Mining Incidents

Ashdown Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Marketta Ashdown
Cedar City, Iron County, UT  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 4201928

Ashdown Pit has $44K in proposed MSHA penalties and $3K outstanding across 0 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 2000
189
citations
59
significant & substantial
$43,722
proposed penalties
$40,464
paid to date
93% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $3,258 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
53
inspections on record
787
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: 787 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Ashdown Pit has $44K in proposed MSHA penalties and $3K outstanding across 0 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.
$44K
proposed penalties
$44K
current assessed
$40K
paid to date
$3K
outstanding
188 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-03-24.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
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
2025 Q4 24 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 30 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 20 15 4 750000.0
2025 Q1 560 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 476 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 226 2 0 8849.6
2024 Q2 160 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 378 0 0 0.0
Show 96 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 241 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 274 4 0 14598.5
2023 Q2 220 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 98 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 373 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 324 2 0 6172.8
2022 Q2 373 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 84 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 457 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 504 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 501 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 86 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 243 3 1 12345.7
2020 Q3 408 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 103 5 0 48543.7
2020 Q1 364 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 293 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 400 3 0 7500.0
2019 Q2 494 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 15 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 310 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 524 18 6 34351.1
2018 Q2 296 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 15 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 244 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 470 4 0 8510.6
2017 Q2 342 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 70 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 108 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 349 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 242 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 54 7 4 129629.6
2015 Q4 218 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 424 5 2 11792.5
2015 Q2 768 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 520 1 0 1923.1
2014 Q4 623 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 822 4 2 4866.2
2014 Q2 540 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 520 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 560 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 897 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 971 16 11 16477.9
2013 Q1 42 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 340 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 1,040 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 500 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 168 1 0 5952.4
2011 Q4 451 1 0 2217.3
2011 Q3 560 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 566 11 7 19434.6
2011 Q1 259 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 800 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 1,391 1 0 718.9
2010 Q2 856 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 453 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 787 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 1,382 3 0 2170.8
2009 Q2 1,000 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 500 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 925 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 2,096 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 1,862 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 708 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 1,609 5 1 3107.5
2007 Q3 2,455 10 4 4073.3
2007 Q2 2,387 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 1,276 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 1,838 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 1,523 7 5 4596.2
2006 Q2 1,488 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 1,032 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 1,466 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 1,493 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 1,734 13 1 7497.1
2005 Q1 1,374 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 520 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 1,120 4 1 3571.4
2004 Q2 1,045 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 1,120 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 1,138 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 1,694 7 3 4132.2
2003 Q2 1,120 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 480 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 840 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 1,305 3 2 2298.9
2002 Q2 1,560 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 480 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 560 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 1,558 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 1,176 11 2 9353.7
2001 Q1 450 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 526 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 1,763 11 3 6239.4
2000 Q2 1,436 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 1,261 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.

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The full compliance file on Ashdown Pit

A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.