# Poteet Plant

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4105415
- **Status:** Intermittent
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Ground Silica
- **Location:** Atascosa, TX
- **Operator:** Carousel Energy Services
- **Controller:** Carl L  Mitchell
- **Public source rows linked:** 496
- **Source coverage:** 14 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Carl L  Mitchell (0145881) → Carousel Energy Services (0161753) → Poteet Plant (4105415)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Carl L  Mitchell → Carousel Energy Services:** 2019-02-20 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4105415; 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: 2026-10-13T11:19:05.459773+00:00.

## Assessment signals

1. **SAFETY — 1 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 5 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 59 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 128 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 157 violation rows across the full record; 38 carry an S&S flag and $210,803 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 11 samples:** Occupational health samples 11 personal. 4 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 2K employee hours and 8 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 — 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 — 24 since 2021:** Inspections 33 inspection events and 492 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 41.30 — Address of record and telephone number.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-G/part-41/subpart-C/section-41.30
- **30 CFR 41.12 — Changes; notification by operator.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-G/part-41/subpart-B/section-41.12
- **30 CFR 56.20003 — Housekeeping.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-S/section-56.20003
- **30 CFR 56.13021 — High-pressure hose connections.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-L/section-56.13021
- **30 CFR 56.11001 — Safe access.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-J/section-56.11001
- **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
- **30 CFR 56.13011 — Air receiver tanks.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-L/section-56.13011
- **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 56.12016 — Work on electrically-powered equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12016

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 5 rows; 2019-10-04 through 2021-05-25; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2026-06-30 through 2026-06-30; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 156 rows; 2019-04-23 through 2025-08-05; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 7 rows; 2021-12-01 through 2025-08-28; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Contested Violations:** 7 rows; 2021-04-14 through 2025-01-15; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 33 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 9 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 2019-02-20 through 2019-02-20; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 33 rows; 2019-04-23 through 2026-06-24; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 59 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 16 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; 2021-04-15 through 2024-06-12; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 157 rows; 2019-04-23 through 2025-08-05; 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/poteet-plant-4105415`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/poteet-plant-4105415`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4105415/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4105415/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4105415/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`