Mining Incidents

Poverty Point Pit: 9 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Holcim (US) Inc. · Surface
Controlled by Amrize Ltd
Delle, Utah County, UT  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4202380

Poverty Point Pit has $773 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
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2004
9
citations
1
significant & substantial
$773
proposed penalties
$773
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
11
inspections on record
105
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: 105 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Poverty Point Pit has $773 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.
$773
proposed penalties
$773
current assessed
$773
paid to date
$0
outstanding
9 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2012-01-10.
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.
11.1%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
11.1%
reasonably likely or greater
66.7%
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.
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: 2012-01-31, 14 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
5
samples
4
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz3
  • Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz1
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (5)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2012-01-31 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.13 1.36 0.10 Drill Operator, Rotary
2012-01-31 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Drill Helper
2004-06-23 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 1.57 1.63 0.96 Drill Operator, Rotary Air
2004-06-23 Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz 0.17 10 0.02 Bulldozer Operator
2004-06-23 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.41 1.31 0.31 Drill Helper
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. Holcim (US) Inc. 2004 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2015 0
2014 0
2013 0
2012 1
2011 2
2010 0
2009 0
2008 1
2007 2
2006 2
2005 1
2004 3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Poverty Point Pit 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
2015 Q3 0 0 0
2015 Q2 0 0 0
2015 Q1 0 0 0
2014 Q4 0 0 0
2014 Q3 0 0 0
2014 Q2 0 0 0
2014 Q1 0 0 0
2013 Q4 0 0 0
Show 29 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2013 Q3 0 0 0
2013 Q2 0 0 0
2013 Q1 0 0 0
2012 Q4 0 0 0
2012 Q3 0 0 0
2012 Q2 0 0 0
2012 Q1 420 3 0 7142.9
2011 Q4 480 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 0 0 0
2010 Q1 0 0 0
2009 Q4 0 0 0
2009 Q3 0 0 0
2009 Q2 0 0 0
2009 Q1 0 0 0
2008 Q4 0 0 0
2008 Q3 316 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 720 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 224 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 353 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 864 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 1 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 672 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 1 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 0 0 0
2005 Q2 0 1 0
2005 Q1 1,584 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 336 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 530 1 0 1886.8
2004 Q1 773 0 0 0.0

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.