MINE DETAILS
Ashdown Mine
MSHA MINE ID2600578
LOCATION
Mine location
1 of 1 mine with usable MSHA coordinates. Select a marker to open a mine.
Mine coordinates
- Ashdown Mine41.85861, -118.72778Open map ↗
Quarterly trends
2025 Q1 – 2026 Q4
Database snapshot · 2026-10-13. MSHA quarterly production and employment reports.
Coal production
—reported short tons
Hours worked
—reported employee hours
Tons per hour
—production ÷ hours worked
Missing values appear as —. Totals use available reports. Tons per hour requires production and hours for the same quarters and a nonzero hours total. * Striped bars mark partial mine coverage or an incomplete quarter. See the table for coverage.
Quarterly data and reporting coverage
| Quarter | Coal (short tons) | Hours worked | Tons / hour | Avg. employees | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 Q1 | — | — | — | — | No report |
| 2025 Q2 | — | — | — | — | No report |
| 2025 Q3 | — | — | — | — | No report |
| 2025 Q4 | — | — | — | — | No report |
| 2026 Q1 | — | — | — | — | No report |
| 2026 Q2 | — | — | — | — | No report |
| 2026 Q3 | — | — | — | — | No report |
| 2026 Q4 | — | — | — | — | No report |
Safety and enforcement
2025-01-01 – 2026-10-13
Violations
00 significant & substantial (S&S)
Accident records
00 records classified as fatality
Proposed penalties · USD
—0 of 0 violations with amounts
On-site inspection hours
—0 inspections · 0 with hours
Counts are published records, including contractor records. * The quarter was incomplete at the snapshot date; recent counts may rise as reports arrive. — means no reported amount or hours. Portfolio totals use current membership.
Quarterly safety data
| Quarter | Violations | S&S | Proposed USD | Accident records | Fatality records | Inspections | On-site hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-Q1 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2025-Q2 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2025-Q3 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2025-Q4 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2026-Q1 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2026-Q2 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2026-Q3 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2026-Q4 * | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
Most cited CFR sections
All violations issued in the selected period. Counts combine subsections.
| Section | Violations | S&S |
|---|
No violation records in this period.
Safety activity
No matching records in this period.
Safety sources and definitions
MSHA Violations (issue date), Accidents (accident date), and Inspections (begin date). Snapshot 2026-10-13.
Counts describe published rows, including contractor records; accident records are not distinct incidents or numbers of people injured.
Zero means no matching records in the imported sources, not proof of no events. Historical coverage differs by source; absence before a source begins reporting is not a zero incident rate. Invalid or absent dates and records after the snapshot are excluded.
S&S means SIG_SUB=Y. Fatality records use DEGREE_INJURY_CD=01. Proposed penalties are not final assessed or paid amounts; missing dollar values are omitted.
Inspection hours are SUM_TOTAL_ON_SITE_HOURS attributed to the inspection start date, without supervisor/trainee hours. Missing hours are omitted; a started inspection may still be open.
Portfolio totals use current mine membership, including events before the current owner or operator's tenure.
CFR headings link to the current Title 30 index; they are not historical legal determinations.
OWNERSHIP
Operator and controller history
Current ownership comes from MSHA Mines. Historical start and end dates come from MSHA Controller and Operator History.
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Win-Eldrich Mines LtdcontrolsAshdown Project LLCoperatesAshdown Mine
msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 2600578—
Ken Ripley et alcontrolsGolden Phoenix Minerals Inc.operatesAshdown Mine
msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 2600578—
Inco LtdcontrolsAmerican Copper & Nickel Company IncoperatesAshdown Mine
msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 2600578Other historical summaries · source-specific periods
RECORD SUMMARY
Production, safety and enforcement
These summaries use the periods stated on each card, independently of the reporting period above.
01 / SAFETYneutral
Accidents and injuries
24 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 1,563 lost days across the published record.
ACCIDENT + INJURY RECORD0 since 2021
accidentsmine-production-quarterly02 / COMPLIANCEneutral
Violations and penalties
378 violation rows across the full record; 113 carry an S&S flag and $261,046 appears in current assessed amounts.
ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITY0 since 2021
inspectionsviolationsassessed-violationsorders-107a03 / HEALTHwatch
Occupational health samples
55 personal. 11 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.
OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE55 samples
personal-health-samples04 / PRODUCTIONcontext
Quarterly production and employment
576 employee hours and 3 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
2016-Q40 tons
mine-production-quarterlymine-production-yearly05 / LEGALwatch
Contests, conferences and decisions
57 contested-violation rows, 57 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 46 conference records linked by issuance number.
POST-ISSUANCE LIFECYCLE160 linked rows
conferencescontested-violationscivil-penalty-dockets-decisions06 / CONTRACTORScontext
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.
ENTITY-LEVEL CONTEXT1 linked entities
contractor-production-quarterlycontractor-production-yearlyaccidentsviolations07 / INSPECTIONScontext
Inspections
88 inspection events and 3K published inspection hours across the historical record.
OVERSIGHT COVERAGE0 since 2021
inspectionsviolationsHEALTH SAMPLING
Silica and quartz
Coal quartz, metal/nonmetal personal samples and area samples. Snapshot Oct 13, 2026. 8 silica records across the mine’s published history.
Personal silica samples · concentration / limit
Quarterly mean · published C/E ratio
— No eligible measurements. * Quarter in progress. Means describe the available samples, not average exposure across the mine.
