# PORTVILLE SAND & GRAVEL

- **MSHA mine ID:** 3000949
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Construction Sand and Gravel
- **Location:** Cattaraugus, NY
- **Operator:** I A Construction Corp
- **Controller:** Fairchild Brothers Holding Company
- **Public source rows linked:** 582
- **Source coverage:** 15 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-18T09:31:49.615Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Fairchild Brothers Holding Company (0199361) → I A Construction Corp (L06066) → PORTVILLE SAND & GRAVEL (3000949)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Colas S A → I A Construction Corp:** 1950-01-01 through 2026-02-19; derived from co-tenure at mine 3000949; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Fairchild Brothers Holding Company → I A Construction Corp:** 2026-02-20 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3000949; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 2
- Typed edges: 5
- 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: 2026-10-18T09:31:49.615908+00:00.

## Assessment signals

1. **SAFETY — 0 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 1 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 28 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 23 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 79 violation rows across the full record; 12 carry an S&S flag and $9,615 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 15 samples:** Occupational health samples 15 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 3K employee hours and 7 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 4 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 1 contested-violation rows, 1 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 2 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 3 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 — 9 since 2021:** Inspections 43 inspection events and 673 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 56.14100 — 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 56.14132 — 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 56.4201 — Inspection.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-C/section-56.4201
- **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 56.4200 — General requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-C/section-56.4200
- **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 56.14107 — Moving machine parts.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14107
- **30 CFR 47.41 — Requirement for container labels.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-47/subpart-E/section-47.41
- **30 CFR 56.4101 — Warning signs.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-C/section-56.4101
- **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

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 1 rows; 2016-04-26 through 2016-04-26; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2026-04-30 through 2026-04-30; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 77 rows; 2000-06-13 through 2026-09-09; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 1 rows; 2015-08-13 through 2015-08-13; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Conferences:** 2 rows; 2007-03-07 through 2007-03-07; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 1 rows; 2014-10-15 through 2014-10-15; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 80 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 14 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 1950-01-01 through 1950-01-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 43 rows; 2000-06-13 through 2026-09-08; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 212 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 53 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:** 15 rows; 2011-08-03 through 2026-06-09; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 79 rows; 2000-06-13 through 2026-09-09; 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/portville-sand-gravel-3000949`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/portville-sand-gravel-3000949`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/3000949/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/3000949/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://3000949/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`