# Plant 5

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1401635
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Crushed, Broken Limestone NEC
- **Location:** Woodson, KS
- **Operator:** Nelson Quarries Inc
- **Controller:** Kenneth L Nelson
- **Public source rows linked:** 452
- **Source coverage:** 12 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Kenneth L Nelson (M00265) → Nelson Quarries Inc (L00329) → Plant 5 (1401635)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Kenneth L Nelson → Nelson Quarries Inc:** 2004-12-09 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1401635; 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 — 3 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 69 violation rows across the full record; 16 carry an S&S flag and $12,149 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 9 samples:** Occupational health samples 9 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 1K employee hours and 5 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 93 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 36 contested-violation rows, 36 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 21 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 31 inspection events and 382 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 56.14100 — Safety defects; examination, correction and records.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14100
- **30 CFR 56.4104 — Combustible waste.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-C/section-56.4104
- **30 CFR 56.12004 — Electrical conductors.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12004
- **30 CFR 56.4130 — Electric substations and liquid storage facilities.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-C/section-56.4130
- **30 CFR 56.14132 — Horns and backup alarms.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14132
- **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 56.14108 — Overhead drive belts.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14108
- **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
- **30 CFR 56.11003 — Construction and maintenance of ladders.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-J/section-56.11003

## Source coverage

- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2026-02-06 through 2026-02-06; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 76 rows; 2005-10-26 through 2024-03-27; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 36 rows; 2008-04-07 through 2020-10-28; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Conferences:** 21 rows; 2005-12-12 through 2005-12-12; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 36 rows; 2005-10-26 through 2020-04-27; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 2004-12-09 through 2004-12-09; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 31 rows; 2005-10-26 through 2024-03-26; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 137 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`
- **Metal and Nonmetal Personal Health Samples:** 9 rows; 2005-10-26 through 2015-01-28; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 69 rows; 2005-10-26 through 2024-03-27; 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/plant-5-1401635`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/plant-5-1401635`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1401635/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1401635/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1401635/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`