# Dickey Pit

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4502574
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Construction Sand and Gravel
- **Location:** Kitsap, WA
- **Operator:** Ace Paving Company Inc
- **Controller:** Richard N  Christopherson
- **Public source rows linked:** 390
- **Source coverage:** 15 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Richard N  Christopherson (M00558) → Ace Paving Company Inc (L00676) → Dickey Pit (4502574)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Richard N  Christopherson → Ace Paving Company Inc:** 1978-03-09 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4502574; 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 — 0 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 4 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 4 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 85 violation rows across the full record; 23 carry an S&S flag and $16,079 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 7 samples:** Occupational health samples 7 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 210 employee hours and 1 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 35 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 12 contested-violation rows, 16 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 7 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 36 inspection events and 622 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 56.3200 — 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 56.14107 — Moving machine parts.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14107
- **30 CFR 56.20003 — Housekeeping.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-S/section-56.20003
- **30 CFR 56.14112 — Construction and maintenance of guards.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14112
- **30 CFR 47.41 — Requirement for container labels.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-47/subpart-E/section-47.41
- **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 46.9 — Records of training.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-46/section-46.9
- **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:** 4 rows; 2004-07-07 through 2011-09-08; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2014-02-24 through 2014-02-24; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 83 rows; 2000-11-14 through 2012-07-26; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 16 rows; 2002-06-03 through 2012-01-25; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Conferences:** 7 rows; 2007-07-09 through 2007-07-09; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 12 rows; 2007-03-13 through 2009-08-06; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 1978-03-09 through 1978-03-09; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 36 rows; 2000-11-14 through 2012-08-14; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 113 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 22 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:** 7 rows; 2000-11-14 through 2004-06-23; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 85 rows; 2000-11-14 through 2012-07-26; 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/dickey-pit-4502574`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/dickey-pit-4502574`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4502574/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4502574/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4502574/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`