Mining Incidents

Wildcat Loadout Coal

Controlled by Jim Wayland; Bob Nead
Price, Carbon County, UT  ·  Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 4201864

Wildcat Loadout has $14K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1K outstanding across 3 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
8
Years on record
1988–2010
Latest incident
Jan 2010
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
101
citations
40
significant & substantial
$14,145
proposed penalties
$12,981
paid to date
92% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,164 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
58
inspections on record
1,121
inspection hours
9.0
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.
101 citations across 1,121 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Wildcat Loadout has $14K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1K outstanding across 3 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.
$14K
proposed penalties
$14K
current assessed
$13K
paid to date
$1K
outstanding
99 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2017-05-22.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Wildcat Loadout shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.34 mg/m3 (98% compliant) across 160 samples.

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.
Respirable coal dust
Respirable coal dust and silica figures cover coal facilities. Dust compliance is measured against the current 1.5 mg/m3 standard; samples predating the 2014 standard are included, so compliance rates are a coarse historical signal.
0.34
dust avg (mg/m3)
5.42
dust max (mg/m3)
98%
within 1.5 mg/m3
160
samples
Most recent sample: 2015-06-10.
Silica (quartz)
2.5
silica avg (%)
5.3
silica max (%)
8
samples
Most recent sample: 2014-11-13.
Noise
0%
over PEL
75
samples
Most recent sample: 2014-11-06.
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, 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
2019 Q1 0 0 0
2018 Q4 0 0 0
2018 Q3 0 0 0
2018 Q2 0 0 0
2018 Q1 0 0 0
2017 Q4 0 0 0
2017 Q3 0 0 0
2017 Q2 0 1 0
Show 63 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2017 Q1 0 2 1
2016 Q4 0 0 0
2016 Q3 0 0 0
2016 Q2 0 0 0
2016 Q1 0 0 0
2015 Q4 2,188 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1,715 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 1,277 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 1,554 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 1,970 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 2,046 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 2,354 1 0 424.8
2014 Q1 2,956 1 0 338.3
2013 Q2 3,683 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 3,698 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 2,932 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 3,005 2 2 665.6
2012 Q2 4,106 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 3,157 1 0 316.8
2011 Q3 4,379 3 0 685.1
2010 Q3 944 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 4,679 11 0 2350.9
2010 Q1 5,061 19 3 3754.2
2009 Q4 5,154 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 5,014 2 1 398.9
2009 Q2 4,347 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 4,097 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 4,937 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 6,952 8 2 1150.7
2008 Q2 7,570 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 8,065 2 0 248.0
2007 Q4 9,238 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 10,794 8 4 741.2
2007 Q2 9,489 6 4 632.3
2007 Q1 9,899 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 8,823 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 8,352 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 9,196 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 8,825 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 8,568 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 8,808 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 9,379 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 9,193 2 2 217.6
2004 Q4 8,465 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 8,440 9 7 1066.4
2004 Q2 8,246 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 7,895 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 6,518 11 6 1687.6
2003 Q3 7,006 1 0 142.7
2003 Q2 6,897 1 0 145.0
2003 Q1 7,449 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 7,351 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 7,258 2 2 275.6
2002 Q2 7,134 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 6,396 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 6,331 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 6,124 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 6,475 1 0 154.4
2001 Q1 6,505 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 6,113 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 6,484 1 1 154.2
2000 Q2 6,745 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 6,925 4 4 577.6
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

8 on file

2010 · 1 incident

January 26, 2010 UT · Coal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Andalex Resources Inc · Struck by falling object

EE was trying to clean the frozen ice and coal out of the chute for loading the pneumatic trucks at Wildcat. EE was standing below the chute mouth and had a long bar by which he was shoving up into the output mouth of the chute. While prying and probing, a piece of frozen material broke loose from the chute and fell, striking EE on the right hand upon the forefinger.

2005 · 1 incident

June 9, 2005 UT · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Andalex Resources Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

The Employee was adjusting the feed gate on a belt. The wheel handle gave all at once and pinched his fingers between the wheel handle and the brace/bracket.

2003 · 1 incident

July 21, 2003 UT · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Andalex Resources Inc · Fall to the walkway or working surface

EMPLOYEE WAS STEPPING OUT OF THE BACK OF HIS SERVICE TRUCK AND LOST HIS BALANCE.

2002 · 1 incident

April 5, 2002 UT · Coal truck driver HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Andalex Resources Inc · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

EE'S BELLY DUMP TRUCK WAS STUCK WHILE TRYING TO UNLOAD A COAL PILE. AFTER THE FRONT END LOADER PULLED HER OFF THE COAL PILE SHE WAS PUTTING THETOW CABLE BACK ON THE LOADER WHEN SHE INJURED THE TENDONS IN HER RIGHT WRIST.

2000 · 1 incident

February 23, 2000 UT · Coal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Andalex Resources Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

INJ EE WAS MOVING A 55 GAL COAL SAMPLE BARREL WHICH HAD A PIECE OF CONVEYOR BELTING ON TOP AS A LID: THE BELTING RAISED UP & SCRAPED THE RIGHT EYE. 2 DAYS LATER THE EE WENT TO DR & RECD A RX MEDICATION FOR EYE INJURY

1994 · 1 incident

November 25, 1994 UT · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Andalex Resources Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

USING HAMMER AND PLIERS TO BEND OUT STAMPED CONCRETE ANCHORS. INJURY- CRACKED BONE IN RIGHT HAND/ SMALL FINGER BELOW KNUCKLE.

1992 · 1 incident

November 28, 1992 UT · Coal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Andalex Resources Inc · Fall down stairs

EMPLOYEE SLIPPED ON THE METAL STAIRWAY LEADING FROM THE LOADOUT TOWER CONTROL ROOM TO THE GROUND LEVEL INJURING IS LEFT ELBOW.

1988 · 1 incident

October 18, 1988 UT · Coal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Andalex Resources Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

INJURED EMPLOYEE HURT HIS BACK WHILE SHOVELING COAL ON CRUSHER PAD.

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The full compliance file on Wildcat Loadout

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.