Mining Incidents

Willow Creek Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by GMCO Corporation
Salina, Sevier County, UT  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4202663

Willow Creek has $19K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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 2017
48
citations
11
significant & substantial
$18,867
proposed penalties
$16,363
paid to date
87% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $2,504 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2017
22
inspections on record
422
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: 422 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Willow Creek has $19K 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.
$19K
proposed penalties
$16K
current assessed
$16K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
48 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-08-07.
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
2025 Q1 1,820 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 2,863 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 3,947 2 1 506.7
2024 Q2 4,552 1 0 219.7
2024 Q1 5,710 1 0 175.1
2023 Q4 4,696 1 1 212.9
2023 Q3 4,598 4 0 869.9
2023 Q2 3,264 0 0 0.0
Show 26 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q1 3,423 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 3,145 8 1 2543.7
2022 Q3 3,681 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 4,832 3 0 620.9
2022 Q1 7,419 7 2 943.5
2021 Q4 5,216 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 3,120 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 2,376 1 1 420.9
2021 Q1 4,218 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 3,584 3 1 837.1
2020 Q3 4,205 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 3,522 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 3,918 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 3,180 3 0 943.4
2019 Q3 2,698 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 3,027 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 1,102 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 4,026 6 2 1490.3
2018 Q3 4,731 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 4,304 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 2,440 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 2,165 4 0 1847.6
2017 Q3 2,190 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 2,084 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 1,922 4 2 2081.2
2016 Q4 960 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.

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The full compliance file on Willow Creek

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