Mining Incidents

Crooker Mine: 10 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Coromoto Minerals LLC · Underground
Controlled by Gary M Freeman
Rumford Pt, Oxford County, ME  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 1701048

Crooker Mine has $1K 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 2021
10
citations
2
significant & substantial
$1,218
proposed penalties
$1,218
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2021
14
inspections on record
344
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: 344 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Crooker Mine has $1K 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.
$1K
proposed penalties
$1K
current assessed
$1K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
9 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-06-04.
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.
20.0%
significant & substantial
10.0%
high negligence or reckless
20.0%
reasonably likely or greater
40.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 20.0% low, 70.0% moderate, 10.0% 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: 2026-06-12
14%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
12
samples
7
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Diesel particulate (total carbon)71 over
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg4
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (33)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2022-08-09 TC @ 160 240 160 1.50 Backhoe Operator
2026-06-12 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2026-06-11 ORGANIC CARBON 95 Drill Oper., Jackleg/Stoper
2026-06-11 TC @ 160 104 160 0.65 Drill Oper., Jackleg/Stoper
2026-06-11 EC @ 160 0 160 0.00 Drill Oper., Jackleg/Stoper
2026-06-11 TC from EC @ 160 0 160 0.00 Drill Oper., Jackleg/Stoper
2025-08-05 ORGANIC CARBON 0 Bobcat Operator
2025-08-05 TC @ 160 0 160 0.00 Bobcat Operator
2025-08-05 EC @ 160 0 160 0.00 Bobcat Operator
2025-08-05 TC from EC @ 160 0 160 0.00 Bobcat Operator
2025-05-29 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2024-10-04 TC @ 160 63 160 0.39 Utility Man
2024-10-04 ORGANIC CARBON 0 Utility Man
2024-10-04 TC from EC @ 160 0 160 0.00 Utility Man
2024-10-04 EC @ 160 54 160 0.34 Utility Man
2024-06-05 TC @ 160 116 160 0.73 Utility Man
2024-06-05 TC from EC @ 160 0 160 0.00 Utility Man
2024-06-05 EC @ 160 40 160 0.25 Utility Man
2024-06-05 ORGANIC CARBON 76 Utility Man
2024-06-05 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2023-10-24 ORGANIC CARBON 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2023-10-24 TC @ 160 0 160 0.00 Front-end Loader Operator
2023-10-24 EC @ 160 0 160 0.00 Front-end Loader Operator
2023-10-24 TC from EC @ 160 0 160 0.00 Front-end Loader Operator
2023-06-14 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2023-06-07 EC @ 160 0 160 0.00 Utility Man
2023-06-07 ORGANIC CARBON 0 Utility Man
2023-06-07 TC @ 160 0 160 0.00 Utility Man
2023-06-07 TC from EC @ 160 0 160 0.00 Utility Man
2022-08-09 TC from EC @ 160 0 160 0.00 Backhoe Operator
2022-08-09 ORGANIC CARBON 133 Backhoe Operator
2022-08-09 EC @ 160 107 160 0.67 Backhoe Operator
2021-11-04 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.27 Drill Oper., Jackleg/Stoper

Area samples (mill and shop air)

Last sampled: 2026-06-11
8
samples
Show the individual readings (16)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Area sampled
2026-06-11 TC @ 160 0 UG TRAVEL/HAULAGE
2026-06-11 EC @ 160 0 UG TRAVEL/HAULAGE
2025-08-05 TC @ 160 0 UG TRAVEL/HAULAGE
2025-08-05 EC @ 160 0 UG TRAVEL/HAULAGE
2024-10-04 EC @ 160 0 UG ACTIVE MINING
2024-10-04 TC @ 160 0 UG ACTIVE MINING
2024-06-05 EC @ 160 0 UG ACTIVE MINING
2024-06-05 TC @ 160 0 UG ACTIVE MINING
2023-10-24 TC @ 160 0 UG ACTIVE MINING
2023-10-24 EC @ 160 0 UG ACTIVE MINING
2023-10-24 TC @ 160 0 UG ACTIVE MINING
2023-10-24 EC @ 160 0 UG ACTIVE MINING
2023-06-07 TC @ 160 0 UG ACTIVE MINING
2023-06-07 EC @ 160 0 UG ACTIVE MINING
2022-08-09 EC @ 160 0 UG ACTIVE MINING
2022-08-09 TC @ 160 43 UG ACTIVE MINING
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. Coromoto Minerals LLC 2021 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 4
2025 4
2024 3
2023 3
2022 3
2021 4
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Crooker Mine sits in Oxford County, Maine, 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.
Oxford County, Maine · Population 58,728
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$57,933
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 483 1 1 2070.4
2025 Q4 416 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 820 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 585 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 441 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 773 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 585 1 0 1709.4
2024 Q1 0 0 0
Show 9 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 407 1 0 2457.0
2023 Q3 509 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 280 1 0 3571.4
2023 Q1 0 0 0
2022 Q4 459 1 0 2178.6
2022 Q3 836 1 0 1196.2
2022 Q2 592 1 1 1689.2
2022 Q1 0 0 0
2021 Q4 541 3 0 5545.3

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.