# WICHITA SAND PLANT

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1401377
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Construction Sand and Gravel
- **Location:** Sedgwick, KS
- **Operator:** Apac-Kansas Inc  Shears Division
- **Controller:** CRH PLC
- **Public source rows linked:** 248
- **Source coverage:** 11 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-18T09:31:49.615Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**CRH PLC (M06183) → Apac-Kansas Inc  Shears Division (L09930) → WICHITA SAND PLANT (1401377)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Koppers Company Inc → Mid-Kansas Construction Company Inc:** 1980-07-01 through 1988-11-13; derived from co-tenure at mine 1401377; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Redland Plc → Western Mobile Kansas Inc:** 1988-11-14 through 1994-03-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 1401377; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Superfos America Inc → Asphalt Construction Company:** 1994-04-01 through 2000-02-21; derived from co-tenure at mine 1401377; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Ashland Inc → Apac-Kansas Inc  Shears Division:** 2000-02-22 through 2006-08-27; derived from co-tenure at mine 1401377; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **CRH PLC → Apac-Kansas Inc  Shears Division:** 2006-08-28 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1401377; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 5
- Typed edges: 14
- 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: 2026-10-18T09:31:49.615908+00:00.

## Assessment signals

1. **SAFETY — 0 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 1 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 20 violation rows across the full record; 3 carry an S&S flag and $1,977 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 4 samples:** Occupational health samples 4 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 0 employee hours and 0 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 2 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 0 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 2 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 — 0 since 2021:** Inspections 27 inspection events and 256 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 56.12004 — Electrical conductors.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12004
- **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 56.14112 — 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
- **30 CFR 56.4101 — Warning signs.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-C/section-56.4101
- **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
- **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 56.12023 — Guarding electrical connections and resistor grids.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12023
- **30 CFR 56.12018 — Identification of power switches.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12018
- **30 CFR 56.12002 — Controls and switches.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12002
- **30 CFR 47.41 — Requirement for container labels.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-47/subpart-E/section-47.41

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 1 rows; 2000-09-05 through 2000-09-05; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2020-03-04 through 2020-03-04; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 20 rows; 2000-05-09 through 2016-10-12; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Conferences:** 2 rows; 2005-10-28 through 2005-10-28; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 5 rows; 1980-07-01 through 2000-02-22; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 27 rows; 2000-05-09 through 2017-09-06; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 148 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 19 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:** 4 rows; 2011-06-29 through 2017-09-07; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 20 rows; 2000-05-09 through 2016-10-12; 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/wichita-sand-plant-1401377`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/wichita-sand-plant-1401377`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1401377/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1401377/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1401377/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`