Mining Incidents

Cossitt Sand Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Lance Kenyon; Bill Smith
Earlville, NY, Madison County, NY  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 3001370

Cossitt Sand Pit has $50K in proposed MSHA penalties and $14K outstanding across 4 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 2010
144
citations
41
significant & substantial
$49,765
proposed penalties
$31,257
paid to date
63% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $18,508 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
40
inspections on record
522
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: 522 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Cossitt Sand Pit has $50K in proposed MSHA penalties and $14K outstanding across 4 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.
$50K
proposed penalties
$46K
current assessed
$31K
paid to date
$14K
outstanding
143 assessments are final orders; 4 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-06-23.
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 2 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 80 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 80 1 0 12500.0
2024 Q4 160 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 160 1 0 6250.0
2022 Q4 440 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 576 2 0 3472.2
2022 Q2 768 0 0 0.0
Show 47 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2021 Q4 570 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 890 1 0 1123.6
2021 Q2 900 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 520 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 485 6 0 12371.1
2020 Q2 450 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 450 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 960 1 0 1041.7
2019 Q2 560 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 450 14 3 31111.1
2018 Q3 930 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 457 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 600 20 5 33333.3
2017 Q3 480 1 0 2083.3
2017 Q2 480 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 885 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 960 8 0 8333.3
2016 Q1 0 0 0
2015 Q4 400 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 960 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 320 39 21 121875.0
2014 Q4 640 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 960 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 640 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 640 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 960 10 3 10416.7
2013 Q2 820 4 0 4878.0
2012 Q4 256 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 768 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 768 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 208 6 2 28846.2
2011 Q3 960 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 960 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q4 320 15 7 46875.0
2010 Q3 1,280 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 256 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 0 0 0
2002 Q1 0 0 0
2001 Q4 0 0 0
2001 Q3 0 0 0
2001 Q2 0 0 0
2001 Q1 0 0 0
2000 Q4 0 0 0
2000 Q3 0 0 0
2000 Q2 0 0 0
2000 Q1 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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The full compliance file on Cossitt Sand Pit

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.