Mining Incidents

Leighton Excavation Company: 29 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Leighton Excavation Company · Surface
Controlled by Lesley H Leighton
LYMAN, York County, ME  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1700767

Leighton Excavation Company 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 2005
29
citations
4
significant & substantial
$4,318
proposed penalties
$4,318
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2004
31
inspections on record
317
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: 317 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Leighton Excavation Company 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
29 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.
Violation severity profile
Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
13.8%
significant & substantial
6.9%
high negligence or reckless
13.8%
reasonably likely or greater
41.4%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 13.8% low, 79.3% moderate, 6.9% 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: 2024-11-05
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
6
samples
3
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz3
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg3
Show the individual readings (6)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2024-11-05 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2022-09-13 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2019-10-02 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2015-04-29 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.25 1.86 0.13 Front-end Loader Operator
2010-06-30 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.13 0.88 0.15 Backhoe Operator
2010-06-30 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.18 0.67 0.27 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. Leighton Excavation Company 2004 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 2
2025 2
2024 3
2023 2
2022 1
2021 1
2020 1
2019 1
2018 1
2017 1
2016 1
2015 1
2014 1
2013 1
2012 1
2011 1
2010 1
2009 1
2008 1
2007 1
2006 2
2005 1
2004 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Leighton Excavation Company sits in York County, Maine, 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.
York County, Maine · Population 214,731
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$82,904
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 960 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 180 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 2,014 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 1,920 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 240 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 1,020 2 0 1960.8
2024 Q3 1,440 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 680 0 0 0.0
Show 80 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q1 680 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 860 1 0 1162.8
2023 Q3 1,040 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 860 2 1 2325.6
2023 Q1 720 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 480 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 520 1 0 1923.1
2022 Q2 560 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 254 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 380 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 480 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 480 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 136 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 340 1 0 2941.2
2020 Q3 420 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 480 2 0 4166.7
2020 Q1 96 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 480 2 0 4166.7
2019 Q3 488 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 480 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 120 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 334 1 0 2994.0
2018 Q3 180 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 520 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 80 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 380 1 0 2631.6
2017 Q3 460 1 0 2173.9
2017 Q2 460 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 80 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 380 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 460 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 460 1 0 2173.9
2016 Q1 82 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 321 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 420 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 480 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 0 0 0
2014 Q4 400 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 430 1 1 2325.6
2014 Q2 420 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 0 0 0
2013 Q4 360 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 362 1 0 2762.4
2013 Q2 240 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 0 0 0
2012 Q4 172 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 400 3 0 7500.0
2012 Q2 480 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 0 0 0
2011 Q4 90 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 160 2 1 12500.0
2011 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q4 200 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 520 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 520 1 0 1923.1
2010 Q1 0 0 0
2009 Q4 240 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 464 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 308 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 0 1 0
2008 Q4 240 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 396 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 232 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 0 0 0
2007 Q4 72 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 256 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 364 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 0 0 0
2006 Q4 40 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 148 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 156 1 0 6410.3
2006 Q1 91 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 61 1 0 16393.4
2005 Q3 122 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 162 3 1 18518.5
2005 Q1 60 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 104 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 73 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 128 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.