Mining Incidents

Cook's Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Chris Acker
Bristol, Addison County, VT  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4300707

Cook's Pit has $7K 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 2009
35
citations
10
significant & substantial
$6,656
proposed penalties
$6,656
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2009
23
inspections on record
213
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: 213 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Cook's Pit has $7K 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.
$7K
proposed penalties
$7K
current assessed
$7K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
35 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2022-03-30.
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
2024 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 592 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 0 0 0
2023 Q1 468 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 1,389 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,446 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,457 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 760 3 0 3947.4
Show 35 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2021 Q4 983 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 627 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 1,268 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 253 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 1,005 4 2 3980.1
2020 Q3 1,426 2 0 1402.5
2020 Q2 1,040 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 140 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 1 1 0 1000000.0
2019 Q3 1,010 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 1,145 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 112 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 675 5 1 7407.4
2018 Q2 901 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 241 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 504 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 903 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 975 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 186 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 1,434 3 2 2092.1
2016 Q3 1,335 1 0 749.1
2016 Q2 1,125 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 0 0 0
2015 Q4 1,178 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1,190 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 1,157 1 0 864.3
2011 Q3 334 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 183 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q4 491 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 489 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 448 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 0 0 0
2009 Q4 503 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 680 4 3 5882.4

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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A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.