Mining Incidents

Plymouth Plant Metal/Non-Metal

T.L Edwards, Inc. · Surface
Controlled by Terry L Edwards
Plymouth, Plymouth County, MA  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1900506

Plymouth Plant has $21K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
4
Years on record
1994–2009
Latest incident
Dec 2009
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
149
citations
27
significant & substantial
$20,628
proposed penalties
$19,782
paid to date
96% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $846 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
62
inspections on record
885
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: 885 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Plymouth Plant has $21K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 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.
$21K
proposed penalties
$20K
current assessed
$20K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
147 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-07-10.
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 2,782 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 2,549 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 2,555 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 2,030 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 3,681 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 4,426 1 0 225.9
2024 Q2 4,531 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 3,331 1 1 300.2
Show 96 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 3,401 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 3,448 1 0 290.0
2023 Q2 3,846 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 3,114 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 3,651 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 4,569 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 5,002 2 0 399.8
2022 Q1 3,874 4 0 1032.5
2021 Q4 4,322 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 4,681 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 4,590 1 0 217.9
2021 Q1 3,809 1 0 262.5
2020 Q4 4,417 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 4,723 3 0 635.2
2020 Q2 4,648 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 3,982 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 4,614 1 0 216.7
2019 Q3 5,042 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 4,447 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 3,338 2 0 599.2
2018 Q4 4,498 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 4,403 3 1 681.4
2018 Q2 4,753 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 3,727 2 1 536.6
2017 Q4 4,403 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 4,344 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 4,166 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 3,288 2 1 608.3
2016 Q4 4,434 3 0 676.6
2016 Q3 4,787 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 5,104 1 0 195.9
2016 Q1 3,134 3 1 957.2
2015 Q4 4,197 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 4,456 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 4,332 5 2 1154.2
2015 Q1 2,576 2 1 776.4
2014 Q4 4,618 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 4,668 1 0 214.2
2014 Q2 5,081 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 3,478 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 3,621 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 4,111 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 4,041 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 3,543 5 0 1411.2
2012 Q4 3,750 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 3,403 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 3,233 2 1 618.6
2012 Q1 2,545 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 3,158 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 3,842 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 3,734 3 0 803.4
2011 Q1 3,013 4 0 1327.6
2010 Q4 4,825 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 6,308 6 4 951.2
2010 Q2 2,028 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 2,211 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 3,656 4 0 1094.1
2009 Q3 3,134 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 4,138 20 3 4833.3
2009 Q1 3,547 4 1 1127.7
2008 Q4 5,972 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 5,133 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 4,515 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 3,571 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 5,679 4 2 704.3
2007 Q3 7,050 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 8,058 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 5,540 6 2 1083.0
2006 Q4 8,356 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 8,493 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 8,301 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 5,698 7 1 1228.5
2005 Q4 9,001 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 11,351 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 11,940 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 6,302 3 0 476.0
2004 Q4 9,586 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 9,963 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 2,673 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 6,147 5 0 813.4
2003 Q4 8,956 1 0 111.7
2003 Q3 8,316 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 7,467 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 3,581 4 0 1117.0
2002 Q4 6,488 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 9,796 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 9,528 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 5,591 7 2 1252.0
2001 Q4 8,533 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 7,878 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 6,003 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 7,893 2 0 253.4
2000 Q4 9,974 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 9,761 1 0 102.4
2000 Q2 9,872 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 16,670 22 3 1319.7
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

4 on file

2009 · 1 incident

December 9, 2009 MA · Metal/Non-Metal belt foreman, maintenance foreman, maintenance supervisor HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Mayflower Sand & Gravel · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

Employee was dragging a screen deck across the ground and strained his right shoulder.

2000 · 1 incident

February 28, 2000 MA · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Mayflower Sand & Gravel · Struck against stationary object

EE WAS WALKING WITH PART & WAS BENT OVER DUE TO LOW CEILING HIS HARD HAT WAS KNOCKED OFF BY CEILING EE BENT DOWN TO RETRIEVE HIS HAT & HIT HIS HEAD ON A LIGHT FIXTURE WHEN HE STOOD UP

1999 · 1 incident

July 30, 1999 MA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY
Mayflower Sand & Gravel · Contact with hot objects or substances

CUTTING TORCH WAS PINCHED BETWEEN METAL PARTS TORCHED FLIPPED UP & BURNT EE UNDER RIGHT ARM

1994 · 1 incident

June 7, 1994 MA · Metal/Non-Metal coal/ore shovel operator, shoveler, power shoveler SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Mayflower Sand & Gravel · Fall onto or against objects

THE OPERATOR SLIPPED ON A WET ROCK. THE OPERATOR DID NOT TAKE ENOUGH CAUTION.

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The full compliance file on Plymouth Plant

A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.