Mining Incidents

West Bethel Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Calvin J Coleman
West Bethel, Oxford County, ME  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 1701069

West Bethel 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 2022
10
citations
2
significant & substantial
$1,389
proposed penalties
$1,389
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2022
5
inspections on record
59
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: 59 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

West Bethel 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
10 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2023-11-29.
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 Q3 1 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 394 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 0 0 0
2024 Q4 0 0 0
2024 Q3 629 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 705 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 0 0 0
2023 Q4 466 1 0 2145.9
Show 6 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q3 701 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 661 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 0 1 0
2022 Q4 683 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 590 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 587 8 2 13628.6

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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