Mining Incidents

Demers Trucking: 51 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Demers Trucking · Surface
Controlled by Lori A Demers
East Harwick, Caledonia County, VT  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 4300692

Demers Trucking has $8K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 3 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 2008
51
citations
11
significant & substantial
$7,764
proposed penalties
$6,472
paid to date
83% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,292 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2008
25
inspections on record
239
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: 239 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Demers Trucking has $8K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 3 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.
$8K
proposed penalties
$6K
current assessed
$6K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
49 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
Of $5K in penalties contested before the Commission, $4K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-06-06.
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.
21.6%
significant & substantial
9.8%
high negligence or reckless
21.6%
reasonably likely or greater
56.9%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 19.6% low, 70.6% moderate, 9.8% 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.
30 citations taken to the federal commission · 59% of citations on record
  • Settled 29 · 97%
  • Vacated or withdrawn 1 · 3%
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 6 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
27%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$5K proposed, $4K 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 2014-12-29.
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 2009-44M Settlement Koutras 2011 $3K → $2K
YORK 2010-136M Settlement Lesnick 2011 $2K → $1K
YORK 2015-0043 Settlement Lesnick 2015 $543 → $343
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: 2018-05-10, 8 years ago
1
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (1)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2018-05-10 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.14 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. Demers Trucking 2008 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 2
2025 2
2024 3
2023 3
2022 2
2021 2
2020 2
2019 2
2018 2
2017 2
2016 2
2015 2
2014 2
2013 2
2012 2
2011 1
2010 1
2009 1
2008 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Demers Trucking sits in Caledonia County, Vermont, 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.
Caledonia County, Vermont · Population 30,425
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$66,075
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 Q1 30 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 96 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 270 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 240 1 0 4166.7
2025 Q1 4 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 175 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 310 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 231 2 0 8658.0
Show 63 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q1 8 2 0 250000.0
2023 Q4 95 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 305 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 270 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 4 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 294 5 2 17006.8
2022 Q2 190 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 0 0 0
2021 Q4 2 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 276 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 260 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 260 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 248 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 128 2 1 15625.0
2019 Q2 108 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 152 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 397 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 350 1 0 2857.1
2018 Q1 8 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 147 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 459 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 370 2 0 5405.4
2017 Q1 0 0 0
2016 Q4 152 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 350 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 360 1 0 2777.8
2016 Q1 0 0 0
2015 Q4 380 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 495 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 415 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 0 0 0
2014 Q4 390 3 1 7692.3
2014 Q3 405 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 310 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 0 0 0
2013 Q4 155 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 275 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 180 3 1 16666.7
2013 Q1 0 0 0
2012 Q4 290 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 400 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 480 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 0 0 0
2011 Q4 285 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 275 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q4 262 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 252 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 206 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 0 0 0
2009 Q4 244 3 3 12295.1
2009 Q3 365 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 101 1 0 9901.0
2009 Q1 0 0 0
2008 Q4 229 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 184 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 233 23 2 98712.4

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.