Mining Incidents

Washington Pit #2 Metal/Non-Metal

Jake Barbour, Inc. · Surface
Controlled by John (Jake) E Barbour
Washington, Knox County, ME  ·  Temporarily Idled
MSHA Mine ID: 1700119

Washington Pit #2 has $21K in proposed MSHA penalties and $5K outstanding across 6 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 2010
71
citations
20
significant & substantial
$21,217
proposed penalties
$10,371
paid to date
49% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $10,846 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2010
35
inspections on record
423
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: 423 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Washington Pit #2 has $21K in proposed MSHA penalties and $5K outstanding across 6 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
$15K
current assessed
$10K
paid to date
$5K
outstanding
70 assessments are final orders; 6 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-01-14.
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 0 0 0
2025 Q1 520 1 0 1923.1
2024 Q4 540 1 0 1851.9
2024 Q3 1,105 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 975 4 0 4102.6
2024 Q1 1,443 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 1,420 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 1,640 2 1 1219.5
Show 50 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q2 1,340 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 1,680 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 1,570 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,780 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,670 1 1 598.8
2022 Q1 1,650 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1,655 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,850 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 1,755 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 550 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 1,710 2 0 1169.6
2020 Q3 1,750 4 2 2285.7
2020 Q2 1,650 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 1,760 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 1,890 2 0 1058.2
2019 Q3 1,975 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 1,655 2 1 1208.5
2019 Q1 780 2 0 2564.1
2018 Q4 1,560 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,850 4 1 2162.2
2018 Q2 1,755 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 945 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 1,630 1 0 613.5
2017 Q3 1,795 8 2 4456.8
2017 Q2 1,945 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 975 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 1,340 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 1,850 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 1,225 4 1 3265.3
2016 Q1 910 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 830 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1,340 16 8 11940.3
2015 Q2 585 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 494 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 790 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 870 2 0 2298.9
2014 Q2 520 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 0 0 0
2013 Q4 120 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 135 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 450 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 160 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 180 1 0 5555.6
2012 Q3 560 5 0 8928.6
2012 Q2 510 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 325 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 220 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 180 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 180 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 420 9 3 21428.6

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 Washington Pit #2

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.