# Blount Springs Sand Plant

- **MSHA mine ID:** 0103047
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Construction Sand and Gravel
- **Location:** Blount, AL
- **Operator:** Wiregrass Construction Company, Inc.
- **Controller:** Construction Partners Inc
- **Public source rows linked:** 821
- **Source coverage:** 15 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Construction Partners Inc (0114721) → Wiregrass Construction Company, Inc. (0089784) → Blount Springs Sand Plant (0103047)**

Current identity source: `msha-mines`. This is a current snapshot, not a historical claim.

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Robert Fulton  Heatherly → Blount Springs Materials Co Inc:** 1995-04-01 through 2015-05-06; derived from co-tenure at mine 0103047; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Robert D  Heatherly → Blount Springs Materials Co Inc:** 2015-05-07 through 2021-08-01; derived from co-tenure at mine 0103047; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **John  Harper → Wiregrass Construction Company, Inc.:** 2021-08-02 through 2014-07-07; derived from co-tenure at mine 0103047; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Construction Partners Inc → Wiregrass Construction Company, Inc.:** 2021-08-02 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 0103047; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 4
- Typed edges: 10
- Interval anomalies: 1
- Valid-time bounds: inclusive; date granularity; null end means open-ended in the upstream history row; not independent proof of present control.
- Transaction-time observation: 2026-10-17T05:35:58.500035+00:00.

## Assessment signals

1. **SAFETY — 1 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 5 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 2 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 22 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 160 violation rows across the full record; 37 carry an S&S flag and $53,236 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 39 samples:** Occupational health samples 39 personal. 4 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.
4. **PRODUCTION — 0 tons:** Quarterly production and employment 5K employee hours and 8 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 44 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 21 contested-violation rows, 22 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 1 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 2 linked entities:** 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.
7. **INSPECTIONS — 41 since 2021:** Inspections 123 inspection events and 1K published inspection hours across the historical record.

## EIA annual operating context

No matched record in the 2024 EIA coal-public workbook. This may be inapplicable for a non-coal operation.

## Recent Title 30 crosswalk

Snapshot current through 2026-08-19.

- **30 CFR 46.7 — New task training.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-46/section-46.7
- **30 CFR 46.9 — Records of training.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-46/section-46.9
- **30 CFR 56.9101 — Operating speeds and control of equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-H/section-56.9101
- **30 CFR 56.14101 — Brakes.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14101
- **30 CFR 56.9300 — Berms or guardrails.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-H/section-56.9300
- **30 CFR 56.11002 — Handrails and toeboards.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-J/section-56.11002
- **30 CFR 56.18002 — Examination of working places.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-Q/section-56.18002
- **30 CFR 41.12 — Changes; notification by operator.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-G/part-41/subpart-B/section-41.12
- **30 CFR 56.16005 — Securing gas cylinders.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-O/section-56.16005
- **30 CFR 56.11001 — Safe access.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-J/section-56.11001

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 5 rows; 2001-09-11 through 2025-10-22; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2026-04-07 through 2026-04-07; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 158 rows; 2000-01-05 through 2025-10-23; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 22 rows; 2001-04-18 through 2026-07-28; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Conferences:** 1 rows; 2006-10-20 through 2006-10-20; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 21 rows; 2004-03-02 through 2025-10-21; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 170 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 38 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 4 rows; 1995-04-01 through 2021-08-02; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 123 rows; 2000-01-05 through 2026-04-02; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 24 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 54 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Metal and Nonmetal Personal Health Samples:** 39 rows; 2000-10-22 through 2025-10-22; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 160 rows; 2000-01-05 through 2025-10-23; source ID `msha-violations`

## Caveats

- This is public-record decision support, not legal advice or an official MSHA record.
- Missing data can indicate no event, publication delay, an unresolved identity, or inapplicability.
- Contractor production data is entity-level and is not attributed to this mine.

## Alternate representations

- HTML: `/mines/blount-springs-sand-plant-0103047`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/blount-springs-sand-plant-0103047`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/0103047/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/0103047/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://0103047/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`