# Little Sandy

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1201590
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Daviess, IN
- **Operator:** Little Sandy Coal Company Inc
- **Controller:** Don  Foertsch
- **Public source rows linked:** 499
- **Source coverage:** 14 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Don  Foertsch (C06093) → Little Sandy Coal Company Inc (P07390) → Little Sandy (1201590)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Don  Foertsch et al → Little Sandy Coal Company Inc:** 1977-11-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1201590; 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 8 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 17 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 42 violation rows across the full record; 13 carry an S&S flag and $3,913 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 49 samples:** Occupational health samples 38 coal dust; 3 coal quartz; 8 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 6 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 91 employee hours and 2 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 — 2 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 37 inspection events and 555 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 77.1104 — Accumulations of combustible materials.** (4 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1104
- **30 CFR 77.409 — Shovels, draglines, and tractors.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.409
- **30 CFR 77.404 — Machinery and equipment; operation and maintenance.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.404
- **30 CFR 77.503 — Electric conductors; capacity and insulation.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.503
- **30 CFR 77.1004 — Ground control; inspection and maintenance; general.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-K/section-77.1004
- **30 CFR 77.400 — Mechanical equipment guards.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.400
- **30 CFR 77.1605 — Loading and haulage equipment; installations.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1605

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 8 rows; 2000-05-22 through 2004-11-09; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2007-11-02 through 2007-11-02; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 42 rows; 2000-08-30 through 2006-03-30; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 38 rows; 2000-02-07 through 2002-07-18; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 167 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 40 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 1977-11-01 through 1977-11-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 37 rows; 2000-01-20 through 2006-09-25; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 95 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`
- **Noise Samples:** 8 rows; 2000-02-07 through 2000-08-08; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 3 rows; 2001-12-03 through 2002-01-16; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 42 rows; 2000-08-30 through 2006-03-30; 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/little-sandy-1201590`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/little-sandy-1201590`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1201590/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1201590/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1201590/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`