Mining Incidents

Portable Crusher #1: 28 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Gorham, Cumberland County, ME  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1700594

Portable Crusher #1 has $3K 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 2001
28
citations
11
significant & substantial
$3,182
proposed penalties
$3,182
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
35
inspections on record
292
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: 292 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Portable Crusher #1 has $3K 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.
$3K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
28 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2019-04-25.
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.
39.3%
significant & substantial
7.1%
high negligence or reckless
39.3%
reasonably likely or greater
57.1%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 7.1% low, 85.7% moderate, 7.1% 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: 2018-08-01, 8 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
7
samples
2
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg4
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz3
Show the individual readings (7)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2018-08-01 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.45 Front-end Loader Operator
2018-08-01 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
2014-05-14 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2010-04-07 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.26 0.66 0.39 Crusher Oper/Worker
2010-04-07 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2001-07-24 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2001-07-24 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.17 0.44 0.39 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. Shaw Brothers Construction Inc 1990 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 2
2025 2
2024 2
2023 2
2022 2
2021 2
2020 3
2019 4
2018 4
2017 4
2016 6
2015 7
2014 6
2013 3
2012 7
2011 3
2010 3
2009 3
2008 3
2007 2
2006 2
2005 3
2004 3
2003 3
2002 2
2001 2
2000 1
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Portable Crusher #1 sits in Cumberland County, Maine, where the Census mining category is 0.0% 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.
Cumberland County, Maine · Population 305,940
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$92,983
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 151 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 151 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 251 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 2 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 0 0 0
2024 Q3 2 0 0 0.0
Show 98 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 2 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 2 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 2 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 2 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 101 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 851 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 2 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 251 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 751 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 153 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 751 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1,001 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 1,956 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 2,556 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 2,780 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 3,416 1 0 292.7
2019 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 1,176 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 976 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 881 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 226 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 2,451 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 1,816 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 712 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 1,026 1 1 974.7
2016 Q3 1,163 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 1,016 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 694 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 952 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 805 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 225 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 934 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 1,822 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 1,500 1 1 666.7
2014 Q1 201 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 920 2 1 2173.9
2013 Q3 614 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 363 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 120 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 2,292 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 2,034 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 1,570 2 2 1273.9
2012 Q1 1,654 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 1,000 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 1,604 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 697 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 486 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 1,268 2 1 1577.3
2010 Q3 637 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 529 1 1 1890.4
2010 Q1 525 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 699 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 555 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 803 3 0 3736.0
2009 Q1 439 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 559 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 389 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 281 1 0 3558.7
2008 Q1 154 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 489 3 1 6135.0
2007 Q3 294 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 296 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 264 2 0 7575.8
2006 Q4 347 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 49 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 288 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 437 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 617 1 0 1620.7
2005 Q3 653 1 0 1531.4
2005 Q2 693 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 301 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 641 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 935 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 747 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 249 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 503 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 451 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 1,261 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 374 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 852 2 2 2347.4
2002 Q3 427 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 428 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 156 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 312 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 290 3 0 10344.8
2001 Q2 358 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 321 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 141 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 348 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 620 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 250 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.