Granite State Concrete Company Inc has $10K in proposed MSHA penalties and $154 outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2012
Latest incident
Feb 2012
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2009
54
citations
17
significant & substantial
$10,312
proposed penalties
$9,818
paid to date
95% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $494 gap.
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: 396 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Granite State Concrete Company Inc has $10K in proposed MSHA penalties and $154 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.
$10K
proposed penalties
$10K
current assessed
$10K
paid to date
$154
outstanding
50 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $1K in penalties contested before the Commission, $740 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-06-11.
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.
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.
2citations taken to the federal commission · 4% of citations on record
Settled
2 · 100%
31%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$1K proposed, $740 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 A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record.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 2014-03-30.
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.
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: 2021-02-09, 5 years ago
14%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
8
samples
7
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz51 over
Arsenic fumes1
Beryllium fumes1
Cadmium oxide fumes1
Show the individual readings (20)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2019-05-22
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.69
0.5
1.38
Bobcat Operator
2021-02-09
Zinc oxide fumes
0
10
0.00
Welder, etc.
2021-02-09
Magnesium oxide fumes
0
20
0.00
Welder, etc.
2021-02-09
Manganese fumes
0.27
5
0.05
Welder, etc.
2021-02-09
Molybdenum fumes
0
20
0.00
Welder, etc.
2021-02-09
Nickel fumes
0
3
0.00
Welder, etc.
2021-02-09
Vanadium fumes
0
50
0.00
Welder, etc.
2021-02-09
Arsenic fumes
0
1500
0.00
Welder, etc.
2021-02-09
Beryllium fumes
0
6
0.00
Welder, etc.
2021-02-09
Cadmium oxide fumes
0
100
0.00
Welder, etc.
2021-02-09
Chromium, insoluble
0
3
0.00
Welder, etc.
2021-02-09
Cobalt fumes
0
300
0.00
Welder, etc.
2021-02-09
Copper fumes
0
300
0.00
Welder, etc.
2021-02-09
Iron oxide fumes
1.27
20
0.06
Welder, etc.
2021-02-09
Lead fumes
0
450
0.00
Welder, etc.
2019-07-02
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.45
0.89
0.51
Bobcat Operator
2019-05-22
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.89
1
0.89
Crusher Oper/Worker
2009-09-10
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.66
0.73
0.90
Front-end Loader Operator
2009-09-10
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.27
0.48
0.56
Crusher Oper/Worker
2009-09-10
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
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.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2026
5
2025
6
2024
5
2023
5
2022
3
2021
5
2020
6
2019
5
2018
6
2017
6
2016
6
2015
7
2014
9
2013
11
2012
10
2011
10
2010
9
2009
4
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Granite State Concrete Company Inc sits in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 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.
Middlesex County, Massachusetts · Population 1,622,896
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$126,779
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
Mill steel used a single clamp to grab two plates at once, grab failed to secure properly both plates fell out of clamp striking right knee causing fracture and tear to left knee.
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