Mining Incidents

Swasey Excavation Metal/Non-Metal

Steve Swasey, Inc. · Surface
Controlled by Steven J Swasey
Andover, Oxford County, ME  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1700943

Swasey Excavation has $6K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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
53
citations
10
significant & substantial
$6,379
proposed penalties
$6,379
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2014
17
inspections on record
323
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: 323 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Swasey Excavation has $6K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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.
$6K
proposed penalties
$6K
current assessed
$6K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
43 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-08-06.
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 2,843 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 4,001 4 3 999.8
2025 Q2 3,350 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 510 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 3,135 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 3,990 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 3,501 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 429 0 0 0.0
Show 38 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 2,225 2 0 898.9
2023 Q3 3,242 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 3,125 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 594 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 2,157 5 1 2318.0
2022 Q3 3,025 1 0 330.6
2022 Q2 2,381 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 5 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1,619 3 0 1853.0
2021 Q3 2,810 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 3,168 1 0 315.7
2021 Q1 5 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 2,042 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 3,185 1 0 314.0
2020 Q2 1,608 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 136 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 1,921 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 2,621 4 1 1526.1
2019 Q2 2,048 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 1,125 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 3,230 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 2,076 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 20 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 1,848 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 3,256 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 392 5 0 12755.1
2017 Q1 5 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 2,288 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 2,776 6 1 2161.4
2016 Q2 2,239 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 525 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 1,212 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 2,171 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 1,443 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 39 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 1,358 2 0 1472.8
2014 Q3 1,983 10 2 5042.9

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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