Mining Incidents

south town Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Darin J Christensen
Nephi, Juab County, UT  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4202629

south town has $223K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 7 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 2014
191
citations
53
significant & substantial
$222,965
proposed penalties
$166,907
paid to date
75% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $56,058 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2014
38
inspections on record
859
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: 859 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 town has $223K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 7 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.
$223K
proposed penalties
$167K
current assessed
$167K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
186 assessments are final orders; 7 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-03-09.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
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
2025 Q4 5,748 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 6,557 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 5,649 3 1 531.1
2025 Q1 3,030 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 6,184 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 6,262 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 4,077 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 2,472 0 0 0.0
Show 39 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 7,009 32 8 4565.6
2023 Q3 7,323 29 10 3960.1
2023 Q2 5,723 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 3,163 12 5 3793.9
2022 Q4 5,816 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 6,678 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 5,871 7 2 1192.3
2022 Q1 1,065 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 3,016 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 4,306 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 3,404 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1,959 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 3,953 7 2 1770.8
2020 Q3 6,765 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 5,694 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 930 4 0 4301.1
2019 Q4 2,840 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 4,451 7 1 1572.7
2019 Q2 4,055 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 320 4 0 12500.0
2018 Q4 2,729 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 5,457 1 0 183.3
2018 Q2 4,040 9 3 2227.7
2018 Q1 1,864 8 1 4291.8
2017 Q4 3,722 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 6,662 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 4,703 34 10 7229.4
2017 Q1 1,787 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 3,059 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 5,380 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 3,224 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 1,812 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 4,982 6 3 1204.3
2015 Q3 5,092 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 5,374 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 1,634 1 0 612.0
2014 Q4 8,057 20 7 2482.3
2014 Q3 4,772 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 3,755 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.

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The full compliance file on south town

A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.