Mining Incidents

Searsport Wash Plant: 2 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Lane Industries Inc
SEARSPORT, Waldo County, ME  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1700695

Searsport Wash Plant has $120 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 2005
2
citations
0
significant & substantial
$120
proposed penalties
$120
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
11
inspections on record
87
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: 87 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Searsport Wash Plant has $120 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.
$120
proposed penalties
$120
current assessed
$120
paid to date
$0
outstanding
2 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2005-09-15.
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.
Ownership history
  1. Lane Construction Corp 2000 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2008 1
2007 2
2006 2
2005 3
2004 2
2003 2
2002 3
2001 4
2000 4
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Searsport Wash Plant sits in Waldo 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.
Waldo County, Maine · Population 40,006
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$68,441
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
2008 Q3 0 0 0
2008 Q2 0 0 0
2008 Q1 37 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 0 0 0
2007 Q3 878 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 70 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 45 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 177 0 0 0.0
Show 23 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2006 Q3 416 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 236 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 0 0 0
2005 Q4 1,246 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 388 2 0 5154.6
2005 Q2 356 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 36 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 123 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 227 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 258 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 0 0 0
2003 Q4 201 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 304 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 465 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 14 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 318 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 391 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 405 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 0 0 0
2001 Q4 232 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 855 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 452 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 423 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.