# US Vanadium, LLC

- **MSHA mine ID:** 0300479
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Vanadium Ore
- **Location:** Garland, AR
- **Operator:** US Vanadium, LLC
- **Controller:** US Vanadium Holding Company, LLC
- **Public source rows linked:** 2,281
- **Source coverage:** 15 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**US Vanadium Holding Company, LLC (0152301) → US Vanadium, LLC (L09132) → US Vanadium, LLC (0300479)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Union Carbide Corp → Umetco Minerals Corp:** 1950-01-01 through 1986-06-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 0300479; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Strategic Minerals Corp (Stratcor) → US Vanadium, LLC:** 1986-07-01 through 2010-11-18; derived from co-tenure at mine 0300479; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Evraz PLC → US Vanadium, LLC:** 2010-11-19 through 2019-10-10; derived from co-tenure at mine 0300479; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **US Vanadium Holding Company, LLC → US Vanadium, LLC:** 2019-10-11 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 0300479; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 4
- Typed edges: 10
- 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: 2026-10-17T05:35:58.500035+00:00.

## Assessment signals

1. **SAFETY — 10 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 67 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 892 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 105 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 567 violation rows across the full record; 116 carry an S&S flag and $168,842 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 227 samples:** Occupational health samples 227 personal. 1 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 42K employee hours and 77 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 30 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 14 contested-violation rows, 14 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 2 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 8 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 — 21 since 2021:** Inspections 117 inspection events and 3K 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 56.20003 — Housekeeping.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-S/section-56.20003
- **30 CFR 56.14112 — Construction and maintenance of guards.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14112
- **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
- **30 CFR 56.12008 — Insulation and fittings for power wires and cables.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12008
- **30 CFR 56.14107 — Moving machine parts.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14107
- **30 CFR 47.41 — Requirement for container labels.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-47/subpart-E/section-47.41
- **30 CFR 56.12004 — Electrical conductors.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12004
- **30 CFR 56.14100 — Safety defects; examination, correction and records.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14100

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 67 rows; 2000-10-04 through 2026-09-17; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 1971-11-01 through 1971-11-01; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 561 rows; 2000-03-10 through 2026-06-30; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 14 rows; 2009-03-31 through 2011-06-29; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Conferences:** 2 rows; 2000-08-29 through 2000-08-29; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 14 rows; 2007-02-13 through 2008-01-16; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 520 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 108 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 4 rows; 1950-01-01 through 1986-07-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 117 rows; 2000-03-09 through 2026-06-29; 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:** 227 rows; 2004-07-28 through 2025-09-16; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 567 rows; 2000-03-10 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/us-vanadium-llc-0300479`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/us-vanadium-llc-0300479`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/0300479/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/0300479/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://0300479/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`