Mining Incidents

CASTLE VALLEY PREP PLANT Coal

Controlled by Wolverine Fuels LLC
Wellington, Carbon County, UT  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4202455

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2022
Latest incident
Apr 2022
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2010
29
citations
5
significant & substantial
$3,726
proposed penalties
$3,726
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 2,234 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 2,382 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 3,205 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 3,020 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 3,182 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 3,457 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 4,889 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 4,256 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

1 on file

2022 · 1 incident

April 7, 2022 UT · Coal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Canyon Fuel Company LLC · Struck by falling object

A plugged chute switch shut the plant feed belt off. An individual reported to the chute. EE saw 6" - 18" rock plugging the grizzly in the chute. EE attempted to dislodge one of the rocks with hand. Another rock dislodged dropping onto EE's hand smashing the right hand, little finger between the two rocks. The outside edge of EE's little finger was lacerated requiring stitches.