Mining Incidents

WASHPLANT 5 Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Summit Materials LLC
Moab, Grand County, UT  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 4201736

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
5
Years on record
2007–2014
Latest incident
Jul 2014
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
89
citations
15
significant & substantial
$17,681
proposed penalties
$17,681
paid to date
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Quarterly safety rates
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2025 Q4 688 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 4,338 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 758 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 310 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 430 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 245 1 0 4081.6
2024 Q2 716 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 0 0 0
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

5 on file

2014 · 1 incident

July 29, 2014 UT · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Le Grand Johnson Construction Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Checking the vent for an obstruction, but didn't have the fan off, and finger got hit by the fan blade.

2012 · 1 incident

2009 · 1 incident

2007 · 2 incidents

August 2, 2007 UT · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator MACHINERY
Le Grand Johnson Construction Company · Struck by flying object

Employee was using a disc grinder and something got in his left eye. He was wearing safety glasses at the time of the accident. His eye continued to get worse and finally went to the Dr on the 7th.

May 3, 2007 UT · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Le Grand Johnson Construction Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was repairing a conveyor belt and was hammering a pin through a hole and hit his left hand with the hammer. He went to the ER and got stitches.