# Jeppesen Pits

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1302285
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Construction Sand and Gravel
- **Location:** Osceola, IA
- **Operator:** Jeppesen Gravel
- **Controller:** Jay A  Jeppesen
- **Public source rows linked:** 947
- **Source coverage:** 11 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Jay A  Jeppesen (0045787) → Jeppesen Gravel (0055156) → Jeppesen Pits (1302285)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Jay A  Jeppesen → Jeppesen Gravel:** 2004-05-19 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1302285; 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 225 violation rows across the full record; 41 carry an S&S flag and $177,585 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 5 employee hours and 2 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 356 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 149 contested-violation rows, 149 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 58 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 — 3 since 2021:** Inspections 45 inspection events and 968 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.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12028
- **30 CFR 46.8 — Annual refresher training.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-46/section-46.8
- **30 CFR 56.14103 — Operators stations.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14103
- **30 CFR 56.9300 — Berms or guardrails.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-H/section-56.9300
- **30 CFR 56.12004 — Electrical conductors.** (4 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12004
- **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 56.14112 — 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

## Source coverage

- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2023-06-22 through 2023-06-22; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 160 rows; 2004-05-19 through 2020-09-01; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 149 rows; 2008-04-30 through 2016-08-31; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Conferences:** 58 rows; 2007-10-16 through 2015-12-14; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 149 rows; 2005-09-20 through 2015-10-27; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 2004-05-19 through 2004-05-19; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 45 rows; 2004-05-19 through 2023-06-20; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 124 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 34 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Violations:** 225 rows; 2004-05-19 through 2020-09-01; 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/jeppesen-pits-1302285`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/jeppesen-pits-1302285`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1302285/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1302285/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1302285/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`