# Sand Mountain Sand

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4406467
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Dimension Sandstone
- **Location:** Wythe, VA
- **Operator:** Salem Stone Corp
- **Controller:** Doug  Dalton
- **Public source rows linked:** 197
- **Source coverage:** 11 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Doug  Dalton (M13395) → Salem Stone Corp (L06269) → Sand Mountain Sand (4406467)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **B C  Umberger → Sand Moutain Sand Inc:** 1988-06-01 through 1996-04-14; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406467; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Doug  Dalton → Salem Stone Corp:** 1996-04-15 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406467; 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: 2026-10-13T11:19:05.459773+00:00.

## Assessment signals

1. **SAFETY — 0 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 3 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 43 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 17 violation rows across the full record; 8 carry an S&S flag and $1,692 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 10 samples:** Occupational health samples 10 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 — 2 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 0 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 — 0 since 2021:** Inspections 20 inspection events and 340 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 56.11002 — Handrails and toeboards.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-J/section-56.11002
- **30 CFR 47.44 — Temporary, portable containers.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-47/subpart-E/section-47.44
- **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 56.12004 — Electrical conductors.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12004
- **30 CFR 56.11001 — Safe access.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-J/section-56.11001
- **30 CFR 56.9100 — Traffic control.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-H/section-56.9100
- **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 56.12016 — 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
- **30 CFR 56.15005 — Safety belts and lines.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-N/section-56.15005
- **30 CFR 56.12013 — Splices and repairs of power cables.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12013

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 3 rows; 2000-10-26 through 2004-03-11; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2008-03-18 through 2008-03-18; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 17 rows; 2000-07-11 through 2006-10-12; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Conferences:** 2 rows; 2006-03-28 through 2006-03-28; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 1988-06-01 through 1996-04-15; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 20 rows; 2000-07-11 through 2008-01-04; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 100 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 24 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:** 10 rows; 2001-10-03 through 2006-02-07; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 17 rows; 2000-07-11 through 2006-10-12; 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/sand-mountain-sand-4406467`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/sand-mountain-sand-4406467`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4406467/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4406467/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4406467/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`