Mining Incidents

Perkins Pit: 36 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Rick Perkins Contracting · Surface
Controlled by Eric Perkins
Farmersville, Cattaraugus County, NY  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 3003841

Perkins Pit 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 2012
36
citations
6
significant & substantial
$4,635
proposed penalties
$4,635
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2012
18
inspections on record
194
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: 194 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Perkins Pit 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
31 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-05-19.
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.
16.7%
significant & substantial
2.8%
high negligence or reckless
16.7%
reasonably likely or greater
44.4%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 47.2% low, 50.0% moderate, 2.8% 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: 2021-06-30, 5 years ago
1
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (1)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2021-06-30 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. Rick Perkins Contracting 2012 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 1
2025 1
2024 2
2023 4
2022 2
2021 2
2020 2
2019 2
2018 3
2017 3
2016 4
2015 4
2014 5
2013 4
2012 5
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Perkins Pit sits in Cattaraugus County, New York, where the Census mining category is 0.4% 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.
Cattaraugus County, New York · Population 76,479
0.4%
Mining share of county employment
$58,248
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 132 5 0 37878.8
2026 Q1 0 0 0
2025 Q4 20 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 133 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 51 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 0 0 0
2024 Q4 91 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 213 0 0 0.0
Show 48 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 125 1 0 8000.0
2024 Q1 0 0 0
2023 Q4 61 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 579 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 402 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 0 0 0
2022 Q4 112 3 0 26785.7
2022 Q3 487 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 436 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 17 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 227 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 421 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 362 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 0 0 0
2020 Q4 214 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 589 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 294 1 0 3401.4
2020 Q1 0 0 0
2019 Q4 260 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 736 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 361 1 0 2770.1
2019 Q1 70 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 215 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 731 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 413 1 0 2421.3
2018 Q1 64 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 127 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 188 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 220 2 0 9090.9
2017 Q1 18 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 262 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 591 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 328 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 228 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 201 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 160 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 150 3 0 20000.0
2015 Q1 48 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 104 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 298 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 303 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 117 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 177 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 358 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 339 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 6 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 164 3 1 18292.7
2012 Q3 511 16 5 31311.2

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.