# WARD SAND & MATERIALS CO.

- **MSHA mine ID:** 2800747
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Construction Sand and Gravel
- **Location:** Burlington, NJ
- **Operator:** Ward Sand & Materials Company
- **Controller:** James D  Morrissey III
- **Public source rows linked:** 564
- **Source coverage:** 12 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**James D  Morrissey III (0196341) → Ward Sand & Materials Company (L04462) → WARD SAND & MATERIALS CO. (2800747)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Liberty Corp → Lockhart Sand Company:** 1950-01-01 through 1980-04-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 2800747; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **James D  Morrissey Jr → Ward Sand & Materials Company:** 1980-05-01 through 2025-10-15; derived from co-tenure at mine 2800747; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **James D  Morrissey III → Ward Sand & Materials Company:** 2025-10-16 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 2800747; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 3
- Typed edges: 8
- 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 1 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 21 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 69 violation rows across the full record; 14 carry an S&S flag and $7,955 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 14 samples:** Occupational health samples 14 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 4K employee hours and 6 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 — 2 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 57 inspection events and 720 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 56.14116 — Hand-held power tools.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14116
- **30 CFR 56.14100 — Safety defects; examination, correction and records.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14100
- **30 CFR 56.14101 — Brakes.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14101
- **30 CFR 50.30-1 — General instructions for completing MSHA Form 7000-2.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-D/section-50.30-1
- **30 CFR 56.17001 — Illumination of surface working areas.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-P/section-56.17001
- **30 CFR 46.9 — Records of training.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-46/section-46.9
- **30 CFR 50.30 — Preparation and submission of MSHA Form 7000-2—Quarterly Employment and Coal Production Report.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-D/section-50.30
- **30 CFR 56.20003 — Housekeeping.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-S/section-56.20003
- **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

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 1 rows; 2014-02-02 through 2014-02-02; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2012-01-19 through 2012-01-19; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 69 rows; 2001-06-21 through 2026-07-17; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 61 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 18 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 1950-01-01 through 1980-05-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 57 rows; 2000-02-24 through 2026-07-16; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 214 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 56 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:** 14 rows; 2002-08-22 through 2024-10-17; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 69 rows; 2001-06-21 through 2026-07-17; 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/ward-sand-materials-co-2800747`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/ward-sand-materials-co-2800747`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/2800747/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/2800747/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://2800747/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`