Mining Incidents

Read Custom Soils Pit #96: 8 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Read Custom Soils LLC · Surface
Westford, Middlesex County, MA  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 1901318

Read Custom Soils Pit #96 has $1K in proposed MSHA penalties and $319 outstanding across 0 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 2023
8
citations
1
significant & substantial
$1,209
proposed penalties
$890
paid to date
74% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $319 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2023
7
inspections on record
47
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: 47 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Read Custom Soils Pit #96 has $1K in proposed MSHA penalties and $319 outstanding across 0 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.
$1K
proposed penalties
$1K
current assessed
$890
paid to date
$319
outstanding
8 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-05-09.
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.
12.5%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
12.5%
reasonably likely or greater
25.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 62.5% low, 37.5% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. Read Custom Soils LLC 2023 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 1
2025 1
2024 1
2023 1
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Read Custom Soils Pit #96 sits in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, where the Census mining category is 0.0% 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.
Middlesex County, Massachusetts · Population 1,622,896
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$126,779
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 610 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 423 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 456 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 541 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 414 2 0 4830.9
2025 Q1 444 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 483 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 531 1 0 1883.2
Show 4 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 622 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 454 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 536 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 279 3 1 10752.7

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.