MINE DETAILS
Pontotoc Sands
MSHA MINE ID3402161
LOCATION
Mine location
1 of 1 mine with usable MSHA coordinates. Select a marker to open a mine.
Mine coordinates
- Pontotoc Sands34.65250, -96.52611Open 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
242,729reported 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 | 41,202 | 0.00 | 84 | 1/1 mines reporting |
| 2025 Q2 | 0 | 45,845 | 0.00 | 94 | 1/1 mines reporting |
| 2025 Q3 | 0 | 43,706 | 0.00 | 83 | 1/1 mines reporting |
| 2025 Q4 | 0 | 35,539 | 0.00 | 65 | 1/1 mines reporting |
| 2026 Q1 | 0 | 36,065 | 0.00 | 70 | 1/1 mines reporting |
| 2026 Q2 | 0 | 40,372 | 0.00 | 73 | 1/1 mines reporting |
| 2026 Q3 | — | — | — | — | No report |
| 2026 Q4 | — | — | — | — | No report |
Safety and enforcement
2025-01-01 – 2026-10-13
Violations
134 significant & substantial (S&S)
Accident records
10 records classified as fatality
Proposed penalties · USD
24,450.0013 of 13 violations with amounts
On-site inspection hours
69.008 inspections · 8 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 | 1 | 3.5 |
| 2025-Q2 | 1 | 1 | 642.00 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7.3 |
| 2025-Q3 | 3 | 0 | 453.00 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13.0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 3 | 0 | 467.00 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14.0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 2 | 2 | 22,226.00 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 10.0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 3 | 1 | 511.00 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 21.3 |
| 2026-Q3 | 1 | 0 | 151.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2026-Q4 * | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
Most cited CFR sections
All violations issued in the selected period. Counts combine subsections.
Safety activity
56.14107(a) · $151.00 proposed
56.12018 · $151.00 proposed
50.20(a) · $151.00 proposed
Regular Safety and Health Inspection · 21.3 on-site hours
103 (g) Written Notification Hazard Complaint Inspectio · 0.0 on-site hours
56.20003(a) · S&S · $209.00 proposed
Non-Fatal Accident Investigation · 10.0 on-site hours
56.14200 · S&S · $5,144.00 proposed
56.14105 · S&S · $17,082.00 proposed
HOISTING · DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT
Accident narrative
Personnel were attempting to determine why elevator would not run continuously. Belt was being tightened and tracked. Maintenance, arrived to assist. They reached to belt to feel belt tension. Belt started as they reached in, bucket grabbed their sleeve and pulled their arm in. Damaged shoulder bones. Still getting surgery to correct.
56.12008 · $165.00 proposed
Regular Safety and Health Inspection · 14.0 on-site hours
56.4104 · $151.00 proposed
56.14100(b) · $151.00 proposed
50.30(a) · $151.00 proposed
56.4402 · $151.00 proposed
56.14207 · $151.00 proposed
Regular Safety and Health Inspection · 13.0 on-site hours
Verbal Hazard Complaint Inspections · 6.8 on-site hours
Spot Inspection · 0.5 on-site hours
56.15007 · S&S · $642.00 proposed
Verbal Hazard Complaint Inspections · 3.5 on-site hours
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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Joshua LehdecontrolsPontotoc Sands Company LLCoperatesPontotoc Sands
msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 3402161—
Joshua Lehde et alcontrolsPontotoc Sands Company LLCoperatesPontotoc Sands
msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 3402161—
Castle Lake LP et alcontrolsPontotoc Sands Company LLCoperatesPontotoc Sands
msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 3402161—
DeeJay Huckie et alcontrolsPontotoc Sands Company LLCoperatesPontotoc Sands
msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 3402161—
Joshua Lehde et alcontrolsPontotoc Sands Company LLCoperatesPontotoc Sands
msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 3402161Other 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
12 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 182 lost days across the published record.
ACCIDENT + INJURY RECORD10 since 2021
accidentsmine-production-quarterly02 / COMPLIANCEwatch
Violations and penalties
98 violation rows across the full record; 24 carry an S&S flag and $51,997 appears in current assessed amounts.
ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITY64 since 2021
inspectionsviolationsassessed-violationsorders-107a03 / HEALTHcontext
Occupational health samples
20 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.
OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE20 samples
personal-health-samples04 / PRODUCTIONcontext
Quarterly production and employment
40K employee hours and 73 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
2026-Q20 tons
mine-production-quarterlymine-production-yearly05 / LEGALwatch
Contests, conferences and decisions
6 contested-violation rows, 6 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 0 conference records linked by issuance number.
