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: 820 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Tony M has $7K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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.
$7K
proposed penalties
$6K
current assessed
$6K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
31 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $3K in penalties contested before the Commission, $3K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-05-13.
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.
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.
1citations taken to the federal commission · 3% of citations on record
Settled
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 Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.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%
25%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$3K proposed, $2K 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 A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record.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 2009-01-27.
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.
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: 2012-06-15, 14 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
4
samples
4
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
Arsenic fumes1
Beryllium fumes1
Cadmium oxide fumes1
Chromium, insoluble1
Show the individual readings (17)
Date
Contaminant
Concentration
Limit
Conc / limit
Occupation
2012-06-15
Zinc oxide fumes
0.02
5
0.00
Welder, etc.
2012-06-15
Molybdenum fumes
0
10
0.00
Welder, etc.
2012-06-15
Nickel fumes
0
1
0.00
Welder, etc.
2012-06-15
Vanadium fumes
0
50
0.00
Welder, etc.
2012-06-15
Arsenic fumes
0
500
0.00
Welder, etc.
2012-06-15
Beryllium fumes
0
2
0.00
Welder, etc.
2012-06-15
Cadmium oxide fumes
0
100
0.00
Welder, etc.
2012-06-15
Chromium, insoluble
0
1
0.00
Welder, etc.
2012-06-15
Cobalt fumes
0
100
0.00
Welder, etc.
2012-06-15
Copper fumes
0.23
100
0.00
Welder, etc.
2012-06-15
Iron oxide fumes
0.05
10
0.01
Welder, etc.
2012-06-15
Lead fumes
0.28
150
0.00
Welder, etc.
2012-06-15
Magnesium oxide fumes
0
10
0.00
Welder, etc.
2012-06-15
Manganese fumes
0.01
5
0.00
Welder, etc.
2008-03-26
TC as EC @ 350
87.1
350
0.25
Truck Driver
2008-03-26
TCarbon @ 350
96.56
350
0.28
Truck Driver
2008-03-26
Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz
0.5
1.84
0.27
Truck Driver
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.
Tony M recorded 8.25 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2009.
Injury rate, 2009
ⓘ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.
8.25
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 2.82 and the all-US-mining average was 3.36 cases per 100 workers.
In Utah, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 2.21 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.
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
2026
18
2025
14
2024
18
2012
8
2011
10
2010
10
2009
14
2008
16
2007
5
2006
5
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Tony M sits in Garfield County, Utah, where the Census mining category is 2.3% 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.
Garfield County, Utah · Population 5,170
2.3%
Mining share of county employment
$61,688
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
EE was rehabilitating back in the 344 west just past the 989 cross cut. He finished drilling a 6' hole with jack leg & had pushed the bolt into the hole; there was a plate 8' matt hanging off the bolt. He felt that the bolt was secure. He turned to grab jack leg when he turned back the bolt fell from the hole cut his lip. The injured went & had the cut cleaned and had 13 stitches.
2008 · 6 incidents
October 30, 2008UT · Metal/Non-Metalelectrician, linemanELECTRICAL
EE was hooking up a power cable disconnect box, the power had not been locked out another worker was instructed to turn the power on when the pilot wire light came on at load center, power was turned on he was still hooking up the last phase of power, his left wrist came in contact with the live wire causing an electrical shock.
October 13, 2008UT · Metal/Non-Metalwarehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operatorSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
The employee was doing seasonal maintenance on the swamp coolers where the mine employees live. He was leaving the roof to go down the ladder. When the employee put his weight on the ladder, the safety catches released & the employee fell (maximum fall 11'2" from eave of trailer to the ground). Injuries were four fractured ribs and a cut spleen.
July 17, 2008UT · Metal/Non-Metalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
While walking, the mechanic stepped into a hole and fell to the ground striking a rock with his knee. The extent of the injury diagnoses was received on 8/5/08 and that resulted in a reportable inujry.
Worker was rock bolting, he was collaring hole for a bolt when he noticed his water was off, he shut the jackleg down and reached down with his right hand to turn the water on, when he looked away a rock fell out back hitting him on his left hand. Six (6) stiches were required to close the cut.
March 23, 2008UT · Metal/Non-Metalledgeman/hand, quarry manMACHINERY
Worker was bolting in the 252 xcut he had just installed a bolt in the mat then he started to collar another hole in the front of the mat. while he was drilling the second hole the bolt he had just put in shanked off with the plate on the bolt, it hit worker in the mouth cutting his mouth, needing four stitches.
January 19, 2008UT · Metal/Non-Metalledgeman/hand, quarry manMACHINERY
Worker was rock bolting in east decline. The split set bolt he was driving in was too low to get the drill and driver on in a vertical position. He was trying to force the bolt in when the ring snapped off causing the machine to lunge forward. His hand was on top of the machine and hit the rock bolt cutting his left ring finger requiring 5 stitches.
Workers light went out during shift he was walking out to get a replacement when he trip over something and fell on to a pile of bolts and mats cutting his left leg e required 5 stiches
Worker had finished wetting down the muckpile, he had wrapped up the water hose and turned around to walk back into heading, when he was 5'-6' from water header he claims he was hit by a rock that fell out of back. Second opinion one week later required surgical repair, becoming reportable on 8/15/2007