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Sheppard: 63 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Ted S Smith
McIntyre, Baldwin County, GA  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 0901077

Sheppard has $8K in proposed MSHA penalties and $20 outstanding across 2 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
6
Years on record
1999–2025
Latest incident
Oct 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
63
citations
10
significant & substantial
$7,598
proposed penalties
$7,570
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $28 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See Arcilla Mining & Land, LLC's full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
69
inspections on record
884
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: 884 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Sheppard has $8K in proposed MSHA penalties and $20 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.
$8K
proposed penalties
$8K
current assessed
$8K
paid to date
$20
outstanding
63 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
Of $332 in penalties contested before the Commission, $100 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-09-04.
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.
15.9%
significant & substantial
17.5%
high negligence or reckless
15.9%
reasonably likely or greater
47.6%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 6.3% low, 76.2% moderate, 17.5% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
When citations were contested
ⓘ Contesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
2 citations taken to the federal commission · 3% of citations on record
  • Settled 1 · 50%
  • Vacated or withdrawn 1 · 50%
0%
S&S designation survived the contest
ⓘ Counts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.
of 1 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
70%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$332 proposed, $100 after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2011-02-08.
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 2011-325M Withdrawal Lesnick 2011 $224 → $0
SE 2010-1243M Settlement Lesnick 2011 $108 → $100
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: 2025-09-04
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
8
samples
2
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg5
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz2
  • Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz1
Show the individual readings (8)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2025-09-04 Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz 0.16 10 0.02 Backhoe Operator
2025-09-04 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bulldozer Operator
2025-09-04 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.3 Truck Driver
2025-09-04 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.48 1.7 0.28 Truck Driver
2017-08-29 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
2017-08-29 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bulldozer Operator
2009-06-18 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bulldozer Operator
2009-06-18 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Truck Driver
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.

Sheppard 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
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 Georgia, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.20 cases per 100 workers that year.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2025 0.00 0.00 0.000
2024 0.00 0.00 0.000
2023 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2022 * 2.73 2.73 0.000
2021 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2020 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2019 0.00 0.00 0.000
2018 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. Arcilla Mining & Land Company 1993 to 2011
  2. Arcilla Mining & Land, LLC 2011 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 65
2025 84
2024 79
2023 87
2022 62
2021 82
2020 70
2019 87
2018 93
2017 111
2016 90
2015 63
2014 89
2013 56
2012 57
2011 32
2010 24
2009 20
2008 19
2007 14
2006 13
2005 18
2004 6
2003 1
2002 1
2001 2
2000 4
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Sheppard sits in Baldwin County, Georgia, where the Census mining category is 1.2% 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.
Baldwin County, Georgia · Population 43,669
1.2%
Mining share of county employment
$55,413
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 35,271 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 23,213 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 22,539 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 35,137 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 37,013 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 30,384 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 30,539 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 27,964 1 0 35.8
Show 98 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q2 30,834 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 29,868 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 24,631 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 16,143 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 30,304 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 24,394 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 19,450 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 18,525 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 14,938 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 20,406 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 25,597 1 0 39.1
2021 Q3 23,152 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 22,413 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 13,511 3 3 222.0
2020 Q4 19,263 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 19,528 2 0 102.4
2020 Q2 18,797 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 20,227 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 43,979 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 42,385 1 0 23.6
2019 Q2 52,087 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 37,243 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 30,980 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 51,487 1 0 19.4
2018 Q2 48,502 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 45,625 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 55,466 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 57,660 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 54,338 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 57,961 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 51,162 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 49,519 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 52,400 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 36,884 2 0 54.2
2015 Q4 28,630 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 33,689 1 0 29.7
2015 Q2 16,581 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 52,998 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 57,042 1 1 17.5
2014 Q3 50,201 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 43,216 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 37,156 3 0 80.7
2013 Q4 30,318 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 29,701 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 24,552 2 0 81.5
2013 Q1 32,658 1 0 30.6
2012 Q4 28,628 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 31,423 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 39,227 1 0 25.5
2012 Q1 36,615 1 0 27.3
2011 Q4 21,885 1 0 45.7
2011 Q3 23,493 1 0 42.6
2011 Q2 20,286 2 0 98.6
2011 Q1 15,850 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 15,526 1 0 64.4
2010 Q3 15,989 2 0 125.1
2010 Q2 13,411 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 12,075 2 0 165.6
2009 Q4 11,015 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 14,720 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 8,845 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 11,449 1 0 87.3
2008 Q4 13,375 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 12,761 1 1 78.4
2008 Q2 11,503 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 7,703 3 0 389.5
2007 Q4 8,670 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 6,198 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 7,152 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 6,089 8 2 1313.8
2006 Q4 6,096 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 3,562 4 0 1123.0
2006 Q2 5,992 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 9,543 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 11,505 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 10,218 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 8,476 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 6,421 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 5,331 2 0 375.2
2004 Q3 5,368 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 0 8 1
2004 Q1 0 0 0
2003 Q4 0 0 0
2003 Q3 0 0 0
2003 Q2 96 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 216 3 2 13888.9
2002 Q4 0 0 0
2002 Q3 219 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 324 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 484 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 811 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 10 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 1,288 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 1,186 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 1,028 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 1,402 1 0 713.3
2000 Q2 1,387 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 4,150 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

6 on file

2025 · 1 incident

2022 · 1 incident

August 13, 2022 GA · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer MACHINERY
Arcilla Mining & Land, LLC · Struck against a moving object

Miner was operating bulldozer went over a rise on the terrain. As EE came down on the other side, the dozer shift up causing EE to strike the roof due to not wearing seatbelt. Sprained neck taking to emergency room for first aid.

2013 · 1 incident

February 16, 2013 GA · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Arcilla Mining & Land, LLC · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Poor weather conditions caused the ground material to become slick which resulted in the employee falling.

2006 · 1 incident

June 17, 2006 GA · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Arcilla Mining & Land Company · Struck against a moving object

EE injured his back while operating 30 ton Volvo off road truck. Truck was loaded while traveling along bumpy road. EE failed to adjust seat spring tension on seat at beginning of shift to except his weight 240 lbs when truck crossed rough road the seat bottomed out causing EE to hit very hard on floor causing injury.

2000 · 1 incident

May 5, 2000 GA · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer MACHINERY
Arcilla Mining & Land Company · Struck against a moving object

CURRENT WORK CONDITIONS HAVE AGGRAVATED PRIOR BACK INJURY. OPERATIN BACKHOE AT SHEPPARDS WHERE THERE IS A HARD LAYER OF SHELL ROCK OVER DIRT HE IS DIGGING.

1999 · 1 incident

November 18, 1999 GA · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man MACHINERY
Arcilla Mining & Land Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

DRILLER AND DRILL HELPER WERE DRILLING FOR CLAY. DRILL HELPER COUPLED 1 1/4" HIGH PRESSURE WATERHOSE TO CORE BARRELL TO DISCHARGE CLAY SAMPLE. WHEN COUPLED, PRESSURE WAS APPLIED TO THE HOSE CA USING HOSE TO COME LOOSE AND STRIKING DRILL HELPER ON RIGHT SIDE OF FACE CAUSING LACERATION REQUIRING TWENTY TWO STITCHES.