MINE DETAILS
Lyons Mine
MSHA MINE ID1400413
LOCATION
Mine location
1 of 1 mine with usable MSHA coordinates. Select a marker to open a mine.
Mine coordinates
- Lyons Mine38.33306, -98.19000Open map ↗
Quarterly trends
2025 Q1 – 2026 Q4
Database snapshot · 2026-10-13. MSHA quarterly production and employment reports.
Coal production
0reported short tons
Hours worked
249,713reported employee hours
Tons per hour
0.00production ÷ 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 | 0 | 42,311 | 0.00 | 61 | 1/1 mines reporting |
| 2025 Q2 | 0 | 44,320 | 0.00 | 57 | 1/1 mines reporting |
| 2025 Q3 | 0 | 37,987 | 0.00 | 62 | 1/1 mines reporting |
| 2025 Q4 | 0 | 37,738 | 0.00 | 62 | 1/1 mines reporting |
| 2026 Q1 | 0 | 43,916 | 0.00 | 70 | 1/1 mines reporting |
| 2026 Q2 | 0 | 43,441 | 0.00 | 70 | 1/1 mines reporting |
| 2026 Q3 | — | — | — | — | No report |
| 2026 Q4 | — | — | — | — | No report |
Safety and enforcement
2025-01-01 – 2026-10-13
Violations
10414 significant & substantial (S&S)
Accident records
40 records classified as fatality
Proposed penalties · USD
45,581.00101 of 104 violations with amounts
On-site inspection hours
334.5013 inspections · 13 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 | 19 | 2 | 3,607.00 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 62.8 |
| 2025-Q2 | 22 | 2 | 11,199.00 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 44.8 |
| 2025-Q3 | 7 | 1 | 2,436.00 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 40.8 |
| 2025-Q4 | 16 | 5 | 9,088.00 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 47.3 |
| 2026-Q1 | 11 | 1 | 3,563.00 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 36.3 |
| 2026-Q2 | 17 | 2 | 13,732.00 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 56.8 |
| 2026-Q3 | 12 | 1 | 1,956.00 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 46.0 |
| 2026-Q4 * | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
Most cited CFR sections
All violations issued in the selected period. Counts combine subsections.
Safety activity
Compliance Follow-up Inspection · 1.3 on-site hours
57.9315 · S&S
Verbal Hazard Complaint Inspections · 3.0 on-site hours
Verbal Hazard Complaint Inspections · 5.5 on-site hours
57.18002(b)
Compliance Follow-up Inspection · 0.0 on-site hours
50.20-1 · $151.00 proposed
57.4260(c) · $177.00 proposed
57.4201(a)(1) · $177.00 proposed
57.14100(b) · $313.00 proposed
57.14101(a)(3) · $209.00 proposed
57.14112(a)(1) · $151.00 proposed
47.44(b) · $151.00 proposed
57.4200(b)(2) · $209.00 proposed
57.20003(a) · $209.00 proposed
57.20003(a) · $209.00 proposed
Regular Safety and Health Inspection · 36.3 on-site hours
HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) · NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
Accident narrative
The employee was cutting a zip tie with a utility knife in right hand, after cutting through, the forward motion of their arm/hand allowed the knife to cut into their arm about three inches above their wrist. Three sutures were used on the laceration.
57.14112(b) · $313.00 proposed
57.20003(a) · S&S · $1,679.00 proposed
57.20003(a) · $336.00 proposed
57.12030 · $336.00 proposed
57.14100(b) · $336.00 proposed
57.4200(b)(2) · $336.00 proposed
57.4200(b)(2) · $336.00 proposed
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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SCIH Salt Holdings, InccontrolsLyons Salt CompanyoperatesLyons Mine
msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 1400413—
Kissner Group Holdings LPcontrolsLyons Salt CompanyoperatesLyons Mine
msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 1400413—
Compass Minerals International, Inc.controlsNorth American Salt CompanyoperatesLyons Mine
msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 1400413—
Peter E PowellcontrolsLyons Salt CompanyoperatesLyons Mine
msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 1400413—
Harris Chemical GroupcontrolsNorth American Salt CompanyoperatesLyons Mine
msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 1400413—
General Host CorpcontrolsAmerican Salt CompanyoperatesLyons Mine
msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 1400413Other 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 / SAFETYwatch
Accidents and injuries
118 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 557 lost days across the published record.
ACCIDENT + INJURY RECORD10 since 2021
accidentsmine-production-quarterly02 / COMPLIANCEwatch
Violations and penalties
898 violation rows across the full record; 175 carry an S&S flag and $334,448 appears in current assessed amounts.
ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITY238 since 2021
inspectionsviolationsassessed-violationsorders-107a03 / HEALTHwatch
Occupational health samples
281 personal; 14 area. 25 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 EXPOSURE295 samples
personal-health-samplesarea-samples04 / PRODUCTIONcontext
Quarterly production and employment
43K employee hours and 70 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
2026-Q20 tons
mine-production-quarterlymine-production-yearly05 / LEGALwatch
Contests, conferences and decisions
117 contested-violation rows, 113 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 47 conference records linked by issuance number.
