Mining Incidents

BRC Wellington LLC Coal

BRC Wellington LLC · Facility
Controlled by DB RC Investments II LLC
Price, Carbon County, UT  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4202398

Watch this mine

Email me when a new MSHA incident is filed at BRC Wellington LLC.

Fatalities
0
Total incidents
6
Years on record
2010–2015
Latest incident
Jan 2015
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2006
37
citations
7
significant & substantial
$5,012
proposed penalties
$4,068
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
2018 Q1 2,174 2 0 920.0
2017 Q4 2,950 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 4,632 1 0 215.9
2017 Q2 4,380 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 5,316 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 2,813 5 1 1777.5
2016 Q3 3,164 3 0 948.2
2016 Q2 1,494 0 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

6 on file

2015 · 1 incident

January 12, 2015 UT · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT
BRC Wellington LLC · Struck against stationary object

Employee was the loader operator on shift. As he was getting down from the loader he stepped on a rock or uneven ground, therefore spraining his ankle.

2014 · 1 incident

August 4, 2014 UT · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
BRC Wellington LLC · Over-exertion in lifting objects

Employee was lifting a jig hood that was too heavy. He had lower back pain.

2011 · 2 incidents

March 13, 2011 UT · Coal prep plant foreman, supervisor, mill plant supervisor, kiln supervisor MACHINERY
Covol Engineered Fuels LLC · Flash burns (welding)

EE was replacing a wear liner in #1 jig feed bin. As he was welding it in, the polished steel was reflecting back into the hood from the sides and behind him causing the arc burn to his eyes.

February 7, 2011 UT · Coal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Covol Engineered Fuels LLC · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE was removing the hydraulic rams from an old crusher and was using a hammer to drive out the pins holding it in place. He missed the pin, hitting is left wrist with the hammer.

2010 · 2 incidents

October 9, 2010 UT · Coal prep plant foreman, supervisor, mill plant supervisor, kiln supervisor HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Covol Engineered Fuels LLC · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

Bag house #1 tube had coal fines builing up and falling down chunks into the Jig, EE was reaching in and pulling out the chunks of coal fines and strained his neck.

January 27, 2010 UT · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman MACHINERY
Covol Engineered Fuels LLC · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE had finshed lunch and went up in the plant to clean out the #1 baghouse hopper with an air lance which is a air hose with a 1/2 inch pipe hooked to it with a ball valve to turn air on and off with the valve. EE was removing the lance from the hopper it hit him in the mouth knocking out a lower front tooth. The ball valve is what struck him knocking the tooth out.