Mining Incidents

Newport Aggregates Metal/Non-Metal

Newport Aggregates · Surface
Controlled by Rick Defelice
Westford, Middlesex County, MA  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 1901271

Newport Aggregates has $57K in proposed MSHA penalties and $716 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 2018
96
citations
23
significant & substantial
$56,846
proposed penalties
$56,130
paid to date
99% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $716 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2018
23
inspections on record
420
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: 420 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Newport Aggregates has $57K in proposed MSHA penalties and $716 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.
$57K
proposed penalties
$57K
current assessed
$56K
paid to date
$716
outstanding
96 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-01-27.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
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 Q4 10,617 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 5,649 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 7,495 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 7,110 3 1 421.9
2024 Q4 5,918 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 5,225 5 1 956.9
2024 Q2 8,807 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 7,150 7 4 979.0
Show 23 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 5,187 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 5,830 3 1 514.6
2023 Q2 6,200 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 7,530 5 1 664.0
2022 Q4 5,900 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 8,996 8 2 889.3
2022 Q2 8,140 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 3,600 12 0 3333.3
2021 Q4 7,832 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 8,335 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 8,300 9 3 1084.3
2021 Q1 7,085 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 6,340 21 7 3312.3
2020 Q3 7,450 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 6,960 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 7,280 10 2 1373.6
2019 Q4 5,590 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 7,280 2 0 274.7
2019 Q2 3,797 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 1,690 4 0 2366.9
2018 Q4 1,926 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 2,080 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 2,354 5 1 2124.0

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.

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