Mining Incidents

Portable Pioneer Crusher: 22 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Pickett's Inc. · Surface
Controlled by Lawrence Pickett
Randolph, Orange County, VT  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4300636

Portable Pioneer Crusher has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $23 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 2007
22
citations
3
significant & substantial
$3,302
proposed penalties
$3,279
paid to date
99% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $23 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2006
18
inspections on record
137
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: 137 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 Pioneer Crusher has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $23 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
$23
outstanding
22 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2020-10-19.
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.
13.6%
significant & substantial
27.3%
high negligence or reckless
13.6%
reasonably likely or greater
68.2%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 27.3% low, 45.5% moderate, 27.3% 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: 2012-07-25, 14 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
1
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (1)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2012-07-25 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.21 0.75 0.28 Crusher Oper/Worker
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. Pickett's Inc. 2005 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2021 1
2020 1
2019 2
2018 0
2017 0
2016 1
2015 1
2014 1
2013 1
2012 2
2011 1
2010 1
2009 1
2008 2
2007 1
2006 1
2005 0
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Portable Pioneer Crusher sits in Orange County, Vermont, 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.
Orange County, Vermont · Population 29,594
0.3%
Mining share of county employment
$77,328
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
2021 Q4 0 0 0
2021 Q2 90 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 6 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 0 0 0
2020 Q2 24 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 20 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 8 1 0 125000.0
2019 Q3 80 0 0 0.0
Show 49 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2019 Q2 16 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 0 0 0
2018 Q4 0 0 0
2018 Q2 8 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 0 0 0
2017 Q4 8 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 0 0 0
2017 Q2 0 0 0
2017 Q1 0 0 0
2016 Q4 16 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 0 0 0
2015 Q4 16 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 46 3 0 65217.4
2015 Q1 0 0 0
2014 Q4 8 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 88 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 16 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 0 0 0
2013 Q4 4 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 8 1 0 125000.0
2013 Q2 10 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 0 0 0
2012 Q4 16 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 252 8 2 31746.0
2012 Q2 168 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 20 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 30 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 280 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q4 16 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 80 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 0 0 0
2010 Q1 0 0 0
2009 Q4 40 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 40 7 0 175000.0
2009 Q2 80 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 0 0 0
2008 Q4 40 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 80 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 24 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 0 0 0
2007 Q4 40 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 60 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 0 0 0
2006 Q4 16 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 120 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 40 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 0 0 0
2005 Q4 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.