Quartz % is the sample’s quartz content; µg/m³ is its reported concentration. Personal C/E is the ratio to the limit published with that sample. Personal and area concentration units and void status are not specified in those source files.
| Date / sample | Dataset / analyte | Occupation / area | Measurement | Sample status | Published action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No silica records match these filters. Missing samples do not establish safe conditions. | |||||
Sources and interpretation
- Coal means use numeric concentrations from samples marked not voided, excluding control/invalid sample types and dates after the snapshot. Missing values remain null; reported zeroes remain zero.
- Quarterly means describe available samples, not mine-wide or worker-average exposure. Quarters with no eligible measurements remain empty; the current quarter is partial.
- Personal C/E is MSHA's published concentration-to-limit ratio. A value above 1 is not by itself a citation or a determination under the 2024 silica rule. Personal and area files do not publish a void-status field.
- Area records include bulk-dust analyses and are kept separate from personal exposure results. Their concentration units are not specified in the source dictionary.
- Missing samples do not establish safe conditions. Coal quartz percentage and concentration are separate measures. No compliance threshold is inferred for coal samples.
Coal quartz field definitions ↗Metal/nonmetal personal field definitions ↗Metal/nonmetal area field definitions ↗
EIA + TITLE 30
EIA production and cited regulations
EIA annual figures are reported separately from MSHA. Regulation links use the current eCFR snapshot.
Not present in the 2024 EIA coal workbook.
This can mean the operation is non-coal, inactive for the annual period, or outside the EIA-7A reporting population.
30 CFR 57.12028Testing grounding systems.2 recent rows ↗30 CFR 57.11002Handrails and toeboards.1 recent row ↗30 CFR 47.41Requirement for container labels.2 recent rows ↗30 CFR 57.20003Housekeeping.1 recent row ↗30 CFR 57.4101Warning signs.1 recent row ↗30 CFR 57.4201Inspection.2 recent rows ↗30 CFR 57.4430Surface storage facilities.1 recent row ↗30 CFR 41.12Changes; notification by operator.1 recent row ↗
RECENT PUBLIC RECORDS
Recent violations and samples
Latest records retained for inspection; aggregates above use the full source history.
887606857.12028Citation
887606757.11002Citation
887602247.41(a)Citation
887602157.20003(a)S&S
886912757.4101Citation
886912657.4201(a)(2)Citation
886912557.4430(a)(3)Citation
886904657.12028Citation
Coal dust, noise and other contaminants. Silica records above ↑
TC @ 160Nipper, Supply Man
C/E: 00.69Concentration: 0111.00 · limit: 0160.00Source unit unspecified
EC @ 160Nipper, Supply Man
C/E: 00.28Concentration: 0045.00 · limit: 0160.00Source unit unspecified
TC from EC @ 160Nipper, Supply Man
C/E: 00.00Concentration: 0000.00 · limit: 0160.00Source unit unspecified
TC @ 160Nipper, Supply Man
C/E: 00.60Concentration: 0096.00 · limit: 0160.00Source unit unspecified
EC @ 160Nipper, Supply Man
C/E: 00.26Concentration: 0041.00 · limit: 0160.00Source unit unspecified
TC from EC @ 160Nipper, Supply Man
C/E: 00.00Concentration: 0000.00 · limit: 0160.00Source unit unspecified
TC @ 160Nipper, Supply Man
C/E: 02.29Concentration: 0367.00 · limit: 0160.00Source unit unspecified
EC @ 160Nipper, Supply Man
C/E: 01.91Concentration: 0305.00 · limit: 0160.00Source unit unspecified
SOURCE COVERAGE
Reporting dates and coverage
15 datasets contain linked records. Missing datasets are listed below.
DATASETROWSWINDOWSTATUS
Accident, Injuries, and Illnessessafety · contractors24Oct 3, 2005—Jul 27, 2010mine-keyed
Addresses of Recordidentity · logistics1Apr 5, 2017—Apr 5, 2017mine-keyed
Assessed Violationscompliance · legal354Sep 21, 2005—Aug 13, 2015mine-keyed
Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisionscompliance · legal57Aug 16, 2007—Sep 21, 2011mine-keyed
Coal Dust Sampleshealth · safety—No published rowsabsent / not applicable
Conferencescompliance · legal46Aug 14, 2007—Apr 4, 2014mine-keyed
Contested Violationscompliance · legal57Nov 16, 2006—Jul 14, 2010mine-keyed
Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterlycontractors · production · safety17Not published—Not publishedentity-linked
Contractor Employment and Production — Yearlycontractors · production · safety3Not published—Not publishedentity-linked
Controller and Operator Historyidentity · compliance3Jun 1, 1982—Jul 1, 2007mine-keyed
Mine Employment and Production — Quarterlyproduction · safety · compliance176Not published—Not publishedmine-keyed
Mine Employment and Production — Yearlyproduction · safety · compliance35Not published—Not publishedmine-keyed
Inspectionssafety · compliance88Sep 21, 2005—Apr 3, 2017mine-keyed
Minesidentity · production · logistics1Not published—Not publishedmine-keyed
Metal and Nonmetal Area Sampleshealth · safety—No published rowsabsent / not applicable
Metal and Nonmetal Personal Health Sampleshealth · safety55May 23, 2007—Mar 1, 2011mine-keyed
Noise Sampleshealth · safety · equipment—No published rowsabsent / not applicable
Quartz Samples — Coalhealth · safety—No published rowsabsent / not applicable
Violationscompliance · safety · legal378Sep 21, 2005—Aug 13, 2015mine-keyed
107(a) Orders Issuedsafety · compliance—No published rowsabsent / not applicable
NOTES
Limitations
- Contractor production is entity-level and is never represented as mine-attributable.
- Missing rows can mean no event, publication delay, identity mismatch, or inapplicability.