Mining Incidents

Simpson Pit Metal/Non-Metal

TIVERTON, Newport County, RI  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3700187

Simpson Pit has $17K in proposed MSHA penalties and $16K 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
83
citations
24
significant & substantial
$17,046
proposed penalties
$808
paid to date
5% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $16,238 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
28
inspections on record
304
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: 304 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Simpson Pit has $17K in proposed MSHA penalties and $16K 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.
$17K
proposed penalties
$17K
current assessed
$808
paid to date
$16K
outstanding
70 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2010-07-07.
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
2009 Q4 0 0 0
2009 Q3 0 0 0
2009 Q2 0 1 1
2009 Q1 192 4 1 20833.3
2008 Q4 0 0 0
2008 Q3 2,200 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 935 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 322 0 0 0.0
Show 28 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2007 Q4 1,719 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 1,653 8 2 4839.7
2007 Q2 957 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 815 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 1,762 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 1,819 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 1,847 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 1,254 7 4 5582.1
2005 Q4 2,295 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 1,503 7 4 4657.4
2005 Q2 1,987 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 1,261 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 2,479 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 3,188 1 0 313.7
2004 Q2 2,181 3 0 1375.5
2004 Q1 3,464 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 5,660 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 6,036 2 0 331.3
2003 Q2 5,066 3 2 592.2
2003 Q1 3,279 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 3,970 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 3,991 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 4,755 7 1 1472.1
2002 Q1 1,942 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 2,278 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 4,961 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 8,660 6 1 692.8
2001 Q1 3,021 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.

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