Mining Incidents

Erin Portable Power Crusher: 22 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Wardwell Construction & Trucking Corp. · Surface
Controlled by Robert B Wardwell
Bucksport, Waldo County, ME  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1700764

Erin Portable Power Crusher has $3K 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 2004
22
citations
3
significant & substantial
$2,581
proposed penalties
$2,581
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2004
28
inspections on record
213
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: 213 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Erin Portable Power Crusher has $3K 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.
$3K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
22 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2023-11-21.
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.
13.6%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
13.6%
reasonably likely or greater
31.8%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 18.2% low, 81.8% moderate, 0.0% 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: 2025-04-30
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
2
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (2)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2025-04-30 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2005-06-28 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.22 0.56 0.39 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. Wardwell Construction & Trucking Corp. 2004 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2024 2
2023 2
2022 2
2021 1
2020 1
2019 3
2018 3
2017 3
2016 2
2015 3
2014 3
2013 2
2012 1
2011 1
2010 1
2009 2
2008 2
2007 2
2006 2
2005 1
2004 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Erin Portable Power Crusher sits in Waldo 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.
Waldo County, Maine · Population 40,006
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$68,441
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
2024 Q2 158 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 54 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 232 5 1 21551.7
2023 Q3 3 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 24 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 45 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 25 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 10 0 0 0.0
Show 69 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2022 Q2 32 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 0 0 0
2021 Q1 9 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 24 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 14 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 0 0 0
2019 Q4 27 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 17 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 55 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 7 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 7 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 25 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 4 2 0 500000.0
2018 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 38 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 16 2 0 125000.0
2017 Q2 34 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 15 4 1 266666.7
2016 Q3 0 0 0
2016 Q2 0 0 0
2016 Q1 161 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 64 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 13 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 73 2 0 27397.3
2015 Q1 16 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 25 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 3 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 23 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 65 1 1 15384.6
2013 Q3 21 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 0 0 0
2013 Q1 0 0 0
2012 Q4 0 0 0
2012 Q3 0 0 0
2012 Q2 16 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 32 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 32 2 0 62500.0
2011 Q3 0 0 0
2011 Q2 0 0 0
2011 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q4 18 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 21 1 0 47619.0
2010 Q2 216 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 18 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 430 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 403 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 329 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 38 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 197 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 662 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 550 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 63 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 284 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 490 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 484 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 80 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 414 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 446 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 305 1 0 3278.7
2006 Q1 0 0 0
2005 Q4 160 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 228 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 0 0 0
2004 Q4 526 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 827 2 0 2418.4
2004 Q2 475 0 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.