Mining Incidents

Jones Pit Metal/Non-Metal

Cottondale, Jackson County, FL  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0801212

Jones Pit has $12K in proposed MSHA penalties and $657 outstanding across 2 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2019
Latest incident
Jan 2019
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
82
citations
20
significant & substantial
$12,058
proposed penalties
$11,793
paid to date
98% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $265 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
43
inspections on record
376
inspection hours
n/a
citations per 100 inspection hours
This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
Rate withheld: 376 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Jones Pit has $12K in proposed MSHA penalties and $657 outstanding across 2 contested dockets.

Penalty disposition
Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
$12K
proposed penalties
$12K
current assessed
$12K
paid to date
$657
outstanding
82 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-03-13.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Quarterly safety rates
Citations per million reported employee-hours. Rates begin in 2000, when MSHA's quarterly employment data starts; earlier incidents are counted but cannot be rate-adjusted. Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2025 Q4 7,668 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 7,168 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 4,262 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 5,834 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 5,578 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 5,479 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 6,181 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 6,508 1 0 153.7
Show 56 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 3,436 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 2,037 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 2,406 6 2 2493.8
2023 Q1 3,273 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 7,141 2 1 280.1
2022 Q3 7,097 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 7,261 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 6,550 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 7,233 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 8,404 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 6,749 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 7,549 1 0 132.5
2020 Q4 10,466 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 7,550 2 1 264.9
2020 Q2 6,579 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 6,582 1 1 151.9
2019 Q4 5,240 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 5,289 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 5,279 4 3 757.7
2019 Q1 2,671 1 0 374.4
2018 Q4 2,521 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 3,526 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 2,213 1 0 451.9
2018 Q1 2,248 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 1,683 1 0 594.2
2017 Q3 823 1 0 1215.1
2017 Q1 0 0 0
2008 Q1 0 0 0
2007 Q4 0 0 0
2007 Q3 0 0 0
2007 Q2 0 0 0
2007 Q1 0 0 0
2005 Q4 0 0 0
2005 Q3 0 0 0
2005 Q2 0 0 0
2005 Q1 0 0 0
2004 Q4 0 0 0
2004 Q3 0 0 0
2004 Q2 15 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 352 2 0 5681.8
2003 Q4 792 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 939 3 0 3194.9
2003 Q2 1,405 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 2,767 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 1,500 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 1,451 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 2,904 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 5,503 2 0 363.4
2001 Q4 6,392 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 8,878 20 4 2252.8
2001 Q2 8,799 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 5,056 4 0 791.1
2000 Q4 4,436 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 6,972 23 8 3298.9
2000 Q2 5,982 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 6,819 5 0 733.2
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2019 · 1 incident

January 29, 2019 FL · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer MACHINERY
White Holding Company, LLC · Struck by flying object

Employee got something in eye causing irritation

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The full compliance file on Jones Pit

A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.