Mining Incidents

MIDDLETOWN PLANT: 27 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Peckham Brothers Company Inc · Surface
Controlled by Julian F Peckham Jr
MIDDLETOWN, Newport County, RI  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3700003

MIDDLETOWN PLANT has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $788 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 2002
27
citations
9
significant & substantial
$4,243
proposed penalties
$3,455
paid to date
81% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $788 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
14
inspections on record
153
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: 153 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

MIDDLETOWN PLANT has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $788 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
$3K
paid to date
$788
outstanding
24 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2005-07-19.
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.
37.5%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
37.5%
reasonably likely or greater
45.8%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 4.2% low, 95.8% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. Peckham Brothers Company Inc 1950 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2007 1
2006 2
2005 3
2004 3
2003 2
2002 2
2001 3
2000 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

MIDDLETOWN PLANT sits in Newport County, Rhode Island, 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.
Newport County, Rhode Island · Population 85,095
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$100,859
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
2007 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 309 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 166 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 0 0 0
2005 Q4 164 0 0 0.0
Show 21 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2005 Q3 1 3 1 3000000.0
2005 Q2 300 7 3 23333.3
2005 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 184 1 0 5434.8
2004 Q3 221 1 0 4524.9
2004 Q2 89 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 0 0 0
2003 Q3 227 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 130 11 4 84615.4
2003 Q1 0 0 0
2002 Q4 79 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 261 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 104 4 1 38461.5
2002 Q1 0 0 0
2001 Q4 345 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 466 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 209 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 241 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 173 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 111 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.