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Vernal Pit & Mill, Uintah County, Utah: 33 MSHA citations

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Updated November 6, 2026. Source: US Department of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), Open Government Data Sets.

Vernal Pit & Mill is an active phosphate rock processing facility in Uintah County, Utah, operated by Simplot Phosphates LLC with 140 employees on MSHA's record (mine ID 4200998). Since January 1, 2022 MSHA inspectors issued 33 citations and orders there with $5,687 in proposed penalties, and 13 accident reports were filed there, with 13 injury or illness cases.

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MSHA mine ID: 4200998
Status: Active since April 2, 1992
Main commodity: Phosphate rock
Mine type: Facility
County: Uintah County, Utah
Nearest town: Vernal
Operator: Simplot Phosphates LLC
Employees: 140
MSHA field office: Price UT Field Office
Citations and orders since January 1, 2022: 33
Significant and substantial: 3 (9.1%)
Closure orders: 0
High negligence or reckless: 0
Proposed penalties: $5,687
Amount paid so far: $5,687
Inspections: 17
Inspector hours on site: 558
Citations per inspection: 1.94 (all mines 2.30)
Accident reports: 13
Injury and illness cases: 13
Fatalities: 0
Latest MSHA record: October 12, 2026
Citations issued to contractors here: 7 ($1,257 proposed)

Citations and injury cases by year

Calendar years since 2022; 2026 runs to the date of the MSHA files.

Year	Citations and orders	Significant and substantial	Proposed penalties	Injury and illness cases
2022	6	0	$844	2
2023	13	3	$3,741	4
2024	3	0	$533	3
2025	3	0	$569	1
2026	8	0	$0	3

Standards cited most at Vernal Pit & Mill

Sections of Title 30 of the Code of Federal Regulations named on the citations, with the part each belongs to.

Standard	What the part covers	Citations
30 CFR 56.14100	Surface metal and nonmetal mines	5
30 CFR 56.12018	Surface metal and nonmetal mines	4
30 CFR 56.4101	Surface metal and nonmetal mines	3
30 CFR 56.12008	Surface metal and nonmetal mines	2
30 CFR 56.12028	Surface metal and nonmetal mines	2
30 CFR 56.4201	Surface metal and nonmetal mines	2
30 CFR 56.12030	Surface metal and nonmetal mines	2
30 CFR 56.14107	Surface metal and nonmetal mines	1
30 CFR 56.4104	Surface metal and nonmetal mines	1
30 CFR 56.12004	Surface metal and nonmetal mines	1
30 CFR 56.12020	Surface metal and nonmetal mines	1
30 CFR 56.11001	Surface metal and nonmetal mines	1
30 CFR 56.16001	Surface metal and nonmetal mines	1
30 CFR 56.14130	Surface metal and nonmetal mines	1
30 CFR 56.4203	Surface metal and nonmetal mines	1

Injury and illness cases at Vernal Pit & Mill

Accident reports by degree of injury, as the operator reported them to MSHA.

Degree	Cases
Days away from work or restricted activity	5
No lost time, or an occupational illness	8

What the accident reports at Vernal Pit & Mill describe

Accident classification, as MSHA codes the circumstances that contributed most directly.

Classification	Reports
Handling of materials	6
Handtools (nonpowered)	3
Slip or fall of person	2
Stepping or kneeling on object	1
Machinery	1

Equipment named in accident reports at Vernal Pit & Mill

Equipment	Reports
Ore haulage trucks - off highway trucks	3
Hand tools (not powered)	2
Hoist	1
Bulldozer	1
Crane	1

Other open mines in Uintah County, Utah

Mine	Operator	County	Main commodity	Employees	Citations since 2022
Bonanza Mines	American Gilsonite Company	Uintah County, UT	Gilsonite	70	46
Bonanza Process Plant	American Gilsonite Company	Uintah County, UT	Gilsonite	24	30
Wildcat Sand Plant	Wildcat Sand LLC	Uintah County, UT	Sand, common	2	28
Cottonwood Mines	American Gilsonite Company	Uintah County, UT	Gilsonite	10	24
David L. Murray Trust	David L. Murray Trust	Uintah County, UT	Construction sand and gravel	2	21
KW Crushing	KW Crushing	Uintah County, UT	Construction sand and gravel	4	12
Kwtlp1	KW Crushing	Uintah County, UT	Construction sand and gravel	2	11
TRM Mine and Mill	Table Rock Minerals LLC	Uintah County, UT	Gilsonite	4	5
Wall Pit And Plant	Intermountain Concrete Co.	Uintah County, UT	Construction sand and gravel	2	4
Randlett Pit	Sunroc Corporation	Uintah County, UT	Construction sand and gravel	4	2
TRM Mill	Table Rock Minerals LLC	Uintah County, UT	Gilsonite	2	0

US government work, public domain. Counts come from the MSHA files published on November 6, 2026. An open mine is one MSHA lists as Active, Intermittent, New Mine, Temporarily Idled or NonProducing; 13,673 were open that day. Citations, penalties, inspections and accident reports run from January 1, 2022. A citation is an inspector's allegation and an operator can contest it; the penalty is the amount MSHA first proposed, before any contest or settlement. An operator is the legal entity MSHA assesses, and a parent company is its controller. Mines run by sole proprietors or by individuals are counted in every total and are not named. This page uses MSHA data and is not endorsed or certified by MSHA. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.