Mining Incidents

Peterson Pit: 25 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Earl Becker Construction Inc · Surface
Controlled by Earl Becker
Mexico, Oswego County, NY  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 3003062

Peterson Pit has $6K 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 2019
25
citations
7
significant & substantial
$6,450
proposed penalties
$6,450
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2019
14
inspections on record
134
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: 134 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Peterson Pit has $6K 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.
$6K
proposed penalties
$6K
current assessed
$6K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
25 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-11-26.
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.
28.0%
significant & substantial
8.0%
high negligence or reckless
28.0%
reasonably likely or greater
48.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 8.0% low, 84.0% moderate, 8.0% 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: 2020-08-11, 6 years ago
2
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg2
Show the individual readings (2)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2020-08-11 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2020-08-11 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe 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. Earl Becker Construction Inc 1992 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 0
2025 2
2024 2
2023 1
2022 2
2021 2
2020 2
2019 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Peterson Pit sits in Oswego County, New York, where the Census mining category is 0.3% 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.
Oswego County, New York · Population 117,945
0.3%
Mining share of county employment
$68,461
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 Q1 0 0 0
2025 Q4 483 2 1 4140.8
2025 Q3 981 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 946 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 64 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 450 2 0 4444.4
2024 Q2 855 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 165 0 0 0.0
Show 20 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 750 1 0 1333.3
2023 Q3 480 1 0 2083.3
2023 Q2 480 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 60 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 360 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 520 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 984 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 225 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 647 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 842 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 960 5 2 5208.3
2021 Q1 215 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 750 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 960 3 1 3125.0
2020 Q2 1,068 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 175 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 622 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 960 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 960 11 3 11458.3
2019 Q1 50 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.