Mining Incidents

PRZEKOPSKI SAND & GRAVEL & FARM: 1 recorded fatality Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Leonard Przekopski Jr
COLCHESTER, New London County, CT  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0600647

PRZEKOPSKI SAND & GRAVEL & FARM has $160 in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
1
Total incidents
1
Years on record
1995
Latest incident
Aug 1995
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2005
2
citations
0
significant & substantial
$160
proposed penalties
$160
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
18
inspections on record
177
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: 177 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

PRZEKOPSKI SAND & GRAVEL & FARM has $160 in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 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.
$160
proposed penalties
$160
current assessed
$160
paid to date
$0
outstanding
2 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
Of $155 in penalties contested before the Commission, $100 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2007-06-05.
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.
0.0%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
0.0%
reasonably likely or greater
50.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 100.0% moderate, 0.0% 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.
1 citations taken to the federal commission · 50% of citations on record
  • Stood as issued 1 · 100%
0%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$100 proposed, $100 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 2009-10-14.
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 2010-12M Dismissal Lewis 2011 $100 → $100
YORK20030058M Dismissal Barbour 2003 $55 → $0
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: 2004-02-05, 22 years ago
1
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (1)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2004-02-05 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. Przekopski Sand Gravel & Farm 1995 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2009 1
2008 4
2007 5
2006 3
2005 3
2004 3
2003 3
2002 3
2001 2
2000 3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, 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
2009 Q3 53 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 3 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 0 0 0
2008 Q4 447 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 841 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 848 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 773 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 935 0 0 0.0
Show 27 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2007 Q3 730 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 876 1 0 1141.6
2006 Q1 576 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 586 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 544 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 585 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 570 1 0 1754.4
2004 Q4 665 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 588 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 598 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 564 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 570 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 583 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 577 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 537 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 597 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 584 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 582 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 584 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 580 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 611 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 569 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 484 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 627 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 573 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 574 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 517 0 0 0.0

Fatalities at this mine

1 recorded
August 3, 1995 CT · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Przekopski Sand Gravel & Farm · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

WORKER OPERATING FRONT END LOADER TO PLACE MATERIAL FOR A BERM NEXT TO AN OPEN PIT 12' DEEP, GOT TOO CLOSE AND THE PIT WALL COLLAPSED OVERTURNING THE LOADER AND KILLING THE OPERATOR.