Desert Mound: 30 MSHA citations
Metal/Non-Metal
Desert Mound has $34K in proposed MSHA penalties and $32K outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 1
- Years on record
- 2025
- Latest incident
- Aug 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2024
12
significant & substantial
$33,784
proposed penalties
6% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $31,880 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2024
n/a
citations per 100 inspection hours
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This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
Rate withheld: 84 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Desert Mound has $34K in proposed MSHA penalties and $32K outstanding across 0 contested dockets.
Penalty disposition
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Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
30 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-03-18.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
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Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
40.0%
significant & substantial
16.7%
high negligence or reckless
40.0%
reasonably likely or greater
40.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 3.3% low, 80.0% moderate, 16.7% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Health sampling
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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)
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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: 2025-06-10
Most sampled contaminants
- Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
- Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (2)
| Date |
Contaminant |
Concentration |
Limit |
Conc / limit |
Occupation |
| 2025-06-10 |
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz |
0.5 |
|
|
Backhoe Operator |
| 2025-06-10 |
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.
Workforce and production
| Year |
Employees |
| 2025 |
13 |
| 2024 |
5 |
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Desert Mound sits in Iron County, Utah, where the Census mining category is 0.6% of county employment.
Local economic context
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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.
Iron County, Utah · Population 60,201
0.6%
Mining share of county employment
$65,527
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
Quarterly safety rates
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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 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 |
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
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.