Mining Incidents

Lott Canyon Mine: 23 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Mills Rock & Gravel · Surface
Controlled by Jay Mills
Saratoga Springs, Utah County, UT  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4202733

Lott Canyon Mine has $6K in proposed MSHA penalties and $2K 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
2023
Latest incident
Feb 2023
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2022
23
citations
7
significant & substantial
$6,269
proposed penalties
$4,591
paid to date
73% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,678 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2022
5
inspections on record
63
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: 63 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Lott Canyon Mine has $6K in proposed MSHA penalties and $2K 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.
$6K
proposed penalties
$6K
current assessed
$5K
paid to date
$2K
outstanding
23 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2023-07-07.
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.
30.4%
significant & substantial
17.4%
high negligence or reckless
30.4%
reasonably likely or greater
69.6%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 4.3% low, 78.3% moderate, 17.4% 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: 2023-05-02, 3 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
4
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz3
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (4)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2023-05-02 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.64 0.72 0.89 Shovel Operator
2023-05-02 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2022-09-28 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.28 Backhoe Operator
2022-09-28 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.19 Bulldozer 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. Lott Canyon Mine LLC 2022 to 2023
  2. Mills Rock & Gravel 2023 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2023 9
2022 6
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Lott Canyon Mine 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.
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
2023 Q3 1,099 10 4 9099.2
2023 Q2 6,761 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 3,625 7 2 1931.0
2022 Q4 3,744 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 2,946 4 0 1357.8
2022 Q2 2,417 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 2,157 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2023 · 1 incident

February 23, 2023 UT · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Lott Canyon Mine LLC · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was cleaning out the jaw and they hurt their knee. We did not find out about this until 2/28/23. We are not sure this occurred on site. Workmans comp will investigate this.