# West Crusher #4

- **MSHA mine ID:** 3901614
- **Status:** Temporarily Idled
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Crushed, Broken Limestone NEC
- **Location:** Converse, WY
- **Operator:** Croell, Inc.
- **Controller:** Kurt  Croell
- **Public source rows linked:** 90
- **Source coverage:** 13 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Kurt  Croell (0126881) → Croell, Inc. (L06685) → West Crusher #4 (3901614)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Kurt  Croell → Croell, Inc.:** 2016-06-22 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3901614; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Roger  Croell → Croell, Inc.:** 2016-06-22 through 2013-12-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 3901614; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 2
- Typed edges: 5
- Interval anomalies: 1
- 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 — 1 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 3 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 3 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 2 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 11 violation rows across the full record; 1 carry an S&S flag and $1,207 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 2 samples:** Occupational health samples 2 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 0 employee hours and 0 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 16 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 7 contested-violation rows, 7 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 2 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 — 2 since 2021:** Inspections 8 inspection events and 104 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 56.4201 — Inspection.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-C/section-56.4201
- **30 CFR 56.14207 — Parking procedures for unattended equipment.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14207
- **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 50.30 — Preparation and submission of MSHA Form 7000-2—Quarterly Employment and Coal Production Report.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-D/section-50.30
- **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 47.51 — Requirement for an MSDS.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-47/subpart-F/section-47.51
- **30 CFR 56.16006 — Protection of gas cylinder valves.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-O/section-56.16006
- **30 CFR 56.9300 — Berms or guardrails.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-H/section-56.9300

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 3 rows; 2017-08-16 through 2025-08-11; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2026-01-12 through 2026-01-12; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 10 rows; 2017-03-28 through 2025-09-16; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 7 rows; 2017-09-18 through 2018-05-04; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Conferences:** 2 rows; 2019-08-29 through 2019-08-29; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 7 rows; 2017-03-28 through 2017-12-07; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 2016-06-22 through 2016-06-22; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 8 rows; 2017-03-28 through 2026-08-18; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 27 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 9 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:** 2 rows; 2017-03-29 through 2017-03-29; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 11 rows; 2017-03-28 through 2026-08-18; 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/west-crusher-4-3901614`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/west-crusher-4-3901614`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/3901614/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/3901614/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://3901614/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`
