# PIONEER SAND PIT

- **MSHA mine ID:** 3304467
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Facility / Construction Sand and Gravel
- **Location:** Williams, OH
- **Operator:** Gerken Materials Inc
- **Controller:** Julian A  Gerken
- **Public source rows linked:** 94
- **Source coverage:** 10 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Julian A  Gerken (M33600) → Gerken Materials Inc (L33600) → PIONEER SAND PIT (3304467)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Julian A  Gerken → Gerken Materials Inc:** 2000-11-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3304467; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 1
- Typed edges: 3
- 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 5 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 1 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 11 violation rows across the full record; 4 carry an S&S flag and $829 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 6 samples:** Occupational health samples 6 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 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 — 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 — 0 since 2021:** Inspections 9 inspection events and 105 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 56.4502 — Battery-charging stations.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-C/section-56.4502
- **30 CFR 62.130 — Permissible exposure level.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-M/part-62/section-62.130
- **30 CFR 56.9300 — Berms or guardrails.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-H/section-56.9300
- **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 56.12018 — 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
- **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 56.9100 — Traffic control.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-H/section-56.9100
- **30 CFR 56.14130 — Roll-over protective structures (ROPS) and seat belts.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14130
- **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

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 5 rows; 2000-10-09 through 2004-11-18; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2005-11-23 through 2005-11-23; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 11 rows; 2000-12-04 through 2004-10-04; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 2000-11-01 through 2000-11-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 9 rows; 2000-12-04 through 2005-11-02; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 38 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 11 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:** 6 rows; 2000-12-05 through 2003-05-13; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 11 rows; 2000-12-04 through 2004-10-04; 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/pioneer-sand-pit-3304467`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/pioneer-sand-pit-3304467`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/3304467/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/3304467/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://3304467/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`