Mining Incidents

Welby Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Salt Lake County - Ut
Midvale, Salt Lake County, UT  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4200890

Welby Pit has $1K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
5
Years on record
1993–2000
Latest incident
Aug 2000
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
16
citations
3
significant & substantial
$1,026
proposed penalties
$1,026
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
10
inspections on record
104
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: 104 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Welby Pit has $1K 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.
$1K
proposed penalties
$1K
current assessed
$1K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
16 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2003-08-27.
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
2003 Q4 0 0 0
2003 Q3 1,078 4 0 3710.6
2003 Q2 1,843 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 1,496 1 0 668.4
2002 Q4 2,225 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 2,423 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 2,959 1 0 338.0
2002 Q1 2,266 0 0 0.0
Show 7 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2001 Q4 2,057 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 2,449 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 2,600 10 3 3846.2
2000 Q4 2,605 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 3,456 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 3,316 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 1,803 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

5 on file

2000 · 3 incidents

August 25, 2000 UT · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Salt Lake County Public Works · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

OPEN END WRENCH WAS TOSSED TO KYLE AND WHEN HE CAUGHT IT THE OPEN END EDGE PUNTURED THE PALM OF HIS RIGHT HAND.

April 7, 2000 UT · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer MACHINERY
Salt Lake County Public Works · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

SETTING METAL GRINDER DOWN, SLIPPED OUT OF HIS HAND, GRINDING WHEEL WAS STILL IN MOTION AND CUT HIS LEFT FOREARM.

1998 · 1 incident

November 9, 1998 UT · Metal/Non-Metal beltman, conveyor man, conveyor belt worker, mobile bridge carrierman, feeder operator, conveyor rider HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Salt Lake County Public Works · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

TWISTED ARM WHILE INSTALLING NEW BELTING ON CONVEYOR. PULLING NEW BELTING ON CONVEYOR, CAUGHT CORNER OF BELT ON HEAD PULLEY WHEN IT CAME LOOS HIT HIS RIGHT ARM & TWISTED IT.

1993 · 1 incident

July 8, 1993 UT · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Salt Lake County Public Works · Struck against stationary object

LACERATION TO LEFT RING FINGER GETTING OUT SCRAPER CAUGHT RING ON DOOR.

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The full compliance file on Welby Pit

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.