Mining Incidents

Portable Wash Plant: 3 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Cache, Cache County, UT  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4202385

Portable Wash Plant has $300 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
2007
Latest incident
Jul 2007
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2008
3
citations
0
significant & substantial
$300
proposed penalties
$300
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2004
5
inspections on record
30
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: 30 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 Wash Plant has $300 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.
$300
proposed penalties
$300
current assessed
$300
paid to date
$0
outstanding
3 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2008-04-24.
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
33.3%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 100.0% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. LeGrand Johnson Construction Co 2004 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2010 2
2009 3
2008 3
2007 5
2005 0
2004 1
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Portable Wash Plant sits in Cache 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.
Cache County, Utah · Population 137,031
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$78,292
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
2010 Q2 0 0 0
2010 Q1 30 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 270 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 750 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 990 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 16 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 0 0 0
2008 Q3 2,700 0 0 0.0
Show 9 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2008 Q2 1,560 3 0 1923.1
2008 Q1 0 0 0
2007 Q4 3,000 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 7,800 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 0 0 0
2005 Q2 0 0 0
2005 Q1 0 0 0
2004 Q4 0 0 0
2004 Q3 270 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2007 · 1 incident

July 20, 2007 UT · Metal/Non-Metal outside foreman, leadman MACHINERY
LeGrand Johnson Construction Co · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Two oversized rocks were lodged in the jaws of the portable crusher. I managed a chain around one rock and had someone else pull it out. He then put his right toes in a pinch point for a step to reach the remote control. On grabbing the remote control, he absentmindedly switched the jaws on and caught his foot. His 4th and 5th toes on his right foot were fractured.