Mining Incidents

Portable Crusher #1: 16 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

West Side Grading · Surface
Controlled by John P Smith
Millard, Millard County, UT  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 4201852

Portable Crusher #1 has $4K 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
1
Years on record
2024
Latest incident
Sep 2024
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2024
16
citations
6
significant & substantial
$3,659
proposed penalties
$3,659
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2024
4
inspections on record
74
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: 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.

Portable Crusher #1 has $4K 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.
$4K
proposed penalties
$4K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
16 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.
Violation severity profile
Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
37.5%
significant & substantial
6.2%
high negligence or reckless
37.5%
reasonably likely or greater
87.5%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 93.8% moderate, 6.2% 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: 2025-07-15
4
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz3
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (4)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2025-07-15 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.17 Bulldozer Operator
2025-07-15 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2025-07-15 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.22 Crusher Oper/Worker
2025-07-15 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.3 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. West Side Grading 1983 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 3
2025 3
2024 3
2023 3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Portable Crusher #1 sits in Millard County, Utah, where the Census mining category is 2.8% 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.
Millard County, Utah · Population 13,179
2.8%
Mining share of county employment
$70,877
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
2026 Q2 432 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 306 1 0 3268.0
2025 Q4 831 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 87 7 3 80459.8
2025 Q2 141 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 93 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 258 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 285 8 3 28070.2
Show 5 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 252 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 198 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 378 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 488 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 327 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2024 · 1 incident

September 18, 2024 UT · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
West Side Grading · Fall from machine

Ee was starting a feeder box when a part was getting bent. Ee climbed onto machine to remove a bolt. A pin was installed upside down, and when Ee removed the bolt, the pin fell out causing the part to shift and knocking the Ee off of the machine. Ee was standing on unprotected edge and was not using fall protection. 6'-7' fall.