Mining Incidents

Rockville Pit: 113 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Budd Lee & Sons Inc · Surface
Controlled by Allen Lee
Rockville, Washington County, UT  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 4202303

Rockville Pit has $13K in proposed MSHA penalties and $302 outstanding across 1 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 2000
113
citations
25
significant & substantial
$13,431
proposed penalties
$13,129
paid to date
98% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $302 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
38
inspections on record
501
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: 501 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Rockville Pit has $13K in proposed MSHA penalties and $302 outstanding across 1 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.
$13K
proposed penalties
$13K
current assessed
$13K
paid to date
$302
outstanding
113 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $600 in penalties contested before the Commission, $600 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-06-10.
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.
22.1%
significant & substantial
3.5%
high negligence or reckless
22.1%
reasonably likely or greater
60.2%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 12.4% low, 84.1% moderate, 3.5% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
When citations were contested
Contesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
1 citations taken to the federal commission · 1% of citations on record
  • Stood as issued 1 · 100%
100%
S&S designation survived the contest
Counts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.
of 1 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
0%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$600 proposed, $600 after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2013-02-25.
Contested penalties
A reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.
Largest penalties this mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
WEST 2013-522M Default Lesnick 2013 $600 → $600
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), 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: 2024-01-18
4
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg2
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz2
Show the individual readings (4)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2024-01-18 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2024-01-18 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2019-04-25 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.19 Front-end Loader Operator
2014-11-18 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.23 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. Budd Lee & Sons Inc 2000 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 2
2025 2
2024 2
2023 2
2022 1
2021 2
2020 2
2019 2
2018 2
2017 2
2016 2
2015 2
2014 2
2013 2
2012 1
2011 1
2010 1
2009 1
2008 1
2007 1
2006 2
2005 1
2004 1
2003 1
2002 1
2001 2
2000 3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Rockville Pit sits in Washington 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.
Washington County, Utah · Population 189,827
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$76,411
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 323 2 0 6192.0
2026 Q1 309 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 274 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 347 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 349 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 234 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 270 1 0 3703.7
2024 Q3 608 0 0 0.0
Show 92 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 225 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 256 1 0 3906.2
2023 Q4 282 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 287 7 2 24390.2
2023 Q2 80 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 153 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 132 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 0 0 0
2022 Q2 110 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 426 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 307 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 296 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 333 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 480 4 0 8333.3
2020 Q4 250 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 397 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 285 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 303 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 325 3 0 9230.8
2019 Q3 302 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 528 4 0 7575.8
2019 Q1 175 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 286 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 268 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 336 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 341 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 236 1 0 4237.3
2017 Q3 442 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 159 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 488 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 114 2 0 17543.9
2016 Q3 334 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 267 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 98 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 217 2 0 9216.6
2015 Q3 435 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 820 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 688 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 347 2 0 5763.7
2014 Q3 269 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 139 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 148 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 46 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 293 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 265 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 320 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 120 11 1 91666.7
2012 Q3 105 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 125 5 1 40000.0
2012 Q1 184 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 108 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 90 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 40 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 174 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 248 7 4 28225.8
2010 Q3 520 1 0 1923.1
2010 Q2 754 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 56 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 33 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 60 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 30 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 600 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 460 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 580 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 560 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 608 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 480 1 0 2083.3
2007 Q3 525 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 420 6 1 14285.7
2007 Q1 530 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 493 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 558 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 500 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 460 1 0 2173.9
2005 Q4 480 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 688 1 0 1453.5
2005 Q2 664 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 352 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 179 2 0 11173.2
2004 Q2 360 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 329 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 250 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 252 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 138 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 244 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 243 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 170 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 260 4 0 15384.6
2001 Q3 323 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 382 1 0 2617.8
2001 Q1 413 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 154 34 10 220779.2

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.