# Portable Crushing Plant

- **MSHA mine ID:** 0503922
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Construction Sand and Gravel
- **Location:** Bent, CO
- **Operator:** Southway Construction Co. Inc. of Alamosa
- **Controller:** Estate of Henry T. Southway Jr.
- **Public source rows linked:** 504
- **Source coverage:** 13 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Estate of Henry T. Southway Jr. (M02545) → Southway Construction Co. Inc. of Alamosa (L06057) → Portable Crushing Plant (0503922)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Estate of Henry T. Southway Jr. → Southway Construction Co. Inc. of Alamosa:** 1983-11-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 0503922; 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 4 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 28 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 106 violation rows across the full record; 37 carry an S&S flag and $18,359 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 6 samples:** Occupational health samples 6 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 2K employee hours and 5 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 50 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 20 contested-violation rows, 20 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 10 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 — 0 since 2021:** Inspections 41 inspection events and 615 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 56.12004 — 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 56.20003 — Housekeeping.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-S/section-56.20003
- **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 56.12008 — 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 56.12002 — Controls and switches.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12002
- **30 CFR 56.12032 — Inspection and cover plates.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12032
- **30 CFR 56.14131 — Seat belts for haulage trucks.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14131
- **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:** 4 rows; 2003-12-18 through 2016-01-27; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2023-01-25 through 2023-01-25; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 106 rows; 2000-02-08 through 2020-11-04; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 20 rows; 2009-01-30 through 2020-10-19; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Conferences:** 10 rows; 2003-10-20 through 2007-10-01; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 20 rows; 2007-05-16 through 2020-03-31; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 1983-11-01 through 1983-11-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 41 rows; 2000-02-08 through 2020-11-04; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 151 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 37 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:** 6 rows; 2006-04-05 through 2010-03-17; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 106 rows; 2000-02-08 through 2020-11-04; 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/portable-crushing-plant-0503922`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/portable-crushing-plant-0503922`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/0503922/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/0503922/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://0503922/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`