# Geary County Sand Plant

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1401040
- **Status:** Intermittent
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Construction Sand and Gravel
- **Location:** Geary, KS
- **Operator:** Midwest Concrete Materials, Inc.
- **Controller:** Christopher J  Eichman
- **Public source rows linked:** 348
- **Source coverage:** 12 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Christopher J  Eichman (0194821) → Midwest Concrete Materials, Inc. (L01472) → Geary County Sand Plant (1401040)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Bob  More → More Sand Company Inc:** 1950-01-01 through 1989-04-18; derived from co-tenure at mine 1401040; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Roy G  More → More Sand Company Inc:** 1989-04-19 through 1991-04-15; derived from co-tenure at mine 1401040; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **John B  Musser II et al → Konza Construction Company Inc:** 1991-04-16 through 2013-01-09; derived from co-tenure at mine 1401040; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Doug W.  Hutchinson → Konza Construction Company Inc:** 2013-01-10 through 2013-03-14; derived from co-tenure at mine 1401040; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **John B  Musser II et al → Konza Construction Company Inc:** 2013-03-15 through 2013-12-19; derived from co-tenure at mine 1401040; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Robert H  Eichman → Midwest Concrete Materials, Inc.:** 2013-12-20 through 2025-01-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 1401040; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Christopher J  Eichman → Midwest Concrete Materials, Inc.:** 2025-02-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1401040; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 7
- Typed edges: 18
- 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 — 0 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 5 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 3 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 9 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 87 violation rows across the full record; 14 carry an S&S flag and $14,496 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 12 samples:** Occupational health samples 12 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 3K employee hours and 5 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 28 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 14 contested-violation rows, 14 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 0 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 — 7 since 2021:** Inspections 49 inspection events and 493 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 56.11001 — Safe access.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-J/section-56.11001
- **30 CFR 56.4201 — Inspection.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-C/section-56.4201
- **30 CFR 56.14205 — Machinery, equipment, and tools.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14205
- **30 CFR 56.15001 — First-aid materials.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-N/section-56.15001
- **30 CFR 56.14107 — Moving machine parts.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14107
- **30 CFR 56.4102 — Spillage and leakage.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-C/section-56.4102
- **30 CFR 56.12025 — Grounding circuit enclosures.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12025
- **30 CFR 56.20003 — Housekeeping.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-S/section-56.20003

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 5 rows; 2001-08-27 through 2020-02-05; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2014-08-22 through 2014-08-22; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 87 rows; 2000-04-04 through 2026-07-23; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 14 rows; 2009-07-16 through 2011-06-08; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Contested Violations:** 14 rows; 2008-05-09 through 2011-01-13; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 7 rows; 1950-01-01 through 2013-12-20; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 49 rows; 2000-04-04 through 2026-07-23; 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:** 47 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:** 12 rows; 2005-06-14 through 2025-04-23; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 87 rows; 2000-04-04 through 2026-07-23; 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/geary-county-sand-plant-1401040`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/geary-county-sand-plant-1401040`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1401040/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1401040/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1401040/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`