# Turk Pit

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4503715
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Construction Sand and Gravel
- **Location:** Snohomish, WA
- **Operator:** Pacific Topsoils, Inc.
- **Controller:** Sandra  Forman
- **Public source rows linked:** 67
- **Source coverage:** 10 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Sandra  Forman (0109567) → Pacific Topsoils, Inc. (0080044) → Turk Pit (4503715)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Dave  Forman → Pacific Topsoils, Inc.:** 2013-04-16 through 2013-04-15; derived from co-tenure at mine 4503715; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Sandra  Forman → Pacific Topsoils, Inc.:** 2013-04-16 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4503715; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 2
- Typed edges: 5
- Interval anomalies: 1
- 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 0 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 18 violation rows across the full record; 4 carry an S&S flag and $2,515 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 1 samples:** Occupational health samples 1 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 2 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 6 inspection events and 93 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 56.12028 — Testing grounding systems.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12028
- **30 CFR 56.12018 — Identification of power switches.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12018
- **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 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 56.12027 — Grounding mobile equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12027
- **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
- **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 56.14107 — Moving machine parts.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14107
- **30 CFR 56.4200 — General requirements.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-C/section-56.4200
- **30 CFR 56.4101 — Warning signs.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-C/section-56.4101

## Source coverage

- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2016-10-07 through 2016-10-07; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 18 rows; 2013-05-14 through 2016-04-06; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Conferences:** 2 rows; 2014-10-16 through 2014-10-16; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 2013-04-16 through 2013-04-16; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 6 rows; 2013-05-13 through 2016-04-06; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 14 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 4 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:** 1 rows; 2014-09-10 through 2014-09-10; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 18 rows; 2013-05-14 through 2016-04-06; 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/turk-pit-4503715`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/turk-pit-4503715`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4503715/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4503715/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4503715/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`