Mining Incidents

Iron Blossom Metal/Non-Metal

Sunshine Mining Company · Underground
Utah County, UT  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4201742

MSHA record for Iron Blossom (mine ID 4201742). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Ownership history
  1. Kennecott Minerals Company 1981 to 1988
  2. Sunshine Mining Company 1988 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Iron Blossom sits in Utah County, Utah, where the Census mining category is 0.2% 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.
Utah County, Utah · Population 683,622
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$96,877
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.

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.