# Tiverton Plant

- **MSHA mine ID:** 3700184
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Crushed, Broken Granite
- **Location:** Newport, RI
- **Operator:** Viking Stone Corp
- **Controller:** Frank  Mello
- **Public source rows linked:** 530
- **Source coverage:** 13 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Frank  Mello (M39866) → Viking Stone Corp (L39866) → Tiverton Plant (3700184)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Frank  Mello → Viking Stone Corp:** 1993-10-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3700184; 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: 2026-10-17T05:35:58.500035+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 102 violation rows across the full record; 26 carry an S&S flag and $21,641 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 1K employee hours and 5 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 21 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 6 contested-violation rows, 6 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 9 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 — 0 since 2021:** Inspections 34 inspection events and 414 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 56.14130 — Roll-over protective structures (ROPS) and seat belts.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14130
- **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 56.12025 — Grounding circuit enclosures.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12025
- **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 56.14115 — Stationary grinding machines.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14115
- **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 56.20003 — 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 56.9300 — 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 56.15020 — Life jackets and belts.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-N/section-56.15020

## Source coverage

- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2015-08-17 through 2015-08-17; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 90 rows; 2000-02-23 through 2014-01-28; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 6 rows; 2011-03-02 through 2014-06-10; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Conferences:** 9 rows; 2007-03-22 through 2007-03-22; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 6 rows; 2009-06-23 through 2013-06-05; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 179 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 49 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 1993-10-01 through 1993-10-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 34 rows; 2000-02-23 through 2014-01-28; 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:** 28 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Violations:** 102 rows; 2000-02-23 through 2014-01-28; 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/tiverton-plant-3700184`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/tiverton-plant-3700184`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/3700184/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/3700184/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://3700184/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`