# Worcester Sand & Stone

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1900956
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Crushed, Broken Traprock
- **Location:** Worcester, MA
- **Operator:** Worcester Sand & Stone
- **Controller:** John M Matteson; Steven E Goodman
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,626
- **Source coverage:** 15 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**John M Matteson; Steven E Goodman (0153701) → Worcester Sand & Stone (0169053) → Worcester Sand & Stone (1900956)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Anthony J Trotto et al → Worcester Sand & Gravel Company Inc:** 1950-01-01 through 2020-01-26; derived from co-tenure at mine 1900956; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Steven E Goodman et al → Worcester Sand & Stone:** 2020-01-27 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1900956; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **John M Matteson et al → Worcester Sand & Stone:** 2020-01-27 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1900956; 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 2 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 33 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 63 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 395 violation rows across the full record; 123 carry an S&S flag and $343,143 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 44 samples:** Occupational health samples 44 personal. 2 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 4 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 323 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 128 contested-violation rows, 128 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 67 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 — 20 since 2021:** Inspections 84 inspection events and 2K 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 56.18002 — Examination of working places.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-Q/section-56.18002
- **30 CFR 46.5 — New miner training.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-46/section-46.5
- **30 CFR 56.16006 — Protection of gas cylinder valves.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-O/section-56.16006
- **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 56.9300 — 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 56.4603 — Closure of valves.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-C/section-56.4603
- **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 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 56.11001 — 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 56.14130 — Roll-over protective structures (ROPS) and seat belts.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14130
- **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

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 2 rows; 2001-06-13 through 2005-10-24; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2025-04-11 through 2025-04-11; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 387 rows; 2001-05-01 through 2026-06-30; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 128 rows; 2005-09-20 through 2023-09-07; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Conferences:** 67 rows; 2012-05-23 through 2023-10-23; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 128 rows; 2004-05-11 through 2023-03-08; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 51 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 3 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 1950-01-01 through 2020-01-27; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 84 rows; 2001-05-01 through 2026-06-29; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 264 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 68 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:** 44 rows; 2001-05-02 through 2026-03-12; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 395 rows; 2001-05-01 through 2026-06-30; 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/worcester-sand-stone-1900956`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/worcester-sand-stone-1900956`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1900956/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1900956/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1900956/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`