# Northern White Sand

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1103253
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Sand, Industrial NEC
- **Location:** La Salle, IL
- **Operator:** Northern White Sand LLC
- **Controller:** Smart Sand Inc
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,771
- **Source coverage:** 15 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Smart Sand Inc (0103037) → Northern White Sand LLC (0125453) → Northern White Sand (1103253)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Eagle Materials Inc → Northern White Sand LLC:** 2012-10-02 through 2020-10-22; derived from co-tenure at mine 1103253; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Smart Sand Inc → Northern White Sand LLC:** 2020-10-23 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1103253; 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 — 1 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 9 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 66 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 14 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 74 violation rows across the full record; 16 carry an S&S flag and $14,794 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 28 samples:** Occupational health samples 28 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 29K employee hours and 44 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 11 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 1 contested-violation rows, 1 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 9 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 13 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 — 20 since 2021:** Inspections 39 inspection events and 691 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.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12004
- **30 CFR 56.6306 — Loading, blasting, and security.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-E/section-56.6306
- **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 56.14132 — 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 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 47.41 — Requirement for container labels.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-47/subpart-E/section-47.41
- **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
- **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 56.14101 — Brakes.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14101
- **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

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 9 rows; 2018-08-17 through 2021-09-14; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2021-03-26 through 2021-03-26; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 74 rows; 2012-12-17 through 2026-06-15; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 1 rows; 2024-08-14 through 2024-08-14; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Conferences:** 9 rows; 2013-01-17 through 2026-03-17; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 1 rows; 2023-12-14 through 2023-12-14; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 1,165 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 242 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 2012-10-02 through 2012-10-02; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 39 rows; 2012-12-03 through 2026-06-15; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 100 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 25 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:** 28 rows; 2014-09-24 through 2026-06-16; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 74 rows; 2012-12-17 through 2026-06-15; 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/northern-white-sand-1103253`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/northern-white-sand-1103253`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1103253/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1103253/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1103253/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`