Mining Incidents

Clayville Pit: 36 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Walter Reynolds General Contractor Inc · Surface
Controlled by Philip Reynolds
COVENTRY, Kent County, RI  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3700193

Clayville Pit has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $26 outstanding across 1 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 2000
36
citations
1
significant & substantial
$4,130
proposed penalties
$3,364
paid to date
81% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $766 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
33
inspections on record
303
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: 303 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Clayville Pit has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $26 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.
$4K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$26
outstanding
34 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $875 in penalties contested before the Commission, $135 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2021-04-01.
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.
2.9%
significant & substantial
8.8%
high negligence or reckless
5.9%
reasonably likely or greater
41.2%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 14.7% low, 76.5% moderate, 8.8% 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 · 3% of citations on record
  • Settled 1 · 100%
85%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$875 proposed, $135 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 2006-09-14.
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 2007-5M Settlement Lesnick 2007 $875 → $135
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: 2000-12-14, 25 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
1
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (1)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2000-12-14 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.16 1.36 0.12 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. Walter Reynolds General Contractor Inc 2000 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2021 2
2020 3
2019 3
2018 3
2017 2
2016 2
2015 2
2014 2
2013 3
2012 2
2011 2
2010 1
2009 2
2008 2
2007 2
2006 2
2005 2
2004 2
2003 2
2002 1
2001 1
2000 1
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Clayville Pit sits in Kent County, Rhode Island, 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.
Kent County, Rhode Island · Population 170,658
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$91,278
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
2021 Q3 105 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 153 1 0 6535.9
2021 Q1 113 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 153 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 233 1 0 4291.8
2020 Q2 297 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 113 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 273 0 0 0.0
Show 75 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2019 Q3 257 2 0 7782.1
2019 Q2 345 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 217 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 145 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 145 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 207 3 0 14492.8
2018 Q1 289 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 137 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 233 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 161 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 145 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 217 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 233 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 177 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 241 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 137 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 379 2 0 5277.0
2015 Q2 313 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 241 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 157 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 451 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 371 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 311 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 431 2 0 4640.4
2013 Q3 551 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 281 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 301 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 441 4 0 9070.3
2012 Q3 521 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 261 2 0 7662.8
2012 Q1 321 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 281 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 401 3 0 7481.3
2011 Q1 300 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 332 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 125 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 66 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 20 1 0 50000.0
2009 Q4 130 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 260 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 552 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 605 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 580 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 20 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 12 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 570 1 0 1754.4
2007 Q4 560 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 580 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 568 3 0 5281.7
2007 Q1 480 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 575 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 810 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 820 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 800 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 820 3 1 3658.5
2005 Q3 800 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 240 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 1,040 2 0 1923.1
2004 Q4 738 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 715 2 0 2797.2
2004 Q2 760 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 520 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 520 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 536 1 0 1865.7
2003 Q2 568 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 544 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 546 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 520 2 0 3846.2
2002 Q2 520 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 125 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 360 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 525 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 512 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 315 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 120 1 0 8333.3

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.