Mining Incidents

FINTEC PORTABLE T-295: 25 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Dan Clemente
West Sand Lake, Rensselaer County, NY  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 3002914

FINTEC PORTABLE T-295 has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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 2000
25
citations
5
significant & substantial
$3,162
proposed penalties
$2,946
paid to date
93% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $216 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
21
inspections on record
172
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: 172 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

FINTEC PORTABLE T-295 has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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
25 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $349 in penalties contested before the Commission, $133 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-10-28.
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
4.0%
high negligence or reckless
20.0%
reasonably likely or greater
36.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 32.0% low, 64.0% moderate, 4.0% 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.
1 citations taken to the federal commission · 4% of citations on record
  • Settled 1 · 100%
0%
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 1 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
62%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$349 proposed, $133 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 2022-10-19.
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 2023-0006 Settlement Young 2024 $349 → $133
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: 2024-10-29
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
3
samples
3
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz3
Show the individual readings (3)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2024-10-29 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.25 0.96 0.26 Dry Screen Plant Operator
2002-04-17 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.43 0.48 0.90 Truck Driver
2002-04-17 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.37 0.5 0.74 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. Troy Sand & Gravel Company Inc 1989 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 1
2025 1
2024 1
2023 1
2022 2
2021 1
2020 1
2019 1
2018 2
2017 2
2003 1
2002 1
2001 1
2000 1
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

FINTEC PORTABLE T-295 sits in Rensselaer County, New York, 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.
Rensselaer County, New York · Population 160,341
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$86,663
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 480 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 0 0 0
2025 Q4 578 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 664 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 640 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 112 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 508 2 0 3937.0
2024 Q3 656 0 0 0.0
Show 43 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 800 2 0 2500.0
2024 Q1 212 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 676 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 683 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 510 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 21 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 609 5 0 8210.2
2022 Q3 940 1 0 1063.8
2022 Q2 791 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 380 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 655 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 836 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 653 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 393 3 2 7633.6
2020 Q4 603 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 691 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 757 1 0 1321.0
2020 Q1 139 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 571 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 738 1 0 1355.0
2019 Q2 639 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 181 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 626 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,616 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 585 4 0 6837.6
2018 Q1 70 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 706 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 720 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 70 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 1,147 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 570 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 504 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 655 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 584 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 654 5 3 7645.3
2002 Q1 552 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 587 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 638 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 677 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 538 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 673 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 160 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 307 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.