# Bluffton Quarry

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1202436
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Crushed, Broken Stone NEC
- **Location:** Wells, IN
- **Operator:** Fort Wayne Rocks, Inc.
- **Controller:** Craig  Goode
- **Public source rows linked:** 161
- **Source coverage:** 10 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Craig  Goode (0096033) → Fort Wayne Rocks, Inc. (0113405) → Bluffton Quarry (1202436)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Craig  Goode → Fort Wayne Rocks, Inc.:** 2010-08-31 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1202436; 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 0 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 3 violation rows across the full record; 0 carry an S&S flag and $312 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 0 samples:** Occupational health samples No published samples. 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 33 employee hours and 3 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 — 1 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 4 inspection events and 47 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 46.5 — New miner training.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-46/section-46.5
- **30 CFR 50.30 — Preparation and submission of MSHA Form 7000-2—Quarterly Employment and Coal Production Report.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-D/section-50.30

## Source coverage

- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2015-05-14 through 2015-05-14; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 3 rows; 2011-05-16 through 2014-04-09; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 93 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 25 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 2010-08-31 through 2010-08-31; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 4 rows; 2010-09-28 through 2014-04-09; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 22 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 8 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Violations:** 3 rows; 2011-05-16 through 2014-04-09; 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/bluffton-quarry-1202436`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/bluffton-quarry-1202436`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1202436/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1202436/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1202436/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`