POST-ISSUANCE LIFECYCLE12 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 CONTEXT10 linked entities
contractor-production-quarterlycontractor-production-yearlyaccidentsviolations07 / INSPECTIONScontext
Inspections
29 inspection events and 615 published inspection hours across the historical record.
OVERSIGHT COVERAGE21 since 2021
inspectionsviolationsHEALTH SAMPLING
Silica and quartz
Coal quartz, metal/nonmetal personal samples and area samples. Snapshot Oct 13, 2026. 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 000000202602714300 | Metal/nonmetal personalQuartz, respirable, >1% Qtz | Front-end Loader Operator | 0× published limitConcentration: 0000.30 · limit: 0000.00Source unit unspecified | Not reported | NO ACTIONInspection F045B3E |
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 56.14107Moving machine parts.1 recent row ↗30 CFR 56.12018Identification of power switches.1 recent row ↗30 CFR 50.20Preparation and submission of MSHA Report Form 7000-1—Mine Accident, Injury, and Illness Report.1 recent row ↗30 CFR 56.20003Housekeeping.1 recent row ↗30 CFR 56.14200Warnings prior to starting or moving equipment.1 recent row ↗30 CFR 56.14105Procedures during repairs or maintenance.1 recent row ↗30 CFR 56.12008Insulation and fittings for power wires and cables.1 recent row ↗30 CFR 56.4104Combustible waste.1 recent row ↗
RECENT PUBLIC RECORDS
Recent violations and samples
Latest records retained for inspection; aggregates above use the full source history.
517566956.14107(a)Citation
517566856.12018Citation
517566750.20(a)Citation
517566656.20003(a)S&S
500374856.14200S&S
500374756.14105S&S
500389856.12008Citation
500389756.4104Citation
Coal dust, noise and other contaminants. Silica records above ↑
Respirable dust, <.1mgRotary Bucket Ex. Operator
C/E: 00.00Concentration: 0000.00 · limit: 0000.00Source unit unspecified
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% QtzUtility Man
C/E: 00.00Concentration: 0001.77 · limit: 0000.00Source unit unspecified
Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% QtzCrusher Oper/Worker
C/E: 00.00Concentration: 0000.45 · limit: 0000.00Source unit unspecified
Respirable dust, <.1mgCrusher Oper/Worker
C/E: 00.00Concentration: 0000.00 · limit: 0000.00Source unit unspecified
Respirable dust, <.1mgFront-end Loader Operator
C/E: 00.00Concentration: 0000.00 · limit: 0000.00Source unit unspecified
Respirable dust, <.1mgUtility Man
C/E: 00.00Concentration: 0000.00 · limit: 0000.00Source unit unspecified
Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% QtzLaborer, Bullgang
C/E: 00.09Concentration: 0000.94 · limit: 0010.00Source unit unspecified
Respirable dust, <.1mgTruck Driver
C/E: 00.00Concentration: 0000.00 · limit: 0000.00Source unit unspecified
SOURCE COVERAGE
Reporting dates and coverage
14 datasets contain linked records. Missing datasets are listed below.
DATASETROWSWINDOWSTATUS
Accident, Injuries, and Illnessessafety · contractors12Sep 22, 2018—Feb 6, 2026mine-keyed
Addresses of Recordidentity · logistics1Oct 1, 2020—Oct 1, 2020mine-keyed
Assessed Violationscompliance · legal97Mar 28, 2017—Jul 1, 2026mine-keyed
Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisionscompliance · legal6Mar 12, 2019—Mar 28, 2024mine-keyed
Coal Dust Sampleshealth · safety—No published rowsabsent / not applicable
Conferencescompliance · legal—No published rowsabsent / not applicable
Contested Violationscompliance · legal6Aug 21, 2018—Feb 9, 2026mine-keyed
Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterlycontractors · production · safety773Not published—Not publishedentity-linked
Contractor Employment and Production — Yearlycontractors · production · safety176Not published—Not publishedentity-linked
Controller and Operator Historyidentity · compliance5Feb 27, 2017—Feb 27, 2017mine-keyed
Mine Employment and Production — Quarterlyproduction · safety · compliance76Not published—Not publishedmine-keyed
Mine Employment and Production — Yearlyproduction · safety · compliance20Not published—Not publishedmine-keyed
Inspectionssafety · compliance29Mar 28, 2017—Jun 29, 2026mine-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 · safety20May 31, 2017—Jun 30, 2026mine-keyed
Noise Sampleshealth · safety · equipment—No published rowsabsent / not applicable
Quartz Samples — Coalhealth · safety—No published rowsabsent / not applicable
Violationscompliance · safety · legal98Mar 28, 2017—Jul 1, 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.