# Portable Crusher #1

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1401465
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Crushed, Broken Limestone NEC
- **Location:** Pottawatomie, KS
- **Operator:** Mid-States Materials, LLC
- **Controller:** Eric H  Bettis; Matt  McPherson
- **Public source rows linked:** 610
- **Source coverage:** 16 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Eric H  Bettis; Matt  McPherson (0042755) → Mid-States Materials, LLC (0051967) → Portable Crusher #1 (1401465)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Wade Agricultural Products Inc → Wade Agricultural Products Inc:** 1985-07-01 through 2018-01-07; derived from co-tenure at mine 1401465; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Eric H  Bettis et al → Mid-States Materials, LLC:** 2018-01-08 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1401465; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Matt  McPherson et al → Mid-States Materials, LLC:** 2018-01-08 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1401465; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 3
- Typed edges: 7
- 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 7 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 451 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 4 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 98 violation rows across the full record; 32 carry an S&S flag and $25,302 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 10 samples:** Occupational health samples 9 personal; 1 area. 1 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 6K employee hours and 9 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 34 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 16 contested-violation rows, 16 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 2 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 — 8 since 2021:** Inspections 45 inspection events and 428 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 56.14107 — Moving machine parts.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14107
- **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 56.15005 — Safety belts and lines.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-N/section-56.15005
- **30 CFR 47.41 — Requirement for container labels.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-47/subpart-E/section-47.41
- **30 CFR 56.14132 — Horns and backup alarms.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14132
- **30 CFR 56.14100 — Safety defects; examination, correction and records.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14100
- **30 CFR 56.9300 — Berms or guardrails.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-H/section-56.9300
- **30 CFR 56.12008 — Insulation and fittings for power wires and cables.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12008
- **30 CFR 56.15002 — Hard hats.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-N/section-56.15002

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 7 rows; 2001-07-06 through 2013-07-30; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2026-04-02 through 2026-04-02; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Metal and Nonmetal Area Samples:** 1 rows; 2016-03-30 through 2016-03-30; source ID `msha-area-samples`
- **Assessed Violations:** 97 rows; 2000-06-21 through 2025-03-05; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 16 rows; 2008-10-08 through 2012-12-04; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Conferences:** 2 rows; 2015-11-02 through 2015-11-02; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 16 rows; 2007-07-31 through 2010-10-05; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 78 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 18 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 1985-07-01 through 2018-01-08; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 45 rows; 2000-06-20 through 2026-06-08; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 174 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 44 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:** 9 rows; 2006-01-11 through 2021-04-28; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 98 rows; 2000-06-21 through 2025-03-05; 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/portable-crusher-1-1401465`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/portable-crusher-1-1401465`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1401465/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1401465/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1401465/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`