# Van Buren Co

- **MSHA mine ID:** 0301743
- **Status:** Intermittent
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Crushed, Broken Sandstone
- **Location:** Van Buren, AR
- **Operator:** Van Buren County Road Department
- **Controller:** Van Buren County-Ar
- **Public source rows linked:** 793
- **Source coverage:** 14 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Van Buren County-Ar (M10148) → Van Buren County Road Department (L13285) → Van Buren Co (0301743)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Van Buren County-Ar → Van Buren County Road Department:** 1993-09-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 0301743; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 1
- Typed edges: 3
- 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 1 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 332 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 14 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 177 violation rows across the full record; 58 carry an S&S flag and $61,694 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 13 samples:** Occupational health samples 13 personal. 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 1K employee hours and 3 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 26 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 24 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 2 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 1 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 — 12 since 2021:** Inspections 60 inspection events and 684 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 56.12008 — 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 56.12028 — Testing grounding systems.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12028
- **30 CFR 56.9303 — Construction of ramps and dumping facilities.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-H/section-56.9303
- **30 CFR 56.14100 — Safety defects; examination, correction and records.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14100
- **30 CFR 56.4201 — Inspection.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-C/section-56.4201
- **30 CFR 56.12025 — Grounding circuit enclosures.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12025
- **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 56.9300 — 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 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 56.4402 — Safety can use.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-C/section-56.4402

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 1 rows; 2008-03-06 through 2008-03-06; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2025-10-03 through 2025-10-03; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 171 rows; 2000-09-19 through 2025-12-29; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 24 rows; 2002-02-12 through 2004-08-30; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Conferences:** 2 rows; 2008-04-24 through 2008-04-24; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 104 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 29 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 1993-09-01 through 1993-09-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 60 rows; 2000-09-19 through 2025-12-29; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 168 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 41 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:** 13 rows; 2003-10-29 through 2021-05-05; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 177 rows; 2000-09-19 through 2025-12-29; 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/van-buren-co-0301743`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/van-buren-co-0301743`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/0301743/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/0301743/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://0301743/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`