Mining Incidents

Portable Plant - Pegson Jaw: 54 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

R Pepin & Sons Inc. · Surface
Controlled by David Pepin
Sanford, York County, ME  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1700854

Portable Plant - Pegson Jaw has $22K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 3 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 2010
54
citations
23
significant & substantial
$22,365
proposed penalties
$21,205
paid to date
95% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,160 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2010
25
inspections on record
281
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: 281 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 - Pegson Jaw has $22K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 3 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.
$22K
proposed penalties
$21K
current assessed
$21K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
54 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
Of $13K in penalties contested before the Commission, $12K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-05-01.
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.
42.6%
significant & substantial
16.7%
high negligence or reckless
42.6%
reasonably likely or greater
50.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 14.8% low, 68.5% moderate, 16.7% 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.
11 citations taken to the federal commission · 20% of citations on record
  • Settled 11 · 100%
100%
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 11 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
9%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$13K proposed, $12K 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 2014-09-15.
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 2012-257M Settlement Lesnick 2013 $10K → $10K
YORK 2014-0198 Settlement Gill 2014 $2K → $946
YORK 2012-258M Settlement Lesnick 2013 $860 → $860
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: 2024-05-01
6
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg5
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (6)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2024-05-01 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2021-08-25 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2016-04-08 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2016-04-08 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.13 Front-end Loader Operator
2010-10-07 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
2010-10-07 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. R Pepin & Sons Inc. 2010 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 3
2025 3
2024 3
2023 3
2022 2
2021 3
2020 3
2019 3
2018 3
2017 3
2016 3
2015 3
2014 3
2013 7
2012 7
2011 7
2010 6
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Portable Plant - Pegson Jaw sits in York 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.
York County, Maine · Population 214,731
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$82,904
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 1,090 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 485 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 485 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 245 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 490 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 725 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 581 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 905 0 0 0.0
Show 55 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 293 1 0 3413.0
2024 Q1 485 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 490 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 365 3 2 8219.2
2023 Q2 245 1 0 4081.6
2023 Q1 725 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 485 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 275 3 0 10909.1
2022 Q2 325 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 905 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 485 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 645 3 1 4651.2
2021 Q2 405 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 485 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 205 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 815 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 325 4 0 12307.7
2020 Q1 123 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 645 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 365 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 123 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 965 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 565 1 0 1769.9
2018 Q3 365 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 1,210 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 965 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 365 2 1 5479.5
2017 Q3 365 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 245 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 725 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 945 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 603 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 1,245 2 1 1606.4
2016 Q1 965 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 325 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 515 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 1,220 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 783 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 1,625 1 1 615.4
2014 Q2 160 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 815 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 3,380 6 2 1775.1
2013 Q3 3,809 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 2,857 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 30 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 735 5 1 6802.7
2012 Q3 4,454 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 2,865 14 10 4886.6
2012 Q1 610 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 1,939 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 3,007 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 780 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 2,630 6 2 2281.4
2010 Q3 2,963 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 1,868 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.