# Berger Plant

- **MSHA mine ID:** 0300470
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Facility / Aluminum Ore-Bauxite
- **Location:** Pulaski, AR
- **Operator:** Porocel Corp
- **Controller:** Ronald  Zapletal; Ed  Butera
- **Public source rows linked:** 273
- **Source coverage:** 10 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Ronald  Zapletal; Ed  Butera (M11349) → Porocel Corp (L14916) → Berger Plant (0300470)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Engelhard Corp → Porocel Corp:** 1950-01-01 through 1996-10-23; derived from co-tenure at mine 0300470; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Ronald  Zapletal et al → Porocel Corp:** 1996-10-24 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 0300470; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Ed  Butera et al → Porocel Corp:** 1996-10-24 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 0300470; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 3
- Typed edges: 7
- 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 — 0 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 11 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 60 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 100 violation rows across the full record; 55 carry an S&S flag and $22,658 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 0 samples:** Occupational health samples No published samples. 0 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 31K employee hours and 65 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 20 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 0 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 20 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 0 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 — 0 since 2021:** Inspections 4 inspection events and 29 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 56.9300 — Berms or guardrails.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-H/section-56.9300
- **30 CFR 50.20 — Preparation and submission of MSHA Report Form 7000-1—Mine Accident, Injury, and Illness Report.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-C/section-50.20
- **30 CFR 56.11002 — Handrails and toeboards.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-J/section-56.11002
- **30 CFR 56.14107 — Moving machine parts.** (6 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14107

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 11 rows; 2000-07-11 through 2003-02-16; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2003-03-27 through 2003-03-27; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 99 rows; 2000-09-07 through 2000-09-14; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Conferences:** 20 rows; 2000-09-27 through 2000-09-27; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 1950-01-01 through 1996-10-24; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 4 rows; 2000-09-07 through 2002-09-30; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 26 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 8 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Violations:** 100 rows; 2000-09-07 through 2000-09-15; 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/berger-plant-0300470`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/berger-plant-0300470`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/0300470/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/0300470/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://0300470/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`