Mining Incidents

Trombley Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Geraldine A Trombley
Limestone, Aroostook County, ME  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1700607

Trombley Pit has $21K in proposed MSHA penalties and $4K outstanding across 3 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 2000
122
citations
43
significant & substantial
$20,509
proposed penalties
$13,012
paid to date
63% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $7,497 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
28
inspections on record
370
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: 370 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Trombley Pit has $21K in proposed MSHA penalties and $4K outstanding across 3 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.
$21K
proposed penalties
$17K
current assessed
$13K
paid to date
$4K
outstanding
118 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-08-07.
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
2025 Q4 182 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 885 2 0 2259.9
2025 Q2 211 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 174 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 679 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 375 1 0 2666.7
2024 Q1 3 0 0 0.0
Show 86 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 404 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 970 1 0 1030.9
2023 Q2 551 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 220 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 736 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 443 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 366 3 1 8196.7
2021 Q3 1,381 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 1,200 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 340 2 0 5882.4
2020 Q3 3,100 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 2,380 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 1,127 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 435 4 0 9195.4
2019 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 1,145 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,017 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 480 1 0 2083.3
2018 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 685 7 2 10219.0
2017 Q3 865 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 556 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 234 2 0 8547.0
2016 Q3 691 5 0 7235.9
2016 Q2 546 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 0 0 0
2015 Q4 316 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 526 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 609 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 0 0 0
2014 Q4 220 3 1 13636.4
2014 Q3 459 3 1 6535.9
2014 Q2 366 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 290 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 419 2 0 4773.3
2013 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 705 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 453 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 451 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 790 7 3 8860.8
2011 Q2 440 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q4 376 12 4 31914.9
2010 Q3 706 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 585 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 1 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 369 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 1,061 6 1 5655.0
2009 Q2 373 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 0 0 0
2008 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 641 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 471 2 0 4246.3
2008 Q1 0 0 0
2007 Q4 381 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 770 1 0 1298.7
2007 Q2 341 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 0 0 0
2006 Q4 358 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 605 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 0 0 0
2005 Q4 911 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 2,060 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 1,736 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 0 0 0
2004 Q4 675 4 1 5925.9
2004 Q3 2,045 9 3 4401.0
2004 Q2 1,276 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 0 0 0
2003 Q4 647 1 0 1545.6
2003 Q3 2,064 6 2 2907.0
2003 Q2 2,201 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 40 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 468 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 0 0 0
2001 Q3 2,709 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 1,597 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 0 0 0
2000 Q2 1,217 34 24 27937.6
2000 Q1 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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The full compliance file on Trombley Pit

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.