# U.S. Vanadium - Benton, LLC

- **MSHA mine ID:** 0300261
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Aluminum Ore-Bauxite
- **Location:** Saline, AR
- **Operator:** US Vanadium - Benton, LLC
- **Controller:** US Vanadium Holding Company, LLC
- **Public source rows linked:** 3,185
- **Source coverage:** 15 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**US Vanadium Holding Company, LLC (0152301) → US Vanadium - Benton, LLC (0179054) → U.S. Vanadium - Benton, LLC (0300261)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **American Cyanamid Company → American Cyanamid Company:** 1950-01-01 through 1989-11-22; derived from co-tenure at mine 0300261; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Robert J  Leonard Jr → Can-Am Absorbents Company Inc:** 1989-11-23 through 1996-03-28; derived from co-tenure at mine 0300261; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alcoa Inc & Norton Company → Saint-Gobain Proppants:** 1996-03-29 through 2001-03-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 0300261; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Saint-Gobain → Saint-Gobain Proppants:** 2001-04-01 through 2021-07-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 0300261; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **US Vanadium Holding Company, LLC → US Vanadium - Benton, LLC:** 2021-08-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 0300261; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 5
- Typed edges: 14
- Interval anomalies: 0
- 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: 2026-10-13T11:19:05.459773+00:00.

## Assessment signals

1. **SAFETY — 10 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 33 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 308 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 82 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 287 violation rows across the full record; 61 carry an S&S flag and $117,860 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 109 samples:** Occupational health samples 109 personal. 3 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 17K employee hours and 30 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 49 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 21 contested-violation rows, 21 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 7 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 20 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 — 19 since 2021:** Inspections 71 inspection events and 2K 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 56.14112 — Construction and maintenance of guards.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14112
- **30 CFR 56.14107 — Moving machine parts.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14107
- **30 CFR 56.20003 — Housekeeping.** (4 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-S/section-56.20003
- **30 CFR 56.4200 — General requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-C/section-56.4200
- **30 CFR 56.14109 — Unguarded conveyors with adjacent travelways.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14109
- **30 CFR 47.41 — Requirement for container labels.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-47/subpart-E/section-47.41
- **30 CFR 56.12032 — Inspection and cover plates.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12032

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 33 rows; 2003-09-21 through 2025-06-09; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2021-10-15 through 2021-10-15; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 284 rows; 2000-09-17 through 2026-06-30; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 21 rows; 2013-10-31 through 2024-04-24; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Conferences:** 7 rows; 2000-09-28 through 2003-06-23; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 21 rows; 2013-04-29 through 2023-09-20; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 1,697 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 324 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 5 rows; 1950-01-01 through 2021-08-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 71 rows; 2000-09-17 through 2026-06-30; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 268 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 56 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:** 109 rows; 2009-09-10 through 2025-10-07; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 287 rows; 2000-09-17 through 2026-06-30; 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/u-s-vanadium-benton-llc-0300261`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/u-s-vanadium-benton-llc-0300261`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/0300261/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/0300261/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://0300261/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`