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: 355 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
South Hansen Pit has $6K 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.
$6K
proposed penalties
$6K
current assessed
$6K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
65 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2011-03-22.
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.
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: 2010-09-09, 15 years ago
38%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
9
samples
8
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz83 over
Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (9)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2010-07-29
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.45
0.27
1.67
Crusher Oper/Worker
2010-07-29
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.87
0.47
1.85
Oiler, Greaser
2002-03-21
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.32
0.3
1.07
Oiler, Greaser
2010-09-09
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.22
0.39
0.56
Crusher Oper/Worker
2010-09-09
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.24
0.42
0.57
Oiler, Greaser
2010-07-29
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.29
0.3
0.97
Oiler, Greaser
2010-07-29
Respirable dust, <.1mg
0
Front-end Loader Operator
2002-03-21
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.28
0.54
0.52
Bulldozer Operator
2002-03-21
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.18
0.43
0.42
Oiler, Greaser
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.
South Hansen Pit recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2010.
Injury rate, 2010
ⓘThis rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 2.68 and the all-US-mining average was 3.20 cases per 100 workers.
In Utah, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.91 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Year
total case rate
days-away
fatal
2010 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2009 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2007 *
6.54
3.27
0.000
2006 *
2.73
0.00
0.000
2005 *
12.55
3.14
0.000
2004 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2003 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2002 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2011
18
2010
36
2009
37
2008
34
2007
33
2006
31
2005
27
2004
27
2003
21
2002
20
2001
18
2000
23
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
South Hansen Pit sits in Salt Lake County, Utah, where the Census mining category is 0.4% 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.
Salt Lake County, Utah · Population 1,184,689
0.4%
Mining share of county employment
$94,658
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
EMPLOYEE WAS LEANING AGAINST BELT AND SIDE OF CONVEYOR WHILE PUTTING A NUT ON A BOLT. THE CONVEYOR WAS BUMPED FROM THE OTHER SIDE CAUSING THE NECK AND SIDE OF EMPLOYEE TO BE STRAINED.
August 7, 1992UT · Metal/Non-Metalfront-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operatorSTRIKING OR BUMPING
WHEN UNUSUAL NO3SE WAS NOTICED IN WET SHAKER PLANT WAS SHUT DOWN AND LOCKED OUT FOR INSPECTION WORKER I.NAME WAS PULLING ON V-BELT ON WET SHAKER WHEN FINGER WENT AROUND PULLEY CUAISNG SEVERE CUT TO FINGER 5MERICAN FORK HOSPITAL RE-ATTACHED SEVERED FINGER
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