# PIT #28

- **MSHA mine ID:** 0503538
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Construction Sand and Gravel
- **Location:** Weld, CO
- **Operator:** Brannan Sand & Gravel Company LLC
- **Controller:** James C  Marvel Jr
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,168
- **Source coverage:** 14 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**James C  Marvel Jr (M13648) → Brannan Sand & Gravel Company LLC (L17886) → PIT #28 (0503538)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **W W  Sellers → Brannan Sand & Gravel Company:** 1980-02-01 through 1996-04-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 0503538; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **James C  Marvel Jr → Brannan Sand & Gravel Company LLC:** 1996-05-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 0503538; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 2
- Typed edges: 6
- 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 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 14 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 162 violation rows across the full record; 40 carry an S&S flag and $36,704 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 24 samples:** Occupational health samples 24 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 0 employee hours and 0 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 15 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 7 contested-violation rows, 8 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 0 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 4 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 — 6 since 2021:** Inspections 54 inspection events and 869 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 56.4101 — Warning signs.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-C/section-56.4101
- **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 56.12032 — 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 56.12068 — Locking transformer enclosures.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12068
- **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 56.4130 — Electric substations and liquid storage facilities.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-C/section-56.4130
- **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 56.14107 — Moving machine parts.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14107
- **30 CFR 56.11012 — Protection for openings around travelways.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-J/section-56.11012
- **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 56.14112 — 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:** 2 rows; 2008-02-04 through 2008-10-31; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2026-07-22 through 2026-07-22; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 160 rows; 2000-11-01 through 2023-10-11; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 8 rows; 2000-08-28 through 2010-04-21; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Contested Violations:** 7 rows; 2009-04-30 through 2009-04-30; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 383 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 112 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 1980-02-01 through 1996-05-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 54 rows; 2000-01-04 through 2025-09-16; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 202 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 50 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:** 24 rows; 2001-12-05 through 2019-11-21; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 162 rows; 2000-11-01 through 2023-10-11; 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/pit-28-0503538`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/pit-28-0503538`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/0503538/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/0503538/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://0503538/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`