Mining Incidents

E & C Townes Gravel Pit: 11 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Richard E Townes
WEARE, Hillsborough County, NH  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2700353

E & C Townes Gravel Pit has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA. MSHA has proposed $660 in penalties since 2000.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
—
Latest incident
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Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
11
citations
1
significant & substantial
$660
proposed penalties
$660
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date. The remaining $0 was reduced, settled, contested or is still owed.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
9
inspections on record
87
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: 87 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

E & C Townes Gravel Pit has $660 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.
$660
proposed penalties
$660
current assessed
$660
paid to date
$0
outstanding
11 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2003-07-10.
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.
9.1%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
9.1%
reasonably likely or greater
63.6%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 45.5% low, 54.5% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. Townes Excavating Corp 2000 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2005 1
2004 3
2003 2
2002 3
2001 3
2000 3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly; years before 2000 come from MSHA's archived Part 50 employment files.

E & C Townes Gravel Pit sits in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, where the Census mining category is 0.0% 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.
Hillsborough County, New Hampshire · Population 424,732
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$100,436
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; earlier incidents are counted but not rate-adjusted, though reported hours reach back to 1983. 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
2005 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 42 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 11 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 83 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 12 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 101 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 84 4 0 47619.0
Show 13 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2003 Q2 62 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 0 0 0
2002 Q4 25 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 70 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 60 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 7 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 32 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 22 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 7 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 3 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 12 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 60 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 40 7 1 175000.0

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.