# Drowning Creek Dredge & Plant

- **MSHA mine ID:** 3100718
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Facility / Sand, Industrial NEC
- **Location:** Richmond, NC
- **Operator:** Southern Products and Silica Company
- **Controller:** Scott L.  Bradsher; Vera  Bradsher
- **Public source rows linked:** 785
- **Source coverage:** 15 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Scott L.  Bradsher; Vera  Bradsher (0186026) → Southern Products and Silica Company (0126613) → Drowning Creek Dredge & Plant (3100718)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Marshall B  Gilchrist → Southern Products & Silica Company Inc:** 1950-01-01 through 2013-01-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 3100718; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Robert L  Bradsher → Southern Products and Silica Company:** 2013-01-31 through 2021-09-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 3100718; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Robert L. Bradsher Family Trust → Southern Products and Silica Company:** 2021-10-01 through 2024-07-14; derived from co-tenure at mine 3100718; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Vera  Bradsher et al → Southern Products and Silica Company:** 2024-07-15 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3100718; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Scott L.  Bradsher et al → Southern Products and Silica Company:** 2024-07-15 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3100718; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 5
- Typed edges: 11
- 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 — 2 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 11 historical accident/injury rows; 1 coded fatalities and 112 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 9 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 177 violation rows across the full record; 42 carry an S&S flag and $33,564 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 90 samples:** Occupational health samples 90 personal. 7 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 15K employee hours and 33 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 15 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 5 contested-violation rows, 5 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 5 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 — 19 since 2021:** Inspections 101 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 56.12025 — Grounding circuit enclosures.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12025
- **30 CFR 56.14112 — Construction and maintenance of guards.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14112
- **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 56.14105 — Procedures during repairs or maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14105
- **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
- **30 CFR 56.15004 — Eye protection.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-N/section-56.15004
- **30 CFR 46.7 — New task training.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-46/section-46.7
- **30 CFR 62.120 — Action level.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-M/part-62/section-62.120
- **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 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

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 11 rows; 2001-04-05 through 2023-04-18; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 1973-06-08 through 1973-06-08; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 171 rows; 2000-04-26 through 2025-11-12; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 5 rows; 2013-06-17 through 2023-03-21; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Conferences:** 5 rows; 2004-10-20 through 2022-08-02; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 5 rows; 2013-02-01 through 2022-02-14; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 107 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:** 5 rows; 1950-01-01 through 2013-01-31; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 101 rows; 2000-04-26 through 2026-07-22; 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:** 68 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:** 90 rows; 2002-01-23 through 2025-12-03; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 177 rows; 2000-04-26 through 2025-11-12; 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/drowning-creek-dredge-plant-3100718`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/drowning-creek-dredge-plant-3100718`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/3100718/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/3100718/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://3100718/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`