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Greenbush Wash Plant: 53 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Owen J Folsom Inc · Surface
ALTON, Penobscot County, ME  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1700148

Greenbush Wash Plant has $9K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2006
Latest incident
Aug 2006
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
53
citations
16
significant & substantial
$8,797
proposed penalties
$8,797
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Owen J Folsom Inc's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
31
inspections on record
370
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: 370 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Greenbush Wash Plant has $9K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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.
$9K
proposed penalties
$9K
current assessed
$9K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
51 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
Of $2K in penalties contested before the Commission, $2K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-08-05.
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.
30.2%
significant & substantial
7.5%
high negligence or reckless
30.2%
reasonably likely or greater
60.4%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 17.0% low, 75.5% moderate, 7.5% 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.
2 citations taken to the federal commission · 4% of citations on record
  • Settled 1 · 50%
  • Vacated or withdrawn 1 · 50%
50%
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 2 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
12%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$2K proposed, $2K 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 2009-12-31.
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 2010-125M Settlement Lesnick 2010 $2K → $2K
YORK 2010-102M Withdrawal Lewis 2011 $263 → $0
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: 2025-08-05
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
7
samples
2
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg4
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz2
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (7)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2025-08-05 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2022-06-16 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2018-10-24 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2014-10-01 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2002-07-24 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.16 Front-end Loader Operator
2002-07-24 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.18 0.29 0.62 Front-end Loader Operator
2002-07-24 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.13 0.4 0.33 Truck Driver
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. Owen J Folsom Inc 1950 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 3
2025 2
2024 2
2023 2
2022 3
2021 2
2020 3
2019 3
2018 3
2017 3
2016 3
2015 4
2014 3
2013 2
2012 2
2011 3
2010 4
2009 3
2008 4
2007 3
2006 4
2005 4
2004 4
2003 4
2002 4
2001 2
2000 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Greenbush Wash Plant sits in Penobscot County, Maine, 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.
Penobscot County, Maine · Population 153,571
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$63,248
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 629 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 385 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 1,022 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 937 1 0 1067.2
2025 Q2 359 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 541 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 1,148 0 0 0.0
Show 98 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 1,209 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 465 1 0 2150.5
2023 Q3 469 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 632 1 0 1582.3
2023 Q1 117 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 1,165 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,105 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,218 1 0 821.0
2022 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 955 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 294 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 575 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 1,043 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 911 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 91 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 345 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 677 1 0 1477.1
2019 Q3 297 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 270 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 633 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 875 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 555 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 578 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 267 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 902 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 870 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 487 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 232 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 1,114 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 314 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 796 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 218 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 1,302 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1,595 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 1,583 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 701 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 678 1 0 1474.9
2014 Q3 758 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 815 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 73 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 647 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 436 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 333 1 0 3003.0
2013 Q1 153 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 531 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 206 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 263 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 112 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 711 3 2 4219.4
2011 Q3 653 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 1,199 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 58 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 1,281 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 901 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 1,513 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 323 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 1,812 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 1,139 7 2 6145.7
2009 Q2 1,068 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 384 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 2,321 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 1,935 5 2 2584.0
2008 Q2 657 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 596 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 1,387 1 0 721.0
2007 Q3 1,849 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 2,135 1 0 468.4
2007 Q1 780 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 2,610 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 2,454 4 2 1630.0
2006 Q2 1,692 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 881 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 2,444 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 1,029 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 2,335 2 0 856.5
2005 Q1 991 1 0 1009.1
2004 Q4 2,103 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 1,810 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 1,640 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 1,022 1 1 978.5
2003 Q4 1,216 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 1,300 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 2,339 5 2 2137.7
2003 Q1 858 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 1,745 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 1,787 4 1 2238.4
2002 Q2 1,850 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 353 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 1,798 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 2,063 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 1,881 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 0 0 0
2000 Q4 1,652 10 4 6053.3
2000 Q3 1,930 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 2,074 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 0 0 0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2006 · 1 incident

August 21, 2006 ME · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Owen J Folsom Inc · Fall from machine

While changing screens EE dropped his cell phone down onto the discharge belt below. Unable to reach it, he turned the belt on & dis- charged it out onto the bottom of a stacker conveyor. He then climbed up 32" onto the tail roll guard of the stacker & grabbed the phone. While climbing down his pant caught the guarding causing him to lose his balance & fall on his left shoulder.