# Yard 56 - Rantoul

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1101696
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Construction Sand and Gravel
- **Location:** Champaign, IL
- **Operator:** Prairie Material Sales, Inc. - Aggregate Division
- **Controller:** Prairie Group
- **Public source rows linked:** 124
- **Source coverage:** 10 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Prairie Group (M05729) → Prairie Material Sales, Inc. - Aggregate Division (L07545) → Yard 56 - Rantoul (1101696)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Charles H  Odle → Urban Sand & Gravel Company Inc:** 1950-01-01 through 2000-02-10; derived from co-tenure at mine 1101696; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Prairie Group → Prairie Material Sales, Inc. - Aggregate Division:** 2000-02-11 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1101696; 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 1 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 15 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 10 violation rows across the full record; 1 carry an S&S flag and $606 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 7 samples:** Occupational health samples 7 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 — 0 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 0 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 0 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 14 inspection events and 177 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 56.12028 — 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 56.18002 — 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
- **30 CFR 56.11001 — Safe access.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-J/section-56.11001
- **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 56.14131 — 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 56.11026 — Protection for inclined fixed ladders.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-J/section-56.11026
- **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 56.9301 — Dump site restraints.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-H/section-56.9301
- **30 CFR 50.20 — Preparation and submission of MSHA Report Form 7000-1—Mine Accident, Injury, and Illness Report.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-C/section-50.20
- **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

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 1 rows; 2001-04-05 through 2001-04-05; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2007-04-19 through 2007-04-19; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 10 rows; 2000-08-01 through 2006-11-01; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 1950-01-01 through 2000-02-11; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 14 rows; 2000-08-01 through 2006-10-31; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 62 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 16 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:** 7 rows; 2000-08-02 through 2006-11-01; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 10 rows; 2000-08-01 through 2006-11-01; 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/yard-56-rantoul-1101696`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/yard-56-rantoul-1101696`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1101696/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1101696/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1101696/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`