Mining Incidents

PORTABLE PLANT Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Vincent Maietta
SCARBOROUGH, Cumberland County, ME  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1700657

PORTABLE PLANT has $38K in proposed MSHA penalties and $26K outstanding across 5 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
75
citations
21
significant & substantial
$37,996
proposed penalties
$8,337
paid to date
22% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $29,659 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
32
inspections on record
404
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: 404 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 $38K in proposed MSHA penalties and $26K outstanding across 5 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.
$38K
proposed penalties
$34K
current assessed
$8K
paid to date
$26K
outstanding
75 assessments are final orders; 5 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2010-11-10.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
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
2011 Q2 25 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 30 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 2,399 7 1 2917.9
2010 Q3 2,589 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 1,785 7 0 3921.6
2010 Q1 420 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 3,607 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 16 11 5 687500.0
Show 38 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2009 Q2 4,486 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 3,804 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 4,504 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 5,174 7 5 1352.9
2008 Q2 6,021 4 0 664.3
2008 Q1 3,319 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 4,801 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 6,932 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 4,653 6 0 1289.5
2007 Q1 3,843 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 4,554 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 4,168 2 1 479.8
2006 Q2 5,663 8 2 1412.7
2006 Q1 660 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 520 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 709 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 1,360 3 2 2205.9
2005 Q1 1,545 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 821 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 774 1 0 1292.0
2004 Q2 3,148 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 0 0 0
2003 Q4 951 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 1,800 2 1 1111.1
2003 Q2 1,628 3 1 1842.8
2003 Q1 1,366 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 5,550 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 5,917 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 6,146 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 5,951 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 5,071 6 2 1183.2
2001 Q3 5,201 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 4,550 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 520 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 2,938 7 1 2382.6
2000 Q3 1,963 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 3,155 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 3,622 1 0 276.1

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.

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The full compliance file on PORTABLE PLANT

A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.