Mining Incidents

Goodwin's & Sons Gravel Pit: 4 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Goodwin's & Sons Gravel Pit · Surface
Controlled by Stanley R Goodwin
Rouletta, Potter County, PA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3609153

Goodwin's & Sons Gravel Pit has $543 in proposed MSHA penalties and $22 outstanding across 2 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
4
citations
1
significant & substantial
$543
proposed penalties
$521
paid to date
96% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $22 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2003
21
inspections on record
205
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: 205 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Goodwin's & Sons Gravel Pit has $543 in proposed MSHA penalties and $22 outstanding across 2 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.
$543
proposed penalties
$543
current assessed
$521
paid to date
$22
outstanding
4 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
Of $1K in penalties contested before the Commission, $1K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2014-09-09.
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
25.0%
high negligence or reckless
25.0%
reasonably likely or greater
25.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 75.0% moderate, 25.0% 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.
9 citations taken to the federal commission
  • Stood as issued 9 · 100%
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 1 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
0%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$1K proposed, $1K 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 2014-12-16.
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
PENN 2012-108M Default Lesnick 2012 $943 → $943
PENN 2015-0069 Default Lesnick 2015 $100 → $100
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: 2009-05-21, 17 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
1
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (1)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2009-05-21 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.21 0.84 0.25 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. Goodwin's & Sons Gravel Pit 2003 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2016 1
2015 2
2014 3
2013 3
2012 3
2011 4
2010 4
2009 4
2008 2
2007 2
2006 2
2005 2
2004 2
2003 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Goodwin's & Sons Gravel Pit sits in Potter County, Pennsylvania, where the Census mining category is 2.3% 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.
Potter County, Pennsylvania · Population 16,276
2.3%
Mining share of county employment
$59,840
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 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 23 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 23 0 0 0.0
Show 43 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2014 Q4 38 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 159 1 0 6289.3
2014 Q2 61 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 23 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 31 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 15 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 105 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 59 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 101 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 25 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 83 3 1 36144.6
2011 Q3 181 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 144 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 73 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 120 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 253 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 233 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 44 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 99 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 83 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 114 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 140 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 480 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 43 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 28 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 71 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 102 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 26 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 24 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 51 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 106 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 22 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 16 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 91 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 218 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 28 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 24 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 78 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 38 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 14 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 23 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 47 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 21 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.