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Jones Pit: 84 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

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

Jones Pit has $12K in proposed MSHA penalties and $959 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
84
citations
20
significant & substantial
$12,360
proposed penalties
$11,793
paid to date
95% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $567 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See White Holding Company, LLC's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
44
inspections on record
381
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: 381 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 $959 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
$13K
current assessed
$12K
paid to date
$959
outstanding
82 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
Of $1K in penalties contested before the Commission, $0 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-07-08.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
ⓘ Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
23.8%
significant & substantial
9.5%
high negligence or reckless
23.8%
reasonably likely or greater
63.1%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 9.5% low, 81.0% moderate, 9.5% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Contested penalties
ⓘ A reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.
Largest penalties this mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
SE 20010020M Withdrawal 2001 $1K → $0
SE 20010019M Withdrawal 2001 $55 → $0
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.
Health sampling
ⓘ A sample is a point in time compliance measurement, not an individual exposure history. These figures describe MSHA sampling records and do not establish causation or personal dose.

Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
ⓘ Many samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.

Last sampled: 2025-09-18
7
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg7
Show the individual readings (7)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2025-09-18 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2025-09-18 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2025-09-18 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2022-12-21 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2022-12-21 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
2019-02-06 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2019-02-06 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly. Metal/nonmetal contaminant figures come from MSHA's Personal Health Samples and Area Samples files (public record), updated weekly.

Jones Pit recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2025.

Injury rate, 2025
ⓘ This rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
No reportable injury cases in any year shown. Employee-hours were reported in each of those years, so these are true zeros rather than missing data. Citations, listed in the compliance record above, are inspector-found violations and are counted separately from worker injuries.
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.65 and the all-US-mining average was 1.97 cases per 100 workers.
In Florida, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.33 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2025 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2024 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2022 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2021 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2020 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2001 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2000 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Ownership history
  1. White Construction, Inc 1993 to 2016
  2. White Holding Company, LLC 2017 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 8
2025 8
2024 10
2023 6
2022 9
2021 9
2020 10
2019 8
2018 5
2017 2
2008 0
2007 0
2005 0
2004 1
2003 3
2002 6
2001 11
2000 10
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Jones Pit sits in Jackson County, Florida, where the Census mining category is 0.4% of county employment.

Local economic context
ⓘ County figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.
Jackson County, Florida · Population 47,652
0.4%
Mining share of county employment
$47,327
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
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
2026 Q2 6,783 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 2,214 2 0 903.3
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
Show 58 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 6,181 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 6,508 1 0 153.7
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 3 2 568.3
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 2 0 395.6
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