# LaCrosse Sand Pit

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4503546
- **Status:** Intermittent
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Sand, Industrial NEC
- **Location:** Whitman, WA
- **Operator:** Pre-Mix Inc N.W.
- **Controller:** Frank J Motley
- **Public source rows linked:** 323
- **Source coverage:** 12 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Frank J Motley (0041827) → Pre-Mix Inc N.W. (0051337) → LaCrosse Sand Pit (4503546)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Frank J Motley → Pre-Mix Inc N.W.:** 2003-06-24 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4503546; 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 2 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 1 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 39 violation rows across the full record; 3 carry an S&S flag and $3,875 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 3 samples:** Occupational health samples 3 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 1K employee hours and 3 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 2 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 1 contested-violation rows, 1 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 0 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 — 8 since 2021:** Inspections 28 inspection events and 358 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 56.12005 — Protection of power conductors from mobile equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12005
- **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 56.14100 — 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 56.12008 — Insulation and fittings for power wires and cables.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12008
- **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 56.9300 — Berms or guardrails.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-H/section-56.9300
- **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 56.14107 — Moving machine parts.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14107
- **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

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 2 rows; 2003-07-21 through 2004-11-10; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2003-06-25 through 2003-06-25; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 39 rows; 2003-07-29 through 2021-05-11; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 1 rows; 2010-11-24 through 2010-11-24; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Contested Violations:** 1 rows; 2009-03-11 through 2009-03-11; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 2003-06-24 through 2003-06-24; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 28 rows; 2003-07-29 through 2026-06-10; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 166 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 41 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:** 3 rows; 2014-03-19 through 2020-07-13; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 39 rows; 2003-07-29 through 2021-05-11; 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/lacrosse-sand-pit-4503546`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/lacrosse-sand-pit-4503546`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4503546/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4503546/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4503546/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`