Mining Incidents

Brigham City South Pit: 34 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by CRH PLC
Brigham City, Box Elder County, UT  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4200377

Brigham City South Pit has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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
34
citations
8
significant & substantial
$5,376
proposed penalties
$5,376
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
28
inspections on record
277
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: 277 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Brigham City South Pit has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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.
$5K
proposed penalties
$5K
current assessed
$5K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
34 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $120 in penalties contested before the Commission, $120 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2004-09-15.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
23.5%
significant & substantial
8.8%
high negligence or reckless
23.5%
reasonably likely or greater
79.4%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 11.8% low, 79.4% moderate, 8.8% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Contested penalties
A reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.
Largest penalties this mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
WEST 2004-403M Dismissal Lesnick 2004 $120 → $120
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.
Health sampling
A sample is a point in time compliance measurement, not an individual exposure history. These figures describe MSHA sampling records and do not establish causation or personal dose.

Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
Many samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.

Last sampled: 2004-09-15, 21 years ago
50%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
4
samples
2
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz21 over
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg2
Show the individual readings (4)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2004-09-15 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.51 0.33 1.55 Front-end Loader Operator
2004-09-15 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.12 0.28 0.43 Crusher Oper/Worker
2004-09-15 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bulldozer Operator
2004-09-15 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly. Metal/nonmetal contaminant figures come from MSHA's Personal Health Samples and Area Samples files (public record), updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. Fife Rock Products Company Inc 1950 to 2005
  2. Staker & Parson Companies 2005 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2005 1
2004 6
2003 9
2002 7
2001 5
2000 6
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Brigham City South Pit sits in Box Elder County, Utah, where the Census mining category is 1.1% of county employment.

Local economic context
County figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.
Box Elder County, Utah · Population 59,725
1.1%
Mining share of county employment
$77,865
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
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
2005 Q3 0 0 0
2005 Q2 0 0 0
2005 Q1 731 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 2,623 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 3,613 4 1 1107.1
2004 Q2 3,317 6 3 1808.9
2004 Q1 2,016 4 0 1984.1
2003 Q4 4,049 0 0 0.0
Show 15 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2003 Q3 3,752 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 4,247 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 3,021 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 4,035 10 4 2478.3
2002 Q3 4,276 2 0 467.7
2002 Q2 2,295 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 817 4 0 4896.0
2001 Q4 2,431 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 2,899 1 0 344.9
2001 Q2 2,371 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 1,056 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 1,972 2 0 1014.2
2000 Q3 2,225 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 2,918 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 2,134 1 0 468.6

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.