# Heavy Media Plant

- **MSHA mine ID:** 2000680
- **Status:** Intermittent
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Construction Sand and Gravel
- **Location:** Eaton, MI
- **Operator:** Gale Briggs Inc
- **Controller:** Betty J  Briggs; Steve J  Briggs
- **Public source rows linked:** 347
- **Source coverage:** 9 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Betty J  Briggs; Steve J  Briggs (M09241) → Gale Briggs Inc (L11996) → Heavy Media Plant (2000680)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Betty J  Briggs  et al → Gale Briggs Inc:** 1950-01-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 2000680; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Steve J  Briggs  et al → Gale Briggs Inc:** 1950-01-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 2000680; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 2
- Typed edges: 4
- 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 — 4 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 29 violation rows across the full record; 7 carry an S&S flag and $3,944 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 — 0 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 0 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 — 8 since 2021:** Inspections 34 inspection events and 260 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 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 56.4104 — 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 56.12018 — 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 56.12030 — Correction of dangerous conditions.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12030
- **30 CFR 56.14207 — Parking procedures for unattended equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14207
- **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 56.14100 — 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 56.12025 — 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 56.14107 — Moving machine parts.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14107
- **30 CFR 56.11027 — Scaffolds and working platforms.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-J/section-56.11027

## Source coverage

- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 1978-12-26 through 1978-12-26; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 28 rows; 2003-09-16 through 2026-03-05; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 1950-01-01 through 1950-01-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 34 rows; 2002-06-27 through 2026-03-05; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 200 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 48 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; 2004-07-07 through 2015-09-24; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 29 rows; 2003-09-16 through 2026-03-05; 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/heavy-media-plant-2000680`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/heavy-media-plant-2000680`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/2000680/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/2000680/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://2000680/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`