Data / Mines / Maine / Searsport Wash Plant
Searsport Wash Plant, Waldo County, Maine: 3 MSHA citations
Updated November 6, 2026. Source: US Department of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), Open Government Data Sets.
Searsport Wash Plant is a temporarily idled construction sand and gravel surface mine in Waldo County, Maine, operated by Owen J Folsom Inc with 0 employees on MSHA's record (mine ID 1701022). Since January 1, 2022 MSHA inspectors issued 3 citations and orders there with $429 in proposed penalties, and 0 accident reports were filed there, with no injury or illness cases.
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- MSHA mine ID
- 1701022
- Status
- Temporarily Idled since June 17, 2026
- Main commodity
- Construction sand and gravel
- Mine type
- Surface
- County
- Waldo County, Maine
- Nearest town
- Searsport
- Operator
- Owen J Folsom Inc
- Employees
- 0
- MSHA field office
- Portsmouth NH Field Office
- Citations and orders since January 1, 2022
- 3
- Significant and substantial
- 0 (0.0%)
- Closure orders
- 0
- High negligence or reckless
- 1
- Proposed penalties
- $429
- Amount paid so far
- $429
- Inspections
- 5
- Inspector hours on site
- 7
- Citations per inspection
- 0.60 (all mines 2.30)
- Accident reports
- 0
- Injury and illness cases
- 0
- Fatalities
- 0
- Latest MSHA record
- June 17, 2026
Citations and injury cases by year
Calendar years since 2022; 2026 runs to the date of the MSHA files.
| Year | Citations and orders | Significant and substantial | Proposed penalties | Injury and illness cases |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 3 | 0 | $429 | 0 |
Standards cited most at Searsport Wash Plant
Sections of Title 30 of the Code of Federal Regulations named on the citations, with the part each belongs to.
| Standard | What the part covers | Citations |
|---|---|---|
| 30 CFR 56.14103 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
| 30 CFR 56.11001 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
| 30 CFR 56.14100 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
Other open mines in Waldo County, Maine
| Mine | Operator | County | Main commodity | Employees | Citations since 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winterport Pit | Hughes Brothers Incorp | Waldo County, ME | Construction sand and gravel | 4 | 25 |
| Prospect Crushing Plant | General Contractor Vaughn D. Thibodeau II, Inc. | Waldo County, ME | Construction sand and gravel | 3 | 24 |
| Round Stone | A&m Redimix Inc | Waldo County, ME | Construction sand and gravel | 2 | 22 |
| Belfast Pit and Mill | State Sand & Gravel Inc | Waldo County, ME | Construction sand and gravel | 12 | 13 |
| Round Stone-2 | A&m Redimix Inc | Waldo County, ME | Construction sand and gravel | 1 | 10 |
| Reed Screen R-210 | Wardwell Construction & Trucking Corp. | Waldo County, ME | Construction sand and gravel | 1 | 8 |
| Davis Pit | Davis Dirt Works LLC | Waldo County, ME | Construction sand and gravel | 8 | 6 |
| Metso Portable Crusher #2 | Hughes Brothers Incorp | Waldo County, ME | Construction sand and gravel | 2 | 6 |
| Erin Portable Power Crusher | Wardwell Construction & Trucking Corp. | Waldo County, ME | Construction sand and gravel | 1 | 5 |
| Portable Sandvik Screener | Hughes Brothers Incorp | Waldo County, ME | Construction sand and gravel | 1 | 4 |
| PMD | Stockton Sand & Gravel | Waldo County, ME | Construction sand and gravel | 2 | 3 |
| Belfast Quarry | Eurovia Atlantic Coast LLC | Waldo County, ME | Crushed, broken stone | 2 | 2 |
| Mosquito Mountain Quarry | Freshwater Stone & Brick Inc | Waldo County, ME | Dimension granite | 2 | 1 |
| Screen Plant 1 | Clisham Construction, LLC | Waldo County, ME | Construction sand and gravel | 2 | 0 |
| Sorey Road Pit | General Contractor Vaughn D. Thibodeau II, Inc. | Waldo County, ME | Construction sand and gravel | 2 | 0 |
US government work, public domain. Counts come from the MSHA files published on November 6, 2026. An open mine is one MSHA lists as Active, Intermittent, New Mine, Temporarily Idled or NonProducing; 13,673 were open that day. Citations, penalties, inspections and accident reports run from January 1, 2022. A citation is an inspector's allegation and an operator can contest it; the penalty is the amount MSHA first proposed, before any contest or settlement. An operator is the legal entity MSHA assesses, and a parent company is its controller. Mines run by sole proprietors or by individuals are counted in every total and are not named. This page uses MSHA data and is not endorsed or certified by MSHA. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.