Mining Incidents

Dry Wash: 14 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Miracle Rock Mining & Research · Surface
Controlled by David Taylor
Emery, Emery County, UT  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4202259

Dry Wash has $870 in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 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
14
citations
0
significant & substantial
$870
proposed penalties
$870
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
14
inspections on record
110
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: 110 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Dry Wash has $870 in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 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.
$870
proposed penalties
$870
current assessed
$870
paid to date
$0
outstanding
14 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2007-12-04.
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.
0.0%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
0.0%
reasonably likely or greater
42.9%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 21.4% low, 78.6% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, 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: 2005-03-02, 21 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
1
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (1)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2005-03-02 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.18 0.61 0.30 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. Miracle Rock Mining & Research 1999 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2016 2
2010 2
2009 1
2007 1
2006 2
2005 2
2004 2
2003 2
2002 1
2001 5
2000 6
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Dry Wash sits in Emery County, Utah, where the Census mining category is 7.5% 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.
Emery County, Utah · Population 9,968
7.5%
Mining share of county employment
$69,956
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
2016 Q3 0 0 0
2016 Q2 139 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 130 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 0 0 0
2009 Q4 0 0 0
2009 Q3 0 0 0
2009 Q2 300 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 109 0 0 0.0
Show 29 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2007 Q4 0 1 0
2007 Q3 40 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 51 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 348 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 464 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 218 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 355 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 308 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 464 6 0 12931.0
2004 Q4 0 0 0
2004 Q3 163 1 0 6135.0
2004 Q2 440 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 1,112 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 226 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 0 0 0
2003 Q2 540 3 0 5555.6
2003 Q1 280 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 0 0 0
2002 Q3 207 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 140 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 0 0 0
2001 Q4 0 0 0
2001 Q3 2,260 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 5,061 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 960 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 1,035 2 0 1932.4
2000 Q3 3,650 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 5,786 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 0 0 0

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.