Mining Incidents

Highland Quarry Metal/Non-Metal

Hughes Bros Inc · Surface
Controlled by Larry Langille
Dedham, Hancock County, ME  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1700942

Highland Quarry has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 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 2014
23
citations
6
significant & substantial
$3,520
proposed penalties
$3,520
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2014
12
inspections on record
163
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: 163 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Highland Quarry has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 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.
$4K
proposed penalties
$4K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
23 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-11-05.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
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
2025 Q4 1,463 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 1,798 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 1,509 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 771 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 1,781 3 2 1684.4
2024 Q3 1,793 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 1,717 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 550 0 0 0.0
Show 38 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 1,538 1 0 650.2
2023 Q3 1,754 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 1,574 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 324 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 893 2 1 2239.6
2022 Q3 2,025 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,844 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 416 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1,382 4 1 2894.4
2021 Q3 1,689 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 1,282 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 459 1 0 2178.6
2020 Q4 1,940 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 2,431 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 1,895 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 0 0 0
2019 Q4 884 1 0 1131.2
2019 Q3 2,142 3 0 1400.6
2019 Q2 1,487 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 253 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 685 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,783 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 69 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 366 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 1,726 3 1 1738.1
2017 Q3 750 2 1 2666.7
2017 Q2 70 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 134 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 616 1 0 1623.4
2016 Q3 243 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 363 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 308 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 222 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 719 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 622 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 141 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 496 2 0 4032.3
2014 Q3 382 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.

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