Mining Incidents

Portable Crusher C621: 1 reportable incident Metal/Non-Metal

Pike Industries Inc · Surface
Controlled by CRH PLC
SMITHFIELD, Somerset County, ME  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1700443

MSHA record for Portable Crusher C621 (mine ID 1700443). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
1992
Latest incident
Apr 1992
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
9
inspections on record
92
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: 92 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, 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: 2004-06-30, 22 years ago
4
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg4
Show the individual readings (4)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2004-06-30 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Utility Man
2004-06-30 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2004-06-30 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Supervisor, Co. Official
2004-06-30 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. Warren Brothers Company Inc 1950 to 1979
  2. Tilcon Maine Inc 1979 to 1996
  3. Pike Industries Inc 1997 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2007 0
2006 5
2005 5
2004 6
2003 5
2002 7
2001 7
2000 4
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Portable Crusher C621 sits in Somerset County, Maine, where the Census mining category is 0.1% 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.
Somerset County, Maine · Population 50,852
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$56,199
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
2007 Q3 0 0 0
2007 Q2 0 0 0
2007 Q1 0 0 0
2006 Q4 2,558 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 3,786 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 5,321 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 669 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 2,737 0 0 0.0
Show 23 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2005 Q3 5,892 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 3,888 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 0 0 0
2004 Q4 3,731 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 2,560 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 2,161 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 0 0 0
2003 Q4 244 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 2,571 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 2,774 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 1,341 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 2,018 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 4,006 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 4,198 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 537 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 3,505 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 3,908 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 718 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 24 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 358 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 154 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 223 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 295 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

1992 · 1 incident

April 20, 1992 ME · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator MACHINERY
Tilcon Maine Inc · Flash burns (welding)

WELDING FLASH FROM WELDING ROLLS ON CRUSHER.