Desert Mound
Metal/Non-Metal
Cedar City,
Iron County,
UT
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Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4202756
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: 74 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.
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.
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