# Patriot Aggregate Plant

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1200670
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Construction Sand and Gravel
- **Location:** Switzerland, IN
- **Operator:** Hilltop Basic Resources, Inc.
- **Controller:** John F  Steele Jr
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,914
- **Source coverage:** 15 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**John F  Steele Jr (M00813) → Hilltop Basic Resources, Inc. (L00953) → Patriot Aggregate Plant (1200670)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **John F  Steele Jr → Hilltop Basic Resources, Inc.:** 1950-01-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1200670; 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: 2026-10-17T05:35:58.500035+00:00.

## Assessment signals

1. **SAFETY — 12 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 106 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 1,192 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 67 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 292 violation rows across the full record; 83 carry an S&S flag and $97,924 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 59 samples:** Occupational health samples 59 personal. 1 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 26K employee hours and 54 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 100 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 44 contested-violation rows, 44 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 12 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 — 16 since 2021:** Inspections 85 inspection events and 2K 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 56.14100 — Safety defects; examination, correction and records.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14100
- **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 56.11001 — Safe access.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-J/section-56.11001
- **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 56.14107 — 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 56.9100 — Traffic control.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-H/section-56.9100
- **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 56.17001 — Illumination of surface working areas.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-P/section-56.17001

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 106 rows; 2000-02-21 through 2025-10-21; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 1994-03-10 through 1994-03-10; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 292 rows; 2000-05-02 through 2026-06-24; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 44 rows; 2012-12-07 through 2026-07-17; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Conferences:** 12 rows; 2007-06-26 through 2023-08-28; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 44 rows; 2009-07-21 through 2025-09-10; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 743 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 154 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 1950-01-01 through 1950-01-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 85 rows; 2000-05-02 through 2026-06-15; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 24 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 56 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:** 59 rows; 2004-03-24 through 2026-06-24; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 292 rows; 2000-05-02 through 2026-06-24; 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/patriot-aggregate-plant-1200670`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/patriot-aggregate-plant-1200670`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1200670/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1200670/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1200670/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`