Mining Incidents

Gray Cliffs Portable Metal/Non-Metal

S & L Inc · Surface
Santiquin, Utah County, UT  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4202738

Gray Cliffs Portable has $42K in proposed MSHA penalties and $5K outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
9
Years on record
2023–2025
Latest incident
Nov 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2023
54
citations
17
significant & substantial
$41,768
proposed penalties
$32,903
paid to date
79% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $8,865 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2023
13
inspections on record
218
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: 218 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Gray Cliffs Portable has $42K in proposed MSHA penalties and $5K outstanding across 1 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.
$42K
proposed penalties
$38K
current assessed
$33K
paid to date
$5K
outstanding
50 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-05-19.
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 8,651 7 3 809.2
2025 Q3 11,083 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 11,423 6 1 525.3
2025 Q1 12,594 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 6,557 6 2 915.1
2024 Q3 9,940 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 8,390 8 0 953.5
2024 Q1 5,488 0 0 0.0
Show 7 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 4,769 16 7 3355.0
2023 Q3 6,143 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 4,238 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 3,357 7 3 2085.2
2022 Q4 3,702 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 2,729 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 4,978 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

9 on file

2025 · 5 incidents

November 7, 2025 UT · Metal/Non-Metal quality control technician, laboratory technician, laboratory assistant HANDLING OF MATERIALS
S & L Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

Lifting bucket of dirt for lab testing reinjured shoulder strain.

August 1, 2025 UT · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
S & L Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Miner was loading trash pallets into trailer, one fell back and hit left wrist and then pulled on arm straining left shouder

July 29, 2025 UT · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman POWERED HAULAGE
S & L Inc · Struck against a moving object

Mined was operating street sweeper and jarred lower back

June 30, 2025 UT · Metal/Non-Metal lab technician HANDLING OF MATERIALS
S & L Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

Lifting a tote of gravel into shaker strained shoulder

March 24, 2025 UT · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
S & L Inc · Fall onto or against objects

Operator was exiting trackhoe and stepped onto unstable footing and fell down twisting ankle and cutting hand on a rock

2024 · 3 incidents

August 21, 2024 UT · Metal/Non-Metal crusher attendant/operator, pan feeder operator/worker HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
S & L Inc · Struck by flying object

Miner was cutting a bearing off of a conveyor with a torch, hit part with a hammer and a small piece of metal flew off and stuck in their lower lip, Dr removed metal and put 2 stiches in lip

June 4, 2024 UT · Metal/Non-Metal backhoe operator, trackhoe operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
S & L Inc · Fall from scaffolds, walkways, platforms

Installing Conveyor support beam, chain slipped on support and beam pivoted knocking miner from the catwalk, fell approx 8 feet, slight fracture of wrist

April 24, 2024 UT · Metal/Non-Metal backhoe operator, trackhoe operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
S & L Inc · Fall from machine

Slipped climbimg into machine and fell backwards onto left wrist

2023 · 1 incident

November 2, 2023 UT · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator MACHINERY
S & L Inc · Contact with hot objects or substances

Miner said someone was welding and a spark went down their boot and burned their foot, Miner later said they were cutting a self tapping screw with a grinder and a piece went down a boot and burned their foot. When asked to come to office and write a report of what happened, where it happened, they did not want to make a report.

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