# Brunk Excavating Inc

- **MSHA mine ID:** 3304604
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Sand, Industrial NEC
- **Location:** Butler, OH
- **Operator:** Brunk Excavating Inc.
- **Controller:** Dennis R  Brunk; Michael J  Brunk
- **Public source rows linked:** 591
- **Source coverage:** 10 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Dennis R  Brunk; Michael J  Brunk (0114181) → Brunk Excavating Inc. (0134133) → Brunk Excavating Inc (3304604)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **James R  Blevins → Blevins Trucking & Materials Inc:** 2008-02-27 through 2014-07-13; derived from co-tenure at mine 3304604; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Michael J  Brunk et al → Brunk Excavating Inc.:** 2014-07-14 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3304604; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Dennis R  Brunk et al → Brunk Excavating Inc.:** 2014-07-14 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3304604; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 3
- Typed edges: 7
- 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 0 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 14 violation rows across the full record; 4 carry an S&S flag and $1,709 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 0 samples:** Occupational health samples No published samples. 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 564 employee hours and 3 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 — 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 — 0 since 2021:** Inspections 13 inspection events and 153 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 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 41.11 — Notification by operator.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-G/part-41/subpart-B/section-41.11
- **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 56.11001 — Safe access.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-J/section-56.11001
- **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 56.12028 — Testing grounding systems.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12028
- **30 CFR 46.5 — New miner training.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-46/section-46.5
- **30 CFR 56.15004 — Eye protection.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-N/section-56.15004
- **30 CFR 56.16005 — Securing gas cylinders.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-O/section-56.16005
- **30 CFR 50.30 — Preparation and submission of MSHA Form 7000-2—Quarterly Employment and Coal Production Report.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-D/section-50.30

## Source coverage

- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2017-08-02 through 2017-08-02; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 14 rows; 2008-10-30 through 2017-06-07; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 376 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 75 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 2008-02-27 through 2014-07-14; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 13 rows; 2008-05-20 through 2017-06-07; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 74 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 20 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Violations:** 14 rows; 2008-10-30 through 2017-06-07; 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/brunk-excavating-inc-3304604`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/brunk-excavating-inc-3304604`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/3304604/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/3304604/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://3304604/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`