Mining Incidents

Whitaker Construction - Wellsville Pit: 12 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Wellsville, Cache County, UT  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4202635

Whitaker Construction - Wellsville 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
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2016
12
citations
0
significant & substantial
$1,441
proposed penalties
$1,441
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2014
19
inspections on record
185
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: 185 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Whitaker Construction - Wellsville 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
12 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2023-09-18.
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.
0.0%
significant & substantial
8.3%
high negligence or reckless
0.0%
reasonably likely or greater
50.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 16.7% low, 75.0% moderate, 8.3% high, 0.0% reckless.
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: 2023-09-19
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
6
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg3
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz2
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (6)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2023-09-19 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2023-09-19 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.45 Front-end Loader Operator
2023-09-19 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.27 0.97 0.28 Crusher Oper/Worker
2018-04-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2018-04-04 Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.16 Crusher Oper/Worker
2018-04-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator

Area samples (mill and shop air)

Last sampled: 2017-06-28, 9 years ago
3
samples
Show the individual readings (3)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Area sampled
2017-06-28 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 CRUSHER CONTROL TOWE
2017-06-28 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 DEERE 844K
2016-09-28 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 SF ACTIVE MINING
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.
Ownership history
  1. Whitaker Construction, Co. Inc. 2014 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2024 2
2023 2
2022 5
2021 5
2020 6
2019 6
2018 7
2017 7
2016 7
2015 5
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Whitaker Construction - Wellsville Pit sits in Cache County, Utah, where the Census mining category is 0.2% 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.
Cache County, Utah · Population 137,031
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$78,292
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
2024 Q2 397 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 141 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 382 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 660 1 0 1515.2
2023 Q2 423 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 0 0 0
2022 Q4 1,272 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 2,624 1 0 381.1
Show 29 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2022 Q2 2,004 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 852 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1,970 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 2,479 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 2,739 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 3,983 2 0 502.1
2020 Q4 2,178 1 0 459.1
2020 Q3 2,661 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 2,122 1 0 471.3
2020 Q1 857 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 1,405 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 3,189 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 1,930 1 0 518.1
2019 Q1 822 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 1,578 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 1,933 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 2,066 1 0 484.0
2018 Q1 968 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 1,795 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 2,348 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 2,159 1 0 463.2
2017 Q1 829 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 1,471 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 2,187 1 0 457.2
2016 Q2 1,701 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 1,040 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 2,523 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 1,530 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 2,555 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.