# STAFFORD

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4404624
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Crushed, Broken Granite
- **Location:** Stafford, VA
- **Operator:** Vulcan Construction Materials, LLC
- **Controller:** Vulcan Materials Company
- **Public source rows linked:** 2,247
- **Source coverage:** 15 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Vulcan Materials Company (0071891) → Vulcan Construction Materials, LLC (L16168) → STAFFORD (4404624)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Legacy Vulcan Corp (Form:Vulcan Materials Co) → Vulcan Construction Materials, LLC:** 1950-01-01 through 2007-11-15; derived from co-tenure at mine 4404624; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Vulcan Materials Company → Vulcan Construction Materials, LLC:** 2007-11-16 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4404624; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 2
- Typed edges: 5
- 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 — 0 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 11 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 388 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 7 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 78 violation rows across the full record; 10 carry an S&S flag and $16,549 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 48 samples:** Occupational health samples 48 personal. 1 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 21K employee hours and 37 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 27 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 8 contested-violation rows, 8 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 11 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 14 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 — 15 since 2021:** Inspections 64 inspection events and 2K 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.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14100
- **30 CFR 56.20003 — Housekeeping.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-S/section-56.20003
- **30 CFR 56.14103 — Operators stations.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14103
- **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 56.4200 — General requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-C/section-56.4200
- **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 56.3200 — Correction of hazardous conditions.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-B/section-56.3200
- **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

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 11 rows; 2003-04-15 through 2015-06-02; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2011-01-12 through 2011-01-12; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 78 rows; 2000-08-15 through 2022-12-13; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 8 rows; 2009-02-17 through 2022-12-27; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Conferences:** 11 rows; 2008-02-11 through 2023-01-11; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 8 rows; 2007-09-25 through 2022-05-11; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 1,258 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 280 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 1950-01-01 through 1950-01-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 64 rows; 2000-03-21 through 2026-05-04; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 318 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 81 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:** 48 rows; 2001-10-25 through 2026-05-19; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 78 rows; 2000-08-15 through 2022-12-13; 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/stafford-4404624`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/stafford-4404624`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4404624/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4404624/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4404624/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`