Mining Incidents

Bulldog Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Mel Clark Inc · Surface
Controlled by Melvin D Clark
Cedar City, Iron County, UT  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 4202362

Bulldog Pit has $14K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 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 2003
82
citations
13
significant & substantial
$14,234
proposed penalties
$13,494
paid to date
95% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $740 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2003
39
inspections on record
587
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: 587 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Bulldog Pit has $14K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 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.
$14K
proposed penalties
$13K
current assessed
$13K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
82 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-03-26.
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 2,612 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 2,005 1 0 498.8
2025 Q2 1,874 3 0 1600.9
2024 Q4 2,346 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 1,402 2 0 1426.5
2024 Q2 2,302 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 2,046 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 2,621 2 0 763.1
Show 69 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q3 2,065 4 0 1937.0
2023 Q2 2,302 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 1,094 1 0 914.1
2022 Q4 1,176 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 2,224 2 0 899.3
2022 Q2 2,375 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 1,833 3 0 1636.7
2021 Q4 2,178 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,510 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 1,596 2 1 1253.1
2021 Q1 1,867 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 2,713 2 0 737.2
2020 Q3 2,698 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 3,465 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 2,598 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 2,032 2 0 984.3
2019 Q3 2,275 3 0 1318.7
2019 Q2 1,568 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 1,308 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 1,457 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,806 4 0 2214.8
2018 Q2 2,168 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 991 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 827 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 1,292 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 2,063 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 1,842 1 0 542.9
2016 Q4 1,749 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 1,971 4 1 2029.4
2016 Q2 2,311 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 1,116 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 1,703 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1,796 3 1 1670.4
2015 Q2 1,346 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 1,494 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 1,276 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 1,323 2 0 1511.7
2013 Q4 158 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 256 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 1,784 5 1 2802.7
2012 Q1 163 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 546 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 1,101 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 996 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 1,367 1 0 731.5
2009 Q1 575 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 1,223 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 1,302 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 1,163 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 918 5 0 5446.6
2007 Q4 1,451 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 1,740 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 2,068 4 0 1934.2
2007 Q1 2,171 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 1,867 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 2,810 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 3,053 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 1,637 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 2,991 2 0 668.7
2005 Q3 2,213 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 1,650 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 872 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 1,170 3 2 2564.1
2004 Q3 1,939 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 1,584 11 4 6944.4
2004 Q1 379 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 2,192 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 2,111 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 2,377 7 2 2944.9

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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