# Van Buren Stone

- **MSHA mine ID:** 2302080
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Crushed, Broken Limestone NEC
- **Location:** Carter, MO
- **Operator:** Bluewing Materials
- **Controller:** (Lowell) Austin  Williams; Christopher C Williams
- **Public source rows linked:** 590
- **Source coverage:** 11 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**(Lowell) Austin  Williams; Christopher C Williams (0186161) → Bluewing Materials (0196893) → Van Buren Stone (2302080)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Lenny J  Crider  et al → Crider Brothers Lime Co Inc:** 1993-05-01 through 2006-06-18; derived from co-tenure at mine 2302080; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Samuel W  Crider  et al → Crider Brothers Lime Co Inc:** 1993-05-01 through 2006-06-18; derived from co-tenure at mine 2302080; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Jason W  Gibbs et al → Van Buren Stone Co., LLC.:** 2006-06-19 through 2023-03-02; derived from co-tenure at mine 2302080; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Terry L  Gibbs et al → Van Buren Stone Co., LLC.:** 2006-06-19 through 2023-03-02; derived from co-tenure at mine 2302080; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Christopher Claud  Williams → Cane Creek Stone:** 2023-03-03 through 2024-06-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 2302080; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **(Lowell) Austin  Williams et al → Bluewing Materials:** 2024-07-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 2302080; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Christopher C Williams et al → Bluewing Materials:** 2024-07-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 2302080; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Lenny J  Crider → Crider Brothers Lime Co Inc:** 2026-06-12 through 2006-06-18; derived from co-tenure at mine 2302080; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 8
- Typed edges: 17
- Interval anomalies: 1
- 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 1 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 4 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 23 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 90 violation rows across the full record; 15 carry an S&S flag and $11,192 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 13 samples:** Occupational health samples 13 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 2K employee hours and 9 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 — 14 since 2021:** Inspections 56 inspection events and 672 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.** (4 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14107
- **30 CFR 56.12013 — Splices and repairs of power cables.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12013
- **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 56.14100 — 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 56.14132 — 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 56.4601 — Oxygen cylinder storage.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-C/section-56.4601
- **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

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 1 rows; 2000-08-16 through 2000-08-16; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2010-04-09 through 2010-04-09; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 89 rows; 2000-09-13 through 2025-12-29; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Conferences:** 2 rows; 2012-09-19 through 2012-09-19; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 8 rows; 1993-05-01 through 2024-07-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 56 rows; 2000-09-13 through 2026-07-15; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 268 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 61 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:** 13 rows; 2002-06-27 through 2026-07-16; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 90 rows; 2000-09-13 through 2025-12-29; 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/van-buren-stone-2302080`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/van-buren-stone-2302080`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/2302080/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/2302080/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://2302080/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`