Bromide Project has $200K in proposed MSHA penalties and $134 outstanding across 10 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
10
Years on record
2012–2016
Latest incident
Dec 2016
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2012
144
citations
45
significant & substantial
$199,636
proposed penalties
$117,255
paid to date
59% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $82,381 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2012
49
inspections on record
1,616
inspection hours
8.9
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.
144 citations across 1,616 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Imminent-danger orders
ⓘA Section 107(a) order removes miners from an area when an inspector finds an imminent danger. Each order is lifted once the condition is corrected, so this counts orders issued, not orders now in effect.
1
Section 107(a) orders
Most recent order: 2014-02-25.
On record since 2014.
Source: MSHA imminent-danger order records, updated weekly.
Bromide Project has $200K in proposed MSHA penalties and $134 outstanding across 10 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.
$200K
proposed penalties
$117K
current assessed
$117K
paid to date
$134
outstanding
141 assessments are final orders; 10 contested dockets.
Of $177K in penalties contested before the Commission, $95K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2018-03-06.
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.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
When citations were contested
ⓘContesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
66citations taken to the federal commission · 46% of citations on record
Settled
66 · 100%
100%
S&S designation survived the contest
ⓘCounts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.
of 29 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
48%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$184K proposed, $96K after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2017-02-23.
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.
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: 2015-09-01, 11 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
3
samples
2
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Diesel particulate (total carbon)2
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (7)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2015-09-01
TC from EC @ 160
0
160
0.00
Mucking Mach. Operator
2015-09-01
EC @ 160
23
160
0.14
Mucking Mach. Operator
2015-09-01
TC @ 160
28
160
0.18
Mucking Mach. Operator
2015-09-01
TC from EC @ 160
0
160
0.00
Mucking Mach. Operator
2015-09-01
EC @ 160
60
160
0.38
Mucking Mach. Operator
2015-09-01
TC @ 160
60
160
0.38
Mucking Mach. Operator
2015-09-01
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz
0.36
Backhoe 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.
Bromide Project recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2017.
Injury rate, 2017
ⓘThis rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.99 and the all-US-mining average was 2.48 cases per 100 workers.
In Utah, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.25 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Year
total case rate
days-away
fatal
2017 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2016 *
9.94
4.97
0.000
2015 *
15.60
11.70
0.000
2014 *
8.34
8.34
0.000
2013 *
8.94
8.94
0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2019
1
2018
4
2017
19
2016
24
2015
32
2014
13
2013
16
2012
9
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Bromide Project sits in Garfield County, Utah, where the Census mining category is 2.3% 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.
Garfield County, Utah · Population 5,170
2.3%
Mining share of county employment
$61,688
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
2019 Q2
0
0
0
2019 Q1
40
0
0
0.0
2018 Q4
550
0
0
0.0
2018 Q3
600
0
0
0.0
2018 Q2
1,315
0
0
0.0
2018 Q1
2,815
3
1
1065.7
2017 Q4
4,832
0
0
0.0
2017 Q3
6,964
3
0
430.8
Show 22 earlier quartersHide earlier quarters
Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2017 Q2
12,281
0
0
0.0
2017 Q1
13,487
1
1
74.1
2016 Q4
9,744
3
1
307.9
2016 Q3
3,472
4
0
1152.1
2016 Q2
13,244
3
0
226.5
2016 Q1
13,799
5
1
362.3
2015 Q4
13,374
0
0
0.0
2015 Q3
20,195
7
1
346.6
2015 Q2
13,152
0
0
0.0
2015 Q1
4,547
0
0
0.0
2014 Q4
5,418
2
0
369.1
2014 Q3
6,424
6
1
934.0
2014 Q2
4,701
14
9
2978.1
2014 Q1
7,426
51
15
6867.8
2013 Q4
7,934
16
9
2016.6
2013 Q3
7,857
14
4
1781.9
2013 Q2
3,699
1
1
270.3
2013 Q1
2,880
0
0
0.0
2012 Q4
3,938
4
0
1015.7
2012 Q3
4,305
2
0
464.6
2012 Q2
3,650
0
0
0.0
2012 Q1
1,122
0
0
0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
10 on file
2016 · 2 incidents
December 2, 2016UT · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
The employee dismounted a fork lift and walked around it and slipped on some ice and landed on left forearm causing the injury.
February 18, 2016UT · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techHANDLING OF MATERIALS
The employee dismounted the fuel truck. EE hit EE's hand on the body of the truck. Doctor's findings EE had an old fracture volar plate fracture on the fourth right middle phalangeal base. EE received medical attention and has returned to work.
Yard hand and truck driver were securing load on flat bed truck. They were using chain and chain binders, when cheater pipe slipped off of lever chain binder. The cheater pipe hit yard hand in the left eyebrow.
Bolting with a Jack leg and rock drill installing split sets and Hog wire. The operator was drilling a new hole in the back. He penetrated the steel about eight inches when the steel snapped on the shank. The remaining piece of drill steel dislodged from the drill hole falling three feet striking ee on his upper left thigh
June 4, 2015UT · Metal/Non-Metallaborer, bull gang, faceman, parts runner, roustabout, roof trimmer/scalerPOWERED HAULAGE
Bromide Mining LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
Employee loaded a pump into an L.H.D bucket. He moved away and signaled the operate to curl the bucket. The pump started to fall out employee jumped into the bucket and pushed the pump into position. Whilst he was busy with this action the bucket crushing his left middle finger tip against the stopper.
2014 · 2 incidents
July 8, 2014UT · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Employee was stepping down to ground level from a stationary piece of equipment in the mill. Slipped on loose ground and braced his fall with his left wrist resulting in a fracture. No equipment was damaged and employee sought medical attention the next day.
January 7, 2014UT · Metal/Non-Metalledgeman/hand, quarry manOTHER
Employee exited PC-200 excavator, surface mine excavations machine, and was walking on level surface ground when he slipped and fell, stumbled on loose rock. Employee struck wrist on ground and fractured wrist.
2012 · 1 incident
May 24, 2012UT · Metal/Non-Metalledgeman/hand, quarry manMACHINERY
Bromide Mining LLC · Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects
EE was assisting with removing the drill rods and using a wrench. The drill engaged and cut his finger.