Mining Incidents

Ross Hill Metal/Non-Metal

Len Poulin Inc. · Surface
Controlled by Leonard D Poulin Jr
Smithfield, Somerset County, ME  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1700941

Ross Hill has $10K in proposed MSHA penalties and $9K 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 2014
69
citations
17
significant & substantial
$10,329
proposed penalties
$1,036
paid to date
10% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $9,293 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2014
23
inspections on record
256
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: 256 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Ross Hill has $10K in proposed MSHA penalties and $9K 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.
$10K
proposed penalties
$10K
current assessed
$1K
paid to date
$9K
outstanding
67 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-10-02.
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 120 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 120 9 2 75000.0
2024 Q3 140 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 660 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 455 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 461 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 468 0 0 0.0
Show 30 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2022 Q2 450 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 325 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 423 3 0 7092.2
2021 Q3 461 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 464 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 201 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 78 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 315 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 213 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 336 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 500 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 478 1 0 2092.1
2019 Q2 602 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 366 1 0 2732.2
2018 Q3 641 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 645 1 0 1550.4
2018 Q1 125 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 413 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 277 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 204 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 417 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 582 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 650 19 7 29230.8
2016 Q1 286 2 0 6993.0
2015 Q4 622 2 0 3215.4
2015 Q3 648 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 612 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 154 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 423 12 6 28368.8

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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