# M & M Flag Stone

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4003303
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Dimension Stone NEC
- **Location:** Bledsoe, TN
- **Operator:** Silvara Stone Co LLC
- **Controller:** Jon Munroe  Kraus
- **Public source rows linked:** 156
- **Source coverage:** 12 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Jon Munroe  Kraus (0114023) → Silvara Stone Co LLC (0133894) → M & M Flag Stone (4003303)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Mark  Ritchey → M & M Flag Stone:** 2007-08-23 through 2017-06-05; derived from co-tenure at mine 4003303; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Jon Munroe  Kraus → Silvara Stone Co LLC:** 2017-06-06 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4003303; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 2
- Typed edges: 6
- 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 15 violation rows across the full record; 1 carry an S&S flag and $1,490 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 11 samples:** Occupational health samples 11 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 — No published quarter:** Quarterly production and employment The source remains registered, but no mine-keyed quarterly production row was published.
5. **LEGAL — 12 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 6 contested-violation rows, 6 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 24 inspection events and 220 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 56.4402 — Safety can use.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-C/section-56.4402
- **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 50.30 — Preparation and submission of MSHA Form 7000-2—Quarterly Employment and Coal Production Report.** (4 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-D/section-50.30
- **30 CFR 56.6306 — Loading, blasting, and security.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-E/section-56.6306
- **30 CFR 56.6202 — Vehicles.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-E/section-56.6202
- **30 CFR 56.6133 — Powder chests.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-E/section-56.6133

## Source coverage

- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2019-10-01 through 2019-10-01; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 15 rows; 2011-03-16 through 2019-06-12; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 6 rows; 2012-11-23 through 2012-11-23; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Contested Violations:** 6 rows; 2011-07-14 through 2011-07-14; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 40 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 12 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 2007-08-23 through 2017-06-06; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 24 rows; 2007-12-14 through 2019-06-12; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 23 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:** 11 rows; 2010-09-21 through 2017-08-17; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 15 rows; 2011-03-16 through 2019-06-12; 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/m-m-flag-stone-4003303`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/m-m-flag-stone-4003303`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4003303/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4003303/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4003303/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`