Mining Incidents

Savage Contracting Inc: 22 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Savage Contracting Inc · Surface
Controlled by Ronald W Savage
Bethel, Oxford County, ME  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1700717

Savage Contracting Inc has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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 2001
22
citations
6
significant & substantial
$3,170
proposed penalties
$3,170
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
14
inspections on record
159
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: 159 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Savage Contracting Inc has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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.
$3K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
22 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-06-02.
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.
27.3%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
27.3%
reasonably likely or greater
50.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 27.3% low, 72.7% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, 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: 2022-09-07, 4 years ago
2
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg2
Show the individual readings (2)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2022-09-07 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2003-11-06 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. Savage Contracting Inc 2001 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 2
2025 2
2024 2
2023 3
2022 3
2021 3
2007 2
2006 2
2005 3
2004 3
2003 2
2002 3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Savage Contracting Inc sits in Oxford County, Maine, where the Census mining category is 0.1% 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.
Oxford County, Maine · Population 58,728
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$57,933
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 442 5 1 11312.2
2026 Q1 48 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 246 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 357 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 470 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 52 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 302 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 369 0 0 0.0
Show 36 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 457 1 0 2188.2
2024 Q1 52 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 127 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 370 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 219 1 0 4566.2
2023 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 240 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,047 1 0 955.1
2022 Q2 725 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 80 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 348 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 313 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 173 9 3 52023.1
2007 Q3 210 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 34 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 0 0 0
2006 Q4 250 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 770 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 330 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 0 0 0
2005 Q4 1,020 1 1 980.4
2005 Q3 2,210 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 1,080 2 0 1851.9
2005 Q1 24 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 1,090 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 1,090 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 1,045 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 142 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 714 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 880 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 160 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 0 0 0
2002 Q4 380 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 520 1 1 1923.1
2002 Q2 508 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 200 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.