Mining Incidents

HARVEYS PEAVINE PIT: 96 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

HARVEY'S PLUMBING AND EXCAVATING LLC · Surface
Rochester, Windsor County, VT  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 4300463

HARVEYS PEAVINE PIT has $19K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 3 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
96
citations
30
significant & substantial
$18,602
proposed penalties
$14,265
paid to date
77% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $4,337 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
38
inspections on record
505
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: 505 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

HARVEYS PEAVINE PIT has $19K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 3 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.
$19K
proposed penalties
$14K
current assessed
$14K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
95 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
Of $11K in penalties contested before the Commission, $6K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-10-21.
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.
31.6%
significant & substantial
7.4%
high negligence or reckless
29.5%
reasonably likely or greater
52.6%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 16.8% low, 75.8% moderate, 7.4% 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.
28 citations taken to the federal commission · 29% of citations on record
  • Settled 25 · 89%
  • Vacated or withdrawn 3 · 11%
75%
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 12 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
55%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$8K proposed, $4K 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 2014-04-26.
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 2012-89M Settlement Steele 2012 $7K → $3K
YORK20020058M Settlement Barbour 2002 $3K → $2K
YORK 2014-0130 Settlement Moran 2014 $807 → $646
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: 2025-10-21
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
5
samples
2
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg3
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz2
Show the individual readings (5)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2025-10-21 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
2025-10-21 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2011-11-29 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2011-11-29 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.18 1.26 0.14 Backhoe Operator
2011-11-29 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.25 0.42 0.60 Backhoe 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. Harvey's Plumbing and Excavating LLC 1990 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 2
2025 2
2024 2
2023 2
2022 2
2021 2
2020 3
2019 2
2018 2
2017 3
2016 2
2015 2
2014 2
2013 3
2012 4
2011 3
2010 1
2009 1
2008 1
2007 1
2006 1
2005 1
2004 1
2003 1
2002 1
2001 1
2000 1
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

HARVEYS PEAVINE PIT sits in Windsor County, Vermont, where the Census mining category is 0.2% 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.
Windsor County, Vermont · Population 57,968
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$75,247
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 665 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 256 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 588 4 1 6802.7
2025 Q3 793 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 733 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 558 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 580 1 0 1724.1
2024 Q3 797 3 0 3764.1
Show 96 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 626 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 673 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 588 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 564 4 0 7092.2
2023 Q2 496 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 349 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 384 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 254 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 376 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 155 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 256 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 249 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 371 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 367 1 0 2724.8
2020 Q3 323 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 599 2 0 3338.9
2020 Q1 188 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 532 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 668 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 470 1 0 2127.7
2019 Q1 21 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 173 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 208 1 0 4807.7
2018 Q2 383 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 19 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 422 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 563 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 598 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 708 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 549 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 551 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 560 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 383 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 461 1 0 2169.2
2015 Q3 596 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 281 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 19 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 463 1 0 2159.8
2014 Q3 455 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 613 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 273 1 0 3663.0
2013 Q4 427 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 557 4 0 7181.3
2013 Q2 681 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 376 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 925 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 611 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 494 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 392 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 1,800 24 9 13333.3
2011 Q3 612 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 260 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 187 2 1 10695.2
2010 Q3 624 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 130 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 40 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 75 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 205 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 163 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 42 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 87 5 2 57471.3
2008 Q3 190 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 180 3 2 16666.7
2008 Q1 30 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 92 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 180 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 239 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 47 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 80 4 0 50000.0
2006 Q3 228 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 195 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 70 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 64 4 1 62500.0
2005 Q3 215 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 220 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 85 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 300 3 0 10000.0
2004 Q3 220 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 262 1 0 3816.8
2004 Q1 72 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 182 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 320 3 0 9375.0
2003 Q2 260 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 32 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 160 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 420 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 210 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 32 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 220 9 7 40909.1
2001 Q3 170 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 110 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 0 0 0
2000 Q4 220 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 145 9 6 62069.0
2000 Q2 70 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 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.