# Lee Creek Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 3100212
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Phosphate Rock
- **Location:** Beaufort, NC
- **Operator:** PCS Phosphate Company Inc
- **Controller:** Nutrien LTD
- **Public source rows linked:** 13,893
- **Source coverage:** 15 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Nutrien LTD (0143123) → PCS Phosphate Company Inc (L14180) → Lee Creek Mine (3100212)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Societe Nationale Elf Aquitaine → Texasgulf Inc:** 1950-01-01 through 1995-04-09; derived from co-tenure at mine 3100212; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Potash Corp Of Saskatchewan → PCS Phosphate Company Inc:** 1995-04-10 through 2017-12-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 3100212; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Nutrien LTD → PCS Phosphate Company Inc:** 2018-01-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3100212; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 3
- Typed edges: 8
- 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 — 43 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 224 historical accident/injury rows; 1 coded fatalities and 3,839 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 131 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 1,471 violation rows across the full record; 315 carry an S&S flag and $922,616 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 362 samples:** Occupational health samples 362 personal. 1 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 228K employee hours and 377 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 331 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 116 contested-violation rows, 140 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 75 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 77 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 — 68 since 2021:** Inspections 303 inspection events and 18K 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 48.27 — Training of miners assigned to a task in which they have had no previous experience; minimum courses of instruction.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-B/section-48.27
- **30 CFR 56.20003 — Housekeeping.** (5 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-S/section-56.20003
- **30 CFR 56.14213 — Ventilation and shielding for welding.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14213
- **30 CFR 56.18002 — Examination of working places.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-Q/section-56.18002
- **30 CFR 47.41 — Requirement for container labels.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-47/subpart-E/section-47.41
- **30 CFR 56.14112 — Construction and maintenance of guards.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14112
- **30 CFR 56.14107 — Moving machine parts.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14107

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 224 rows; 2000-01-03 through 2026-08-14; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2008-05-01 through 2008-05-01; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 1,447 rows; 2000-01-24 through 2026-06-01; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 140 rows; 2000-12-20 through 2026-05-13; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Conferences:** 75 rows; 2002-04-01 through 2026-06-23; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 116 rows; 2003-09-09 through 2026-05-13; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 7,622 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 1,729 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 1950-01-01 through 1995-04-10; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 303 rows; 2000-01-24 through 2026-09-30; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 318 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 81 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:** 362 rows; 2002-01-29 through 2026-01-21; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 1,471 rows; 2000-01-24 through 2026-06-01; 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/lee-creek-mine-3100212`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/lee-creek-mine-3100212`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/3100212/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/3100212/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://3100212/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`