# Leonardite Products Mine&Mill Operation

- **MSHA mine ID:** 3200652
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Leonardite
- **Location:** Williams, ND
- **Operator:** Leonardite Products, LLC
- **Controller:** PWP LLC; Joe  Murphy; Cherie  Harms
- **Public source rows linked:** 700
- **Source coverage:** 15 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**PWP LLC; Joe  Murphy; Cherie  Harms (0175000) → Leonardite Products, LLC (0085804) → Leonardite Products Mine&Mill Operation (3200652)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Frank  Lodzinski → GeoResources Inc:** 1980-11-01 through 2008-01-08; derived from co-tenure at mine 3200652; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Rod P  Smith et al → Leonardite Products, LLC:** 2008-01-09 through 2012-06-10; derived from co-tenure at mine 3200652; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Mary  Mahar et al → Leonardite Products, LLC:** 2012-06-11 through 2023-03-14; derived from co-tenure at mine 3200652; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Cherie  Harms et al → Leonardite Products, LLC:** 2012-06-11 through 2023-03-14; derived from co-tenure at mine 3200652; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Cherie  Harms et al → Leonardite Products, LLC:** 2023-03-15 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3200652; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Joe  Murphy et al → Leonardite Products, LLC:** 2023-03-15 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3200652; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **PWP LLC et al → Leonardite Products, LLC:** 2023-03-15 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3200652; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 7
- Typed edges: 13
- 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: 2026-10-17T05:35:58.500035+00:00.

## Assessment signals

1. **SAFETY — 1 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 12 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 54 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 41 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 177 violation rows across the full record; 52 carry an S&S flag and $70,730 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 57 samples:** Occupational health samples 57 personal. 2 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 3K employee hours and 11 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 58 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 28 contested-violation rows, 28 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 2 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 3 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 — 15 since 2021:** Inspections 79 inspection events and 2K 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 56.12028 — Testing grounding systems.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12028
- **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 50.10 — Immediate notification.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-B/section-50.10
- **30 CFR 57.4500 — Heat sources.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-C/section-57.4500
- **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 56.4201 — 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 56.14207 — 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 56.12032 — Inspection and cover plates.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12032
- **30 CFR 56.20003 — Housekeeping.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-S/section-56.20003
- **30 CFR 56.11001 — Safe access.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-J/section-56.11001
- **30 CFR 56.12018 — Identification of power switches.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12018

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 12 rows; 2001-10-22 through 2026-05-02; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2010-03-29 through 2010-03-29; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 175 rows; 2000-04-25 through 2026-05-06; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 28 rows; 2011-02-01 through 2025-06-13; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Conferences:** 2 rows; 2002-11-25 through 2002-11-25; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 28 rows; 2010-03-16 through 2025-01-14; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 14 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 5 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 7 rows; 1980-11-01 through 2008-01-09; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 79 rows; 2000-04-25 through 2026-05-04; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 34 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 80 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:** 57 rows; 2001-05-16 through 2025-12-18; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 177 rows; 2000-04-25 through 2026-05-06; 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/leonardite-products-mine-mill-operation-3200652`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/leonardite-products-mine-mill-operation-3200652`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/3200652/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/3200652/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://3200652/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`