POST-ISSUANCE LIFECYCLE277 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 CONTEXT15 linked entities
contractor-production-quarterlycontractor-production-yearlyaccidentsviolations07 / INSPECTIONScontext
Inspections
207 inspection events and 8K published inspection hours across the historical record.
OVERSIGHT COVERAGE36 since 2021
inspectionsviolationsHEALTH SAMPLING
Silica and quartz
Coal quartz, metal/nonmetal personal samples and area samples. Snapshot Oct 13, 2026. 30 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 57.9315Dust control.1 recent row ↗30 CFR 57.18002Examination of working places.1 recent row ↗30 CFR 50.20-1General instructions for completing MSHA Form 7000-1.1 recent row ↗30 CFR 57.4260Underground self-propelled equipment.1 recent row ↗30 CFR 57.4201Inspection.1 recent row ↗30 CFR 57.14100Safety defects; examination, correction and records.1 recent row ↗30 CFR 57.14101Brakes.1 recent row ↗30 CFR 57.14112Construction and maintenance of guards.1 recent row ↗
RECENT PUBLIC RECORDS
Recent violations and samples
Latest records retained for inspection; aggregates above use the full source history.
521460457.9315S&S
521151857.18002(b)Citation
998972250.20-1Citation
504394557.4260(c)Citation
504096257.4201(a)(1)Citation
504394457.14100(b)Citation
504394357.14101(a)(3)Citation
504394257.14112(a)(1)Citation
Coal dust, noise and other contaminants. Silica records above ↑
Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% QtzCleanup Man
C/E: 00.00Concentration: 0031.00 · limit: 0000.00Source unit unspecified
Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% QtzDry Screen Plant Operator
C/E: 00.00Concentration: 0002.61 · limit: 0000.00Source unit unspecified
Unlisted Particulate, total, <1% QtzFront-end Loader Operator
C/E: 00.00Concentration: 0015.27 · limit: 0000.00Source unit unspecified
TC @ 160Drill Operator, Jumbo Perc.
C/E: 00.47Concentration: 0075.00 · limit: 0160.00Source unit unspecified
EC @ 160Blaster, Powder Gang
C/E: 00.45Concentration: 0072.00 · limit: 0160.00Source unit unspecified
TC from EC @ 160Blaster, Powder Gang
C/E: 00.00Concentration: 0000.00 · limit: 0160.00Source unit unspecified
TC @ 160Blaster, Powder Gang
C/E: 00.49Concentration: 0078.00 · limit: 0160.00Source unit unspecified
ORGANIC CARBONDrill Operator, Jumbo Perc.
C/E: 00.00Concentration: 0000.00 · limit: 0000.00Source unit unspecified
SOURCE COVERAGE
Reporting dates and coverage
16 datasets contain linked records. Missing datasets are listed below.
DATASETROWSWINDOWSTATUS
Accident, Injuries, and Illnessessafety · contractors118May 17, 2000—Jul 14, 2026mine-keyed
Addresses of Recordidentity · logistics1Jul 13, 1973—Jul 13, 1973mine-keyed
Assessed Violationscompliance · legal890Mar 2, 2000—Aug 13, 2026mine-keyed
Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisionscompliance · legal113Sep 10, 2009—Jun 24, 2015mine-keyed
Coal Dust Sampleshealth · safety—No published rowsabsent / not applicable
Conferencescompliance · legal47May 1, 2001—Sep 5, 2024mine-keyed
Contested Violationscompliance · legal117Mar 7, 2007—Feb 25, 2026mine-keyed
Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterlycontractors · production · safety1,657Not published—Not publishedentity-linked
Contractor Employment and Production — Yearlycontractors · production · safety367Not published—Not publishedentity-linked
Controller and Operator Historyidentity · compliance6Jan 1, 1950—Nov 20, 1990mine-keyed
Mine Employment and Production — Quarterlyproduction · safety · compliance375Not published—Not publishedmine-keyed
Mine Employment and Production — Yearlyproduction · safety · compliance92Not published—Not publishedmine-keyed
Inspectionssafety · compliance207Mar 1, 2000—Sep 15, 2026mine-keyed
Minesidentity · production · logistics1Not published—Not publishedmine-keyed
Metal and Nonmetal Area Sampleshealth · safety14Nov 5, 2013—Jun 23, 2026mine-keyed
Metal and Nonmetal Personal Health Sampleshealth · safety281Nov 15, 2000—Sep 13, 2026mine-keyed
Noise Sampleshealth · safety · equipment—No published rowsabsent / not applicable
Quartz Samples — Coalhealth · safety—No published rowsabsent / not applicable
Violationscompliance · safety · legal898Mar 2, 2000—Sep 15, 2026mine-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.