# Plant 280

- **MSHA mine ID:** 3901505
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Construction Sand and Gravel
- **Location:** Brookings, SD
- **Operator:** Bowes Construction Inc
- **Controller:** Jason  Bowes
- **Public source rows linked:** 382
- **Source coverage:** 13 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Jason  Bowes (0177901) → Bowes Construction Inc (L31173) → Plant 280 (3901505)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Lyle  Bowes → Bowes Construction Inc:** 2005-05-09 through 2016-04-13; derived from co-tenure at mine 3901505; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Jason  Bowes et al → Bowes Construction Inc:** 2016-04-14 through 2023-04-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 3901505; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Miranda C  Bowes Peterson et al → Bowes Construction Inc:** 2016-04-14 through 2023-04-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 3901505; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Jason  Bowes → Bowes Construction Inc:** 2023-05-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3901505; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 4
- Typed edges: 8
- 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 — 2 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 2 historical accident/injury rows; 1 coded fatalities and 29 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 60 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 108 violation rows across the full record; 20 carry an S&S flag and $72,536 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 14 samples:** Occupational health samples 12 personal; 2 area. 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 4 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 14 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 7 contested-violation rows, 7 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 — 11 since 2021:** Inspections 33 inspection events and 854 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 56.18002 — Examination of working places.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-Q/section-56.18002
- **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 56.12004 — Electrical conductors.** (6 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12004
- **30 CFR 56.15001 — First-aid materials.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-N/section-56.15001
- **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
- **30 CFR 56.4201 — Inspection.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-C/section-56.4201

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 2 rows; 2023-05-02 through 2024-08-19; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2026-03-26 through 2026-03-26; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Metal and Nonmetal Area Samples:** 2 rows; 2014-07-08 through 2014-07-08; source ID `msha-area-samples`
- **Assessed Violations:** 107 rows; 2006-05-02 through 2026-07-08; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 7 rows; 2010-08-16 through 2025-03-18; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Contested Violations:** 7 rows; 2009-05-27 through 2024-01-02; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 4 rows; 2005-05-09 through 2005-05-09; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 33 rows; 2006-05-02 through 2026-07-07; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 78 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`
- **Metal and Nonmetal Personal Health Samples:** 12 rows; 2006-05-03 through 2026-03-25; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 108 rows; 2006-05-02 through 2026-07-08; 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/plant-280-3901505`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/plant-280-3901505`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/3901505/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/3901505/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://3901505/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`