# Empire Blended Products Inc

- **MSHA mine ID:** 2800539
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Sand, Industrial NEC
- **Location:** Ocean, NJ
- **Operator:** Empire Blended Products Inc
- **Controller:** Randy  Gornitzky
- **Public source rows linked:** 644
- **Source coverage:** 15 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Randy  Gornitzky (0141561) → Empire Blended Products Inc (0157613) → Empire Blended Products Inc (2800539)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Martin E Tanzer → N J Pulverizing Company:** 1950-01-01 through 2018-03-25; derived from co-tenure at mine 2800539; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Randy  Gornitzky → Empire Blended Products Inc:** 2018-03-26 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 2800539; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 2
- Typed edges: 6
- 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: 2026-10-17T05:35:58.500035+00:00.

## Assessment signals

1. **SAFETY — 10 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 14 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 454 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 67 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 162 violation rows across the full record; 51 carry an S&S flag and $39,020 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 80 samples:** Occupational health samples 80 personal. 27 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 7K employee hours and 14 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 51 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 19 contested-violation rows, 19 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 13 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 — 18 since 2021:** Inspections 74 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 56.5001 — Exposure limits for airborne contaminants.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-D/section-56.5001
- **30 CFR 50.30 — Preparation and submission of MSHA Form 7000-2—Quarterly Employment and Coal Production Report.** (4 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-D/section-50.30
- **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 56.12030 — 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 56.14206 — Securing movable parts.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14206
- **30 CFR 56.20003 — Housekeeping.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-S/section-56.20003
- **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

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 14 rows; 2009-12-10 through 2026-09-11; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2023-03-21 through 2023-03-21; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 157 rows; 2001-02-13 through 2026-08-26; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 19 rows; 2005-03-17 through 2021-11-23; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Conferences:** 13 rows; 2005-12-28 through 2021-06-29; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 19 rows; 2004-10-27 through 2020-12-15; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 30 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 1950-01-01 through 2018-03-26; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 74 rows; 2000-05-10 through 2026-08-10; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 24 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 47 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:** 80 rows; 2001-02-14 through 2026-08-12; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 162 rows; 2001-02-13 through 2026-08-26; 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/empire-blended-products-inc-2800539`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/empire-blended-products-inc-2800539`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/2800539/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/2800539/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://2800539/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`