# Gordon Sand Co

- **MSHA mine ID:** 0401787
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Construction Sand and Gravel
- **Location:** Santa Barbara, CA
- **Operator:** Gordon Sand Co
- **Controller:** Salud Maria  Gordon
- **Public source rows linked:** 613
- **Source coverage:** 13 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Salud Maria  Gordon (0140401) → Gordon Sand Co (L33755) → Gordon Sand Co (0401787)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **George E  Gordon III → Gordon Sand Co:** 1950-01-01 through 2017-08-11; derived from co-tenure at mine 0401787; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Salud Maria  Gordon → Gordon Sand Co:** 2017-08-12 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 0401787; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 2
- Typed edges: 5
- 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 2 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 152 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 23 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 124 violation rows across the full record; 40 carry an S&S flag and $40,232 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 15 samples:** Occupational health samples 15 personal. 2 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 — 24 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 10 contested-violation rows, 10 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 4 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 — 15 since 2021:** Inspections 76 inspection events and 1K 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 56.14105 — Procedures during repairs or maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14105
- **30 CFR 56.12004 — Electrical conductors.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12004
- **30 CFR 56.11003 — Construction and maintenance of ladders.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-J/section-56.11003
- **30 CFR 56.14132 — Horns and backup alarms.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14132
- **30 CFR 50.30 — Preparation and submission of MSHA Form 7000-2—Quarterly Employment and Coal Production Report.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-D/section-50.30
- **30 CFR 46.3 — Training plans.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-46/section-46.3
- **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 56.14130 — Roll-over protective structures (ROPS) and seat belts.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14130
- **30 CFR 56.18002 — Examination of working places.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-Q/section-56.18002

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 2 rows; 2000-07-17 through 2005-11-10; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2025-04-01 through 2025-04-01; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 123 rows; 2000-09-21 through 2026-08-12; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 10 rows; 2008-03-07 through 2016-02-17; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Conferences:** 4 rows; 2004-06-01 through 2004-06-01; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 10 rows; 2006-05-03 through 2014-12-17; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 1950-01-01 through 1950-01-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 76 rows; 2000-09-21 through 2026-09-23; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 198 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 47 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:** 15 rows; 2004-02-11 through 2026-09-23; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 124 rows; 2000-09-21 through 2026-08-12; 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/gordon-sand-co-0401787`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/gordon-sand-co-0401787`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/0401787/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/0401787/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://0401787/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`