# Sheppard

- **MSHA mine ID:** 0901077
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Common Clays NEC
- **Location:** Baldwin, GA
- **Operator:** Arcilla Mining & Land, LLC
- **Controller:** Ted S  Smith
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,264
- **Source coverage:** 14 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Ted S  Smith (M30447) → Arcilla Mining & Land, LLC (0116325) → Sheppard (0901077)**

Current identity source: `msha-mines`. This is a current snapshot, not a historical claim.

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Ted S  Smith → Arcilla Mining & Land Company:** 1993-11-01 through 2011-01-02; derived from co-tenure at mine 0901077; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Ted S  Smith → Arcilla Mining & Land, LLC:** 2011-01-03 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 0901077; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 2
- Typed edges: 6
- Interval anomalies: 0
- Valid-time bounds: inclusive; date granularity; null end means open-ended in the upstream history row; not independent proof of present control.
- Transaction-time observation: 2026-10-13T11:19:05.459773+00:00.

## Assessment signals

1. **SAFETY — 2 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 5 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 396 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 5 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 63 violation rows across the full record; 10 carry an S&S flag and $7,590 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 8 samples:** Occupational health samples 8 personal. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 0 noise rows have an action-level or PEL dose above 100%. These are separate measures, not a silica exceedance count. Silica results and sample status are shown separately.
4. **PRODUCTION — 0 tons:** Quarterly production and employment 35K employee hours and 85 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 4 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 2 contested-violation rows, 2 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 0 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 5 linked entities:** Contractors Contractors are linked through this mine’s violation or accident records. Their production and hours cover all their operations, so they are not included in this mine’s totals.
7. **INSPECTIONS — 17 since 2021:** Inspections 69 inspection events and 884 published inspection hours across the historical record.

## EIA annual operating context

No matched record in the 2024 EIA coal-public workbook. This may be inapplicable for a non-coal operation.

## Recent Title 30 crosswalk

Snapshot current through 2026-08-19.

- **30 CFR 50.30 — Preparation and submission of MSHA Form 7000-2—Quarterly Employment and Coal Production Report.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-D/section-50.30
- **30 CFR 56.4201 — Inspection.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-C/section-56.4201
- **30 CFR 56.14100 — Safety defects; examination, correction and records.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14100
- **30 CFR 56.14131 — Seat belts for haulage trucks.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14131
- **30 CFR 56.14132 — Horns and backup alarms.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14132
- **30 CFR 56.4101 — Warning signs.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-C/section-56.4101
- **30 CFR 56.14207 — Parking procedures for unattended equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14207
- **30 CFR 56.16006 — Protection of gas cylinder valves.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-O/section-56.16006
- **30 CFR 56.12004 — Electrical conductors.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12004
- **30 CFR 56.12013 — Splices and repairs of power cables.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12013

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 5 rows; 2000-05-05 through 2025-10-16; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 1994-02-07 through 1994-02-07; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 63 rows; 2000-07-10 through 2024-09-04; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 2 rows; 2011-05-16 through 2011-06-17; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Contested Violations:** 2 rows; 2010-08-11 through 2010-12-07; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 699 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 150 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 1993-11-01 through 2011-01-03; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 69 rows; 2000-01-06 through 2026-06-03; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 159 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 40 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Metal and Nonmetal Personal Health Samples:** 8 rows; 2009-06-18 through 2025-09-04; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 63 rows; 2000-07-10 through 2024-09-04; source ID `msha-violations`

## Caveats

- This is public-record decision support, not legal advice or an official MSHA record.
- Missing data can indicate no event, publication delay, an unresolved identity, or inapplicability.
- Contractor production data is entity-level and is not attributed to this mine.

## Alternate representations

- HTML: `/mines/sheppard-0901077`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/sheppard-0901077`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/0901077/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/0901077/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://0901077/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`