Mining Incidents

Portable Unit #1 Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by James W Shaw
Alfred, York County, ME  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1700661

Portable Unit #1 has $2K 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 2001
21
citations
3
significant & substantial
$2,373
proposed penalties
$2,238
paid to date
94% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $135 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
30
inspections on record
242
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: 242 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 Unit #1 has $2K 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.
$2K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
21 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2023-05-15.
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
2025 Q4 2 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 2 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 2 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 2 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 2 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 40 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 24 0 0 0.0
Show 95 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 135 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 372 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 373 1 0 2681.0
2023 Q1 51 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 92 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 198 1 0 5050.5
2022 Q2 128 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 70 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 202 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 74 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 10 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 10 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 10 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 388 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 10 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 57 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 464 2 0 4310.3
2019 Q2 437 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 10 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 487 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 638 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 5 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 183 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 333 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 316 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 10 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 386 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 964 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 1,324 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 581 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 921 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1,322 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 1,007 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 698 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 776 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 737 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 0 0 0
2013 Q4 53 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 191 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 127 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 0 0 0
2012 Q4 518 1 1 1930.5
2012 Q3 751 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 766 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 114 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 530 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 702 2 1 2849.0
2011 Q2 623 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 386 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 494 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 770 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 713 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 0 0 0
2009 Q4 0 5 0
2009 Q3 0 0 0
2009 Q2 360 3 0 8333.3
2009 Q1 0 0 0
2008 Q4 448 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 615 1 0 1626.0
2008 Q2 710 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 0 0 0
2007 Q4 606 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 704 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 1,236 1 0 809.1
2007 Q1 613 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 605 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 723 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 713 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 167 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 697 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 801 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 710 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 640 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 2,074 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 1,498 2 1 1335.1
2004 Q2 1,487 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 613 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 641 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 1,185 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 1,315 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 527 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 621 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 646 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 688 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 1,094 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 655 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 670 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 1,472 2 0 1358.7
2001 Q1 627 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 656 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 740 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 790 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 630 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.

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The full compliance file on Portable Unit #1

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.