Mining Incidents

Town Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Town Of Litchfield · Surface
Controlled by Town Of Litchfield-Me
Litchfield, Kennebec County, ME  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1700475

Town Pit has $1K 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 2013
13
citations
1
significant & substantial
$1,395
proposed penalties
$1,395
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2013
12
inspections on record
105
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: 105 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Town Pit has $1K 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.
$1K
proposed penalties
$1K
current assessed
$1K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
13 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2018-08-09.
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
2018 Q1 90 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 20 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 160 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 20 1 0 50000.0
2015 Q4 20 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 130 4 0 30769.2
2015 Q2 80 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 20 0 0 0.0
Show 7 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2014 Q4 20 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 135 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 10 1 0 100000.0
2014 Q1 0 0 0
2013 Q4 5 1 1 200000.0
2013 Q3 32 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 60 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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A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.