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Portable Plant: 49 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Thomas C Sturgeon
TOPSHAM, Sagadahoc County, ME  ·  Temporarily Idled
MSHA Mine ID: 1700576

Portable Plant has $6K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 8 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
1993–2004
Latest incident
May 2004
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
49
citations
8
significant & substantial
$5,844
proposed penalties
$5,844
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Crooker Construction, LLC's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
38
inspections on record
455
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: 455 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 has $6K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 8 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.
$6K
proposed penalties
$6K
current assessed
$6K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
49 assessments are final orders; 8 contested dockets.
Of $2K in penalties contested before the Commission, $1K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2023-01-04.
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.
16.3%
significant & substantial
4.1%
high negligence or reckless
16.3%
reasonably likely or greater
55.1%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 34.7% low, 61.2% moderate, 4.1% 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.
15 citations taken to the federal commission · 31% of citations on record
  • Settled 12 · 80%
  • Vacated or withdrawn 3 · 20%
50%
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 2 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
20%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$2K proposed, $1K 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 2019-11-20.
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 2014-81 Settlement Miller 2016 $400 → $300
YORK 2016-0149 Settlement Miller 2017 $342 → $342
YORK 2020-0025 Settlement 2020 $242 → $242
YORK 2017-0026 Settlement Rae 2017 $228 → $228
YORK 2018-0041 Withdrawal Rae 2018 $118 → $0
YORK 2012-84M Settlement Rae 2014 $100 → $100
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: 2023-01-04, 3 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
17
samples
7
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz9
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg8
Show the individual readings (17)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2023-01-04 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.25 Backhoe Operator
2023-01-04 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.14 Backhoe Operator
2021-05-18 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2016-08-04 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.24 0.54 0.44 Crusher Oper/Worker
2016-08-04 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.19 0.57 0.33 Truck Driver
2016-08-04 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.13 0.85 0.15 Truck Driver
2014-07-09 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.12 0.68 0.18 Crusher Oper/Worker
2014-07-09 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2014-07-09 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2011-11-29 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Dry Screen Plant Operator
2007-08-14 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2007-08-14 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2002-10-09 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.16 0.34 0.47 Truck Driver
2002-10-09 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.23 0.35 0.66 Truck Driver
2002-10-09 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.19 1.76 0.11 Crusher Oper/Worker
2002-10-09 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2002-10-09 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.

Portable Plant recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2000.

Injury rate, 2000
ⓘ This rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
No reportable injury cases in any year shown. Employee-hours were reported in each of those years, so these are true zeros rather than missing data. Citations, listed in the compliance record above, are inspector-found violations and are counted separately from worker injuries.
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 4.77 and the all-US-mining average was 5.64 cases per 100 workers.
In Maine, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.76 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Ownership history
  1. Crooker Construction, LLC 1986 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 0
2025 0
2024 0
2023 2
2022 1
2021 1
2020 8
2019 9
2018 8
2017 7
2016 6
2015 7
2014 6
2013 5
2012 6
2011 6
2010 7
2009 6
2008 5
2007 5
2006 5
2005 5
2004 5
2003 5
2002 3
2001 3
2000 12
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Portable Plant sits in Sagadahoc County, Maine, where the Census mining category is 0.2% 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.
Sagadahoc County, Maine · Population 37,093
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$82,080
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 0 0 0
2026 Q1 0 0 0
2025 Q4 0 0 0
2025 Q3 0 0 0
2025 Q2 0 0 0
2025 Q1 0 0 0
2024 Q4 0 0 0
2024 Q3 0 0 0
Show 97 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 0 0 0
2024 Q1 0 0 0
2023 Q4 0 0 0
2023 Q3 43 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 681 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 52 4 2 76923.1
2022 Q4 1,944 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 0 5 1
2022 Q2 4 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 0 0 0
2021 Q4 0 1 0
2021 Q3 0 0 0
2021 Q2 129 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 247 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 4,336 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 3,868 3 0 775.6
2020 Q2 3,528 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 964 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 3,811 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 4,242 2 0 471.5
2019 Q2 4,185 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 2,879 1 1 347.3
2018 Q4 3,566 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 3,757 2 0 532.3
2018 Q2 4,300 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 3,897 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 3,218 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 2,549 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 2,270 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 2,582 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 3,135 5 0 1594.9
2016 Q2 3,146 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 1,651 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 3,671 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 3,488 1 0 286.7
2015 Q2 3,137 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 1,537 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 3,692 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 3,080 1 0 324.7
2014 Q2 2,402 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 1,995 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 1,619 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 3,287 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 2,667 3 1 1124.9
2013 Q1 1,510 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 2,332 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 3,003 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 2,479 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 1,840 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 2,450 1 0 408.2
2011 Q3 3,630 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 2,484 1 0 402.6
2011 Q1 858 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 1,887 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 3,877 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 2,271 3 2 1321.0
2010 Q1 753 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 1,732 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 3,785 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 1,896 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 682 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 2,356 1 0 424.4
2008 Q3 3,618 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 3,316 4 0 1206.3
2008 Q1 717 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 1,866 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 3,816 1 1 262.1
2007 Q2 3,869 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 1,760 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 1,909 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 4,268 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 2,855 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 1,507 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 3,878 1 0 257.9
2005 Q3 4,213 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 2,278 1 0 439.0
2005 Q1 1,133 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 4,144 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 4,381 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 4,492 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 2,608 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 3,481 1 0 287.3
2003 Q3 2,359 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 2,061 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 668 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 2,020 4 0 1980.2
2002 Q3 2,094 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 1,988 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 796 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 2,346 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 2,539 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 2,773 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 880 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 12,198 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 13,130 3 0 228.5
2000 Q2 2,723 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 648 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2004 · 1 incident

May 6, 2004 ME · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Crooker Construction, LLC · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Sore elbows from general work activities.

1993 · 1 incident

May 4, 1993 ME · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Crooker Construction, LLC · Fall from ladders

EE WENT UP A LADDER ONTO THE SIDE OF A BIN TO CHECK FLOW OF MATERIAL INTO BIN AFTER REACHING A HEIGHT OF 6-8 FEET EE PASSED OUT AND FELL FROM LADDER ONTO A PAVED SURFACE RESULTING IN BROKEN RI B AND DISLOCATED COLLAR BONE.