Mining Incidents

LT116-003: 7 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Mellott Company LLC · Surface
Controlled by Jonathan Schilowitz
Peach Bottom, Lancaster County, PA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1800804

LT116-003 has $875 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
1
Years on record
2023
Latest incident
Jun 2023
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2017
7
citations
0
significant & substantial
$875
proposed penalties
$875
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2017
10
inspections on record
87
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: 87 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

LT116-003 has $875 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.
$875
proposed penalties
$875
current assessed
$875
paid to date
$0
outstanding
7 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-11-26.
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.
0.0%
significant & substantial
14.3%
high negligence or reckless
0.0%
reasonably likely or greater
28.6%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 28.6% low, 57.1% moderate, 14.3% 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: 2023-03-21, 3 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
7
samples
3
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz2
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg2
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz2
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (7)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2023-03-21 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2023-03-21 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.18 Dry Screen Plant Operator
2023-03-21 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.19 Utility Man
2022-05-10 Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz 1.49 10 0.15 Front-end Loader Operator
2022-05-10 Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz 4.99 10 0.50 Crusher Oper/Worker
2017-03-07 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.21 1.22 0.17 Crusher Oper/Worker
2017-03-07 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. Mellott Company LLC 2017 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2025 0
2024 6
2023 5
2022 4
2021 3
2020 4
2019 4
2017 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

LT116-003 sits in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 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.
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania · Population 555,151
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$83,703
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
2025 Q2 0 0 0
2025 Q1 0 0 0
2024 Q4 2,540 1 0 393.7
2024 Q3 3,301 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 3,274 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 1,502 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 2,361 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 2,873 0 0 0.0
Show 15 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q2 2,412 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 598 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 2,468 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 3,201 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 2,025 1 0 493.8
2022 Q1 441 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1,927 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,287 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 973 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 2,336 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 1,152 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 2,812 3 0 1066.9
2017 Q3 1,231 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 1,422 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 471 2 0 4246.3
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2023 · 1 incident

June 5, 2023 PA · Metal/Non-Metal miner, prospector, nec HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Mellott Company LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee was moving rock on the back side of the rock box of the jaw crusher. EE's left pinky finger was caught between rock and the rock box. Laceration on outside of left pinky.