Mining Incidents

Winsor Pit: 18 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Don Snow Trucking Inc · Surface
Controlled by Donald Snow
PORT CRANE, Broome County, NY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3002850

Winsor Pit has $2K 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 2001
18
citations
5
significant & substantial
$1,988
proposed penalties
$1,988
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
19
inspections on record
144
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: 144 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Winsor Pit has $2K 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.
$2K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
18 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $100 in penalties contested before the Commission, $100 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2011-10-25.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
27.8%
significant & substantial
5.6%
high negligence or reckless
27.8%
reasonably likely or greater
38.9%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 5.6% low, 88.9% moderate, 5.6% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
When citations were contested
Contesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
1 citations taken to the federal commission · 6% of citations on record
  • Settled 1 · 100%
0%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$100 proposed, $100 after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2011-12-27.
Contested penalties
A reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.
Largest penalties this mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
YORK 2012-71M Settlement Lesnick 2012 $100 → $100
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.
Health sampling
A sample is a point in time compliance measurement, not an individual exposure history. These figures describe MSHA sampling records and do not establish causation or personal dose.

Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
Many samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.

Last sampled: 2011-05-25, 15 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
2
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (2)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2011-05-25 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.19 0.4 0.48 Front-end Loader Operator
2002-04-11 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.34 Front-end Loader Operator
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly. Metal/nonmetal contaminant figures come from MSHA's Personal Health Samples and Area Samples files (public record), updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. Don Snow Trucking Inc 1988 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2013 0
2012 0
2011 1
2010 2
2009 1
2008 1
2007 2
2006 1
2005 2
2004 2
2003 1
2002 2
2001 2
2000 1
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Winsor Pit sits in Broome County, New York, where the Census mining category is 0.1% of county employment.

Local economic context
County figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.
Broome County, New York · Population 197,738
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$61,059
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
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
2013 Q1 0 0 0
2012 Q4 0 0 0
2012 Q3 0 0 0
2012 Q2 0 0 0
2012 Q1 0 0 0
2011 Q4 592 1 0 1689.2
2011 Q3 488 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 425 1 0 2352.9
Show 39 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2011 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q4 513 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 958 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 1,330 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 757 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 754 1 0 1326.3
2009 Q3 765 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 528 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 186 3 1 16129.0
2008 Q4 541 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 475 2 1 4210.5
2008 Q2 0 0 0
2008 Q1 586 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 830 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 1,243 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 648 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 985 2 1 2030.5
2005 Q3 1,122 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 1,053 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 599 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 1,188 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 1,158 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 736 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 626 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 809 4 1 4944.4
2003 Q3 711 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 447 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 111 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 630 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 676 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 1,274 1 0 784.9
2002 Q1 1,108 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 1,215 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 1,258 1 0 794.9
2001 Q2 1,273 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 78 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 533 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 832 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 808 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.