Mining Incidents

Jaw Plant: 26 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Chief Crushing & Excavation, Inc · Surface
Controlled by Clark S Bogie
Wells River VT, Caledonia County, VT  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 4300695

Jaw Plant has $3K 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 2011
26
citations
1
significant & substantial
$3,200
proposed penalties
$3,200
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2008
23
inspections on record
230
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: 230 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Jaw Plant has $3K 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.
$3K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
25 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-05-19.
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.
3.8%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
3.8%
reasonably likely or greater
34.6%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 34.6% low, 65.4% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, 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: 2026-06-03
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
6
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg4
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (6)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2026-06-03 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2026-06-03 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2018-06-20 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.37 Crusher Oper/Worker
2008-12-03 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2008-12-03 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.2 0.97 0.21 Front-end Loader Operator
2008-12-03 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.
Ownership history
  1. Chief Crushing & Excavation, Inc 2008 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 4
2025 3
2024 3
2023 4
2022 3
2021 3
2020 4
2019 3
2018 4
2017 3
2016 3
2015 3
2014 4
2013 5
2012 9
2011 8
2010 6
2009 7
2008 7
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Jaw Plant sits in Caledonia County, Vermont, where the Census mining category is 0.1% 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.
Caledonia County, Vermont · Population 30,425
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$66,075
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 1,102 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 639 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 1,850 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 1,332 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 1,150 1 0 869.6
2025 Q1 0 0 0
2024 Q4 1,430 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 1,361 1 0 734.8
Show 64 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 862 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 589 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 848 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 896 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 737 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 766 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 894 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 987 9 0 9118.5
2022 Q2 861 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 103 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 634 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 873 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 1,073 1 0 932.0
2021 Q1 0 0 0
2020 Q4 687 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 988 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 708 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 354 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 781 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 778 3 0 3856.0
2019 Q2 563 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 0 0 0
2018 Q4 987 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,002 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 637 3 0 4709.6
2018 Q1 518 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 785 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 777 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 427 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 391 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 814 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 566 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 439 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1,036 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 719 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 737 2 0 2713.7
2014 Q3 1,081 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 356 1 0 2809.0
2014 Q1 79 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 598 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 1,012 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 874 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 37 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 1,568 1 0 637.8
2012 Q3 3,322 2 1 602.0
2012 Q2 3,255 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 557 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 2,151 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 2,522 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 1,806 1 0 553.7
2011 Q1 377 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 1,768 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 2,149 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 1,188 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 85 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 1,422 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 2,154 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 1,952 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 0 0 0
2008 Q4 1,489 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 1,143 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.