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Stansbury Island: 102 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

TM Crushing, LLC · Surface
Controlled by John D Hadfield
Henefer, Summit County, UT  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4202402

Stansbury Island has $58K in proposed MSHA penalties and $9K outstanding across 4 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
4
Years on record
2005–2024
Latest incident
Oct 2024
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2005
102
citations
24
significant & substantial
$58,003
proposed penalties
$35,797
paid to date
62% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $22,206 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See TM Crushing, LLC's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2005
41
inspections on record
534
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: 534 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Stansbury Island has $58K in proposed MSHA penalties and $9K outstanding across 4 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.
$58K
proposed penalties
$45K
current assessed
$36K
paid to date
$9K
outstanding
94 assessments are final orders; 4 contested dockets.
Of $22K in penalties contested before the Commission, $8K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-11-18.
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.
24.2%
significant & substantial
7.1%
high negligence or reckless
24.2%
reasonably likely or greater
81.8%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 2.0% low, 90.9% moderate, 7.1% 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.
23 citations taken to the federal commission · 23% of citations on record
  • Settled 18 · 78%
  • Still open 5 · 22%
86%
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 7 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
62%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$22K proposed, $8K 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 2026-02-12.
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 2025-0183 Settlement Simonton 2025 $11K → $5K
WEST 2026-0107 Settlement Simonton 2026 $8K → $453
WEST 2024-0175 Settlement Simonton 2024 $3K → $3K
WEST 2025-0313 Decision pending
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: 2025-11-19
33%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
22
samples
15
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz155 over
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg7
Show the individual readings (22)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2005-10-13 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 1.04 0.89 1.17 Laborer, Bullgang
2005-10-13 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 1.08 0.89 1.21 Laborer, Bullgang
2005-08-23 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 1.63 0.89 1.83 Laborer, Bullgang
2005-06-14 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.69 0.47 1.47 Laborer, Bullgang
2005-06-14 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.69 0.48 1.44 Laborer, Bullgang
2025-11-19 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bulldozer Operator
2025-11-19 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2024-04-24 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.2 0.56 0.36 Laborer, Bullgang
2024-04-24 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.18 0.3 0.60 Crusher Oper/Worker
2024-04-24 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2024-04-24 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2015-07-21 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.28 0.71 0.39 Front-end Loader Operator
2015-07-21 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.21 0.66 0.32 Bulldozer Operator
2010-02-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2010-02-04 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.12 0.73 0.16 Front-end Loader Operator
2010-02-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2006-01-04 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.62 0.85 0.73 Laborer, Bullgang
2006-01-04 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.52 0.69 0.75 Laborer, Bullgang
2005-08-23 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.6 0.63 0.95 Laborer, Bullgang
2005-08-23 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.59 0.7 0.84 Laborer, Bullgang
2005-06-14 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2005-06-14 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.41 0.51 0.80 Bulldozer 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.

Stansbury Island recorded 15.22 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2024.

Injury rate, 2024
ⓘ 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.
15.22
total case rate
7.61
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.77 and the all-US-mining average was 2.08 cases per 100 workers.
In Utah, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.83 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
2024 * 15.22 7.61 0.000
2023 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2022 * 4.28 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.
Ownership history
  1. TM Crushing, LLC 2005 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2025 4
2024 12
2023 15
2022 15
2019 0
2018 2
2016 4
2015 2
2014 2
2013 5
2012 7
2011 3
2010 5
2009 4
2008 5
2007 5
2006 6
2005 5
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Stansbury Island sits in Summit 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.
Summit County, Utah · Population 42,709
0.4%
Mining share of county employment
$137,058
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
2025 Q4 1,732 3 0 1732.1
2025 Q3 1,160 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 783 5 1 6385.7
2025 Q1 1,160 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 7,370 7 2 949.8
2024 Q3 5,292 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 6,794 12 3 1766.3
2024 Q1 6,832 0 0 0.0
Show 57 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 7,297 13 4 1781.6
2023 Q3 7,888 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 9,910 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 10,319 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 10,237 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 12,772 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 14,868 4 0 269.0
2022 Q1 8,821 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 0 0 0
2018 Q1 1,038 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 1,757 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 780 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 1,927 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 1,812 3 1 1655.6
2015 Q4 1,971 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1,362 4 2 2936.9
2015 Q2 0 0 0
2015 Q1 0 0 0
2014 Q4 0 0 0
2014 Q3 0 0 0
2014 Q2 2,457 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 1,672 1 0 598.1
2013 Q4 1,994 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 2,991 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 2,607 2 1 767.2
2013 Q1 2,959 2 0 675.9
2012 Q4 3,468 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 3,709 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 3,187 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 4,133 1 0 242.0
2011 Q4 4,291 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 3,459 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 0 0 0
2011 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q4 884 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 723 2 0 2766.3
2010 Q2 897 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 1,162 3 1 2581.8
2009 Q4 1,377 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 0 0 0
2009 Q2 2,636 4 0 1517.5
2009 Q1 983 7 0 7121.1
2008 Q4 2,235 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 2,292 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 1,571 4 1 2546.1
2008 Q1 324 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 1,977 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 2,946 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 4,159 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 3,706 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 4,000 6 2 1500.0
2006 Q3 4,520 8 2 1769.9
2006 Q2 3,211 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 1,641 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 2,964 4 3 1349.5
2005 Q3 3,146 2 0 635.7
2005 Q2 2,110 5 1 2369.7
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

4 on file

2024 · 2 incidents

October 16, 2024 UT · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
TM Crushing, LLC · Struck by falling object

Three employees were tied off, completing a jaw die maintenance task. IE was carrying roughly a 30 pound wedge plate. While carrying the wedge, IE tripped and tried catching the wedge before it fell allowing the wedge to fall onto EE's left hand fracturing EE's middle finger. EE has since had a follow up appointment and is expected to make a full recovery.

June 27, 2024 UT · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
TM Crushing, LLC · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE was doing a repair on a wire using a utility knife. EE cut EE's calf and needed stitches. EE was released to full duty the same day and had a follow up today and is healing well and stitches are out

2022 · 1 incident

July 18, 2022 UT · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman MACHINERY
TM Crushing, LLC · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Miner was changing a cutting edge segment on a loader when EE supported the segment with EE's leg and used an impact gun to remove the bolt. The bolt head spun loose and the miners leg shifted and came in contact with the sharp edges of the bolt resulting in a laceration to the shin of the miner, requiring stitches.

2005 · 1 incident

November 4, 2005 UT · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer POWERED HAULAGE
TM Crushing, LLC · Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects

Employee reached into conveyor belt area while equipment was running. Employees hand was caught in tail pulley. Left arm was amputated approximately 4" below elbow.