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DeCato Sand & Gravel: 36 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Inisfree Investments, LLC · Surface
Loudon, Merrimack County, NH  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2700449

DeCato Sand & Gravel has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $12 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 2011
36
citations
8
significant & substantial
$3,558
proposed penalties
$3,534
paid to date
99% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $24 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2011
14
inspections on record
126
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: 126 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

DeCato Sand & Gravel has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $12 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.
$4K
proposed penalties
$4K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$12
outstanding
32 assessments are final orders; 4 contested dockets.
Of $2K in penalties contested before the Commission, $2K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2016-08-29.
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.
25.0%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
25.0%
reasonably likely or greater
43.8%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 21.9% low, 78.1% moderate, 0.0% 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.
14 citations taken to the federal commission · 39% of citations on record
  • Settled 8 · 57%
  • Stood as issued 6 · 43%
100%
S&S designation survived the contest
ⓘ Counts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.
of 3 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
1%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$2K proposed, $2K 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 2013-02-06.
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 2011-322M Settlement Lesnick 2012 $751 → $751
YORK 2012-319M Default Lesnick 2013 $312 → $312
YORK 2013-95M Default Lesnick 2013 $300 → $300
YORK 2012-300M Settlement Barbour 2013 $212 → $200
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: 2015-05-05, 11 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
4
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg2
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (4)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2015-05-05 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.33 1.39 0.24 Dry Screen Plant Operator
2015-05-05 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
2011-07-27 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
2011-07-27 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.15 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. Inisfree Investments, LLC 2011 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2016 2
2015 2
2014 2
2013 2
2012 2
2011 3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

DeCato Sand & Gravel sits in Merrimack County, New Hampshire, 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.
Merrimack County, New Hampshire · Population 155,018
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$93,944
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
2016 Q3 1,416 11 3 7768.4
2016 Q2 1,113 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 669 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 1,002 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1,082 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 1,048 6 1 5725.2
2015 Q1 881 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 1,108 0 0 0.0
Show 13 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2014 Q3 550 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 563 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 395 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 550 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 466 2 0 4291.8
2013 Q2 541 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 1,221 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 410 3 0 7317.1
2012 Q3 546 6 2 10989.0
2012 Q2 653 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 660 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 968 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 1,210 6 2 4958.7

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.