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HUNTER PREP PLANT Coal

Controlled by Wolverine Fuels LLC
Huntington, Emery County, UT  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4202052

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
4
Years on record
2000–2020
Latest incident
Aug 2020
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
106
citations
18
significant & substantial
$17,370
proposed penalties
$17,367
paid to date
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Quarterly safety rates
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2025 Q4 7,363 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 8,200 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 8,026 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 7,885 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 7,436 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 7,879 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 7,243 1 0 138.1
2022 Q2 7,862 0 0 0.0
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

4 on file

2020 · 1 incident

August 29, 2020 UT · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Hunter Prep Plant, LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee was operating a 834 RTD, when they stopped and exited the machine, employee was in the process of closing the operators cabin door when they inadvertently had fingers between the door and door frame, smashing the middle finger on left hand.

2004 · 1 incident

June 4, 2004 UT · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Energy West Mining Company · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was holding a metal plate to repair a hole in a coal chute. The piece of metal slipped and pinched his finger which pulled off his left thumb nail and caused some small laceration on the nail bed which required stitches.

2001 · 1 incident

June 12, 2001 UT · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Energy West Mining Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

THE EE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF CLIMBING UPON THE D9 CAT AND AS HE LIFTED HIS LEG UP HE FELT HIS KNEE POP.

2000 · 1 incident

June 30, 2000 UT · Coal carpenter HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Energy West Mining Company · Struck by falling object

EE WAS LAYING UNDER PIECE OF EQUIPMENT WORKING, ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WORKING ABOVE HIM DROPPED A PIECE OF METAL AND IT LANDED ON INJURED IN HIS NECK.