Mining Incidents

Searsport Wash Plant: 7 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Searsport, Waldo County, ME  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1701022

Searsport Wash Plant has $796 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 2019
7
citations
0
significant & substantial
$796
proposed penalties
$796
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2019
10
inspections on record
74
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: 74 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 $796 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.
$796
proposed penalties
$796
current assessed
$796
paid to date
$0
outstanding
6 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2023-08-17.
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
14.3%
high negligence or reckless
0.0%
reasonably likely or greater
28.6%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 57.1% low, 28.6% moderate, 14.3% 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: 2019-10-08, 6 years ago
1
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (1)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2019-10-08 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. Owen J. Folsom, Inc. 2019 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 1
2025 2
2024 2
2023 2
2022 2
2021 2
2020 3
2019 2
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
2026 Q2 0 1 0
2026 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 248 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 66 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 107 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 386 0 0 0.0
Show 21 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 129 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 167 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 221 3 0 13574.7
2023 Q2 125 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 308 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 186 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 171 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 106 1 0 9434.0
2021 Q3 59 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 28 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 150 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 91 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 263 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 284 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 210 2 0 9523.8
2019 Q3 166 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 130 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.