# Fort Smith Plant

- **MSHA mine ID:** 0301607
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Facility / Sand, Industrial NEC
- **Location:** Sebastian, AR
- **Operator:** Covia ISP, Inc.
- **Controller:** Covia Holdings LLC
- **Public source rows linked:** 3,586
- **Source coverage:** 15 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Covia Holdings LLC (0159743) → Covia ISP, Inc. (0173853) → Fort Smith Plant (0301607)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Alcoa Inc & Norton Company → Saint-Gobain Proppants:** 1986-04-01 through 2001-03-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 0301607; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Saint-Gobain → Saint-Gobain Proppants:** 2001-04-01 through 2020-11-04; derived from co-tenure at mine 0301607; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **S C R-Sibelco Nv et al → Covia ISP, Inc.:** 2020-11-05 through 2020-12-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 0301607; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Covia Holdings LLC → Covia ISP, Inc.:** 2021-01-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 0301607; 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 — 8 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 75 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 364 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 150 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 585 violation rows across the full record; 144 carry an S&S flag and $318,338 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 194 samples:** Occupational health samples 194 personal. 11 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 111K employee hours and 134 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 296 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 123 contested-violation rows, 122 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 51 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 18 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 61 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 56.12018 — Identification of power switches.** (4 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12018
- **30 CFR 56.4201 — Inspection.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-C/section-56.4201
- **30 CFR 56.12030 — Correction of dangerous conditions.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12030
- **30 CFR 56.20003 — Housekeeping.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-S/section-56.20003
- **30 CFR 56.12008 — Insulation and fittings for power wires and cables.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12008
- **30 CFR 56.4011 — Abandoned electric circuits.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-C/section-56.4011
- **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

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 75 rows; 2001-05-01 through 2026-06-16; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2020-11-05 through 2020-11-05; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 576 rows; 2000-03-14 through 2026-07-29; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 122 rows; 2006-11-02 through 2025-03-25; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Conferences:** 51 rows; 2003-07-24 through 2026-05-29; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 123 rows; 2005-08-16 through 2024-08-22; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 1,434 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 290 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 4 rows; 1986-04-01 through 2020-11-05; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 61 rows; 2000-03-14 through 2026-07-27; 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:** 45 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:** 194 rows; 2001-07-24 through 2026-02-24; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 585 rows; 2000-03-14 through 2026-07-29; 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/fort-smith-plant-0301607`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/fort-smith-plant-0301607`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/0301607/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/0301607/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://0301607/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`