# DEER ISLAND PLANT

- **MSHA mine ID:** 3502885
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Construction Sand and Gravel
- **Location:** Columbia, OR
- **Operator:** Morse Brothers Inc
- **Controller:** Knife River Corporation
- **Public source rows linked:** 254
- **Source coverage:** 13 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Knife River Corporation (0176802) → Morse Brothers Inc (L16679) → DEER ISLAND PLANT (3502885)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Louis J  Fasano  et al → Deer Island Sand & Gravel Company:** 1979-01-01 through 1983-09-14; derived from co-tenure at mine 3502885; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Darold  Dietz  et al → Dietz Brothers Inc:** 1983-09-15 through 1985-02-20; derived from co-tenure at mine 3502885; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Louis J  Fasano  et al → Deer Island Sand & Gravel Company:** 1985-02-21 through 1989-02-13; derived from co-tenure at mine 3502885; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Bob  Hendrickson → Deer Island Materials:** 1989-02-14 through 1992-05-25; derived from co-tenure at mine 3502885; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Morse Brothers Inc → Morse Brothers Inc:** 1992-05-26 through 1998-03-04; derived from co-tenure at mine 3502885; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **MDU Resources Group Inc → Morse Brothers Inc:** 1998-03-05 through 2023-05-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 3502885; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Knife River Corporation → Morse Brothers Inc:** 2023-06-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3502885; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 7
- Typed edges: 19
- 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 10 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 43 violation rows across the full record; 7 carry an S&S flag and $3,151 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 4 samples:** Occupational health samples 4 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 10 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 4 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 0 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 4 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 — 0 since 2021:** Inspections 21 inspection events and 330 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 56.16005 — 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 56.11002 — Handrails and toeboards.** (5 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-J/section-56.11002
- **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 56.12032 — Inspection and cover plates.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12032
- **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 56.13015 — Inspection of compressed-air receivers and other unfired pressure vessels.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-L/section-56.13015

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 5 rows; 2000-02-10 through 2004-02-02; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2004-11-10 through 2004-11-10; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 42 rows; 2000-08-15 through 2004-06-30; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Conferences:** 4 rows; 2004-07-22 through 2004-07-22; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 63 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 13 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 7 rows; 1979-01-01 through 1998-03-05; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 21 rows; 2000-01-25 through 2004-09-07; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 40 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 10 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:** 4 rows; 2003-11-19 through 2003-11-19; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 43 rows; 2000-08-15 through 2004-06-30; 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/deer-island-plant-3502885`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/deer-island-plant-3502885`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/3502885/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/3502885/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://3502885/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`