Mining Incidents

Mosquito Mountain Quarry: 47 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Freshwater Stone & Brick Inc · Surface
Controlled by Jeffrey R Gammelin
FRANKFORT, Waldo County, ME  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1700751

Mosquito Mountain Quarry has $5K 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 2004
47
citations
10
significant & substantial
$4,690
proposed penalties
$4,690
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2003
32
inspections on record
460
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: 460 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Mosquito Mountain Quarry has $5K 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.
$5K
proposed penalties
$5K
current assessed
$5K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
47 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2023-11-27.
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.
21.3%
significant & substantial
12.8%
high negligence or reckless
21.3%
reasonably likely or greater
38.3%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 17.0% low, 70.2% moderate, 12.8% 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: 2023-11-28
20%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
12
samples
5
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz51 over
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg7
Show the individual readings (12)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2021-06-30 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 1.5 0.77 1.95 Stone Polisher/Cutter
2023-11-28 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2021-08-11 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Drill Operator, Rotary
2021-06-30 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.31 0.58 0.53 Utility Man
2016-04-20 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2016-04-20 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Forklift Operator
2009-11-04 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.23 0.8 0.29 Jackhammer Operator
2009-11-04 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.19 0.79 0.24 Laborer, Bullgang
2009-11-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Drill Helper
2004-08-25 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Cutting Mach Operator
2004-08-25 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2004-08-25 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.18 0.54 0.33 Drill Operator, Rotary Air
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. Freshwater Stone & Brick Inc 2003 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 4
2025 4
2024 4
2023 4
2022 3
2021 4
2020 4
2019 5
2018 5
2017 5
2016 4
2015 4
2014 3
2013 3
2012 3
2011 1
2010 2
2009 3
2008 2
2007 4
2006 6
2005 4
2004 3
2003 3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Mosquito Mountain Quarry sits in Waldo 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.
Waldo County, Maine · Population 40,006
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$68,441
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 1,194 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 100 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 1,312 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 1,449 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 1,240 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 72 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 1,135 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 534 0 0 0.0
Show 79 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 1,680 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 338 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 1,037 1 1 964.3
2023 Q3 1,673 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 1,228 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 1,054 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,067 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,563 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 118 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 950 1 0 1052.6
2021 Q3 1,590 1 0 628.9
2021 Q2 1,515 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 102 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 1,569 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1,738 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 1,467 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 108 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 1,428 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 2,150 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 1,369 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 91 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 1,780 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 2,336 1 0 428.1
2018 Q2 1,880 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 139 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 620 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 1,314 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 2,512 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 206 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 642 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 567 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 1,715 2 1 1166.2
2016 Q1 203 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 377 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1,602 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 1,391 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 244 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 666 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 25 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 173 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 650 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 1,426 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 290 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 1,674 4 0 2389.5
2012 Q3 1,540 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 814 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 0 0 0
2011 Q1 400 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 881 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 1,102 1 0 907.4
2010 Q2 1,327 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 381 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 1,349 6 2 4447.7
2009 Q3 1,877 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 823 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 0 0 0
2008 Q4 1,005 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 1,747 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 1,258 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 520 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 1,046 8 2 7648.2
2007 Q3 1,752 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 1,570 5 0 3184.7
2006 Q3 2,754 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 1,953 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 1,189 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 1,607 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 2,196 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 1,570 1 0 636.9
2005 Q1 0 0 0
2004 Q3 1,009 16 4 15857.3
2004 Q2 1,509 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 48 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 1,442 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 1,646 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.