# Gordon Plant

- **MSHA mine ID:** 0900231
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Facility / Kaolin and Ball Clay
- **Location:** Wilkinson, GA
- **Operator:** KaMin LLC.
- **Controller:** IMin Partners
- **Public source rows linked:** 2,293
- **Source coverage:** 15 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**IMin Partners (0075071) → KaMin LLC. (0089404) → Gordon Plant (0900231)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Freeport Minerals Company → Freeport Kaolin Company:** 1950-01-01 through 1984-01-16; derived from co-tenure at mine 0900231; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Phosphate Resource Partners Lp → Freeport Kaolin Company:** 1984-01-17 through 1985-02-12; derived from co-tenure at mine 0900231; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Engelhard Corp → BASF Catalysts LLC:** 1985-02-13 through 2006-07-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 0900231; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **BASF SE → BASF Catalysts LLC:** 2006-08-01 through 2010-03-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 0900231; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **BASF SE → BASF Corporation:** 2010-04-01 through 2022-09-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 0900231; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **IMin Partners → KaMin LLC.:** 2022-10-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 0900231; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 6
- Typed edges: 17
- 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 — 9 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 41 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 810 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 47 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 263 violation rows across the full record; 44 carry an S&S flag and $61,510 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 41 samples:** Occupational health samples 41 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 53K employee hours and 98 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 10 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 4 contested-violation rows, 4 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 2 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 8 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 — 17 since 2021:** Inspections 83 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 56.14201 — Conveyor start-up warnings.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14201
- **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 56.14107 — Moving machine parts.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14107
- **30 CFR 56.16005 — Securing gas cylinders.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-O/section-56.16005
- **30 CFR 56.12019 — Access to stationary electrical equipment or switchgear.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12019
- **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.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12008
- **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

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 41 rows; 2000-02-14 through 2025-08-19; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 1976-07-04 through 1976-07-04; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 262 rows; 2000-06-14 through 2026-06-07; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 4 rows; 2012-11-08 through 2018-04-02; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Conferences:** 2 rows; 2004-02-04 through 2013-07-22; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 4 rows; 2010-06-22 through 2017-09-06; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 1,060 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 259 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 6 rows; 1950-01-01 through 2022-10-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 83 rows; 2000-06-14 through 2026-06-05; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 212 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 54 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:** 41 rows; 2001-11-01 through 2023-01-30; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 263 rows; 2000-06-14 through 2026-06-07; 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-plant-0900231`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/gordon-plant-0900231`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/0900231/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/0900231/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://0900231/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`