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Desert Mound Metal/Non-Metal

Southwest Grading and Paving LLC · Surface

Controlled by Nathan Janes; Keith Gilbert

Cedar City, Iron County, UT · Active

MSHA Mine ID: 4202756

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 1
Years on record: 2025
Latest incident: Aug 2025

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2024

citations

significant & substantial

$33,784

proposed penalties

$1,904

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 Q3	5,416	10	5	1846.4
2025 Q2	4,783	9	4	1881.7
2025 Q1	2,715	0	0	0.0
2024 Q4	3,646	0	0	0.0
2024 Q3	3,007	10	3	3325.6
2024 Q2	1,805	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

1 on file

2025 · 1 incident

August 27, 2025 UT · Metal/Non-Metal rotary bucket excavator operator MACHINERY

Southwest Grading and Paving LLC · Fall from machine

The excavator employee was running started to tram forward and would not stop after they let off the controls. Employee made the choice to unbuckle their seat belt and jump out of the moving machine. They went to urgent car and has a fractured foot.