4 0 1649.5
2017 Q1 3,321 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 3,416 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 3,267 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 3,138 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 2,444 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 3,425 4 0 1167.9
2015 Q3 3,683 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 3,165 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 988 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.

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