Mining Incidents

PORTABLE PLANT #1: 53 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Lakeside Crushing Corp · Surface
Controlled by Lorraine De Moranville
NORTH DARTMOUTH, Bristol County, MA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1901044

PORTABLE PLANT #1 has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 4 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 2000
53
citations
7
significant & substantial
$4,105
proposed penalties
$3,153
paid to date
77% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $952 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
17
inspections on record
232
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: 232 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 PLANT #1 has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 4 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.
$4K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
39 assessments are final orders; 4 contested dockets.
Of $30K in penalties contested before the Commission, $500 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2009-09-22.
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.
15.2%
significant & substantial
6.5%
high negligence or reckless
15.2%
reasonably likely or greater
65.2%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 8.7% low, 84.8% moderate, 6.5% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
When citations were contested
Contesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
46 citations taken to the federal commission · 87% of citations on record
  • Vacated or withdrawn 46 · 100%
0%
S&S designation survived the contest
Counts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.
of 15 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
100%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$30K proposed, $0 after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2010-01-05.
Contested penalties
A reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.
Largest penalties this mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
YORK 2010-88M Withdrawal Lesnick 2011 $24K → $0
YORK 2010-89M Withdrawal Melick 2010 $5K → $0
YORK 2010-133M Withdrawal Rae 2011 $567 → $0
YORK20030009M Default Feldman 2003 $500 → $500
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), 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: 2003-08-28, 23 years ago
1
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg1
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Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2003-08-28 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. Lakeside Crushing Corp 1995 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2010 0
2009 1
2007 1
2006 1
2005 3
2004 2
2003 2
2002 3
2001 2
2000 4
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

PORTABLE PLANT #1 sits in Bristol County, Massachusetts, 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.
Bristol County, Massachusetts · Population 578,436
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$84,198
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
2010 Q1 0 0 0
2009 Q4 40 7 0 175000.0
2007 Q3 0 0 0
2007 Q2 90 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 47 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 94 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 312 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 80 0 0 0.0
Show 25 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2006 Q1 280 4 1 14285.7
2005 Q4 428 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 450 14 0 31111.1
2005 Q2 360 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 20 1 0 50000.0
2004 Q4 70 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 125 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 117 1 0 8547.0
2004 Q1 0 1 0
2003 Q4 168 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 16 10 3 625000.0
2003 Q2 0 0 0
2003 Q1 48 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 72 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 96 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 176 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 120 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 112 5 1 44642.9
2001 Q3 24 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 120 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 0 0 0
2000 Q4 120 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 248 2 1 8064.5
2000 Q2 224 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 96 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.