Mining Incidents

Read Custom Soils Pit #96 Metal/Non-Metal

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.
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 456 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 541 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 414 2 0 4830.9
2025 Q1 444 2 0 4504.5
2024 Q4 483 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 531 1 0 1883.2
2024 Q2 622 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 454 0 0 0.0
Show 2 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
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.

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