# Plattes Valley Sand

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4703643
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Sand, Industrial NEC
- **Location:** Buffalo, WI
- **Operator:** Sand Technologies LLC
- **Controller:** Tim R  Barth; Tom J  Griffith
- **Public source rows linked:** 57
- **Source coverage:** 8 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Tim R  Barth; Tom J  Griffith (0104235) → Sand Technologies LLC (0122731) → Plattes Valley Sand (4703643)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Tom J  Griffith et al → Sand Technologies LLC:** 2012-05-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4703643; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Tim R  Barth et al → Sand Technologies LLC:** 2012-05-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4703643; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 2
- Typed edges: 4
- 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 0 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 5 violation rows across the full record; 2 carry an S&S flag and $500 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 0 samples:** Occupational health samples No published samples. 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 — 0 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 0 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 — 0 since 2021:** Inspections 10 inspection events and 91 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.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12028
- **30 CFR 56.4402 — Safety can use.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-C/section-56.4402
- **30 CFR 56.14131 — Seat belts for haulage trucks.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14131
- **30 CFR 56.11012 — Protection for openings around travelways.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-J/section-56.11012
- **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

## Source coverage

- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2020-11-03 through 2020-11-03; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 5 rows; 2012-09-18 through 2014-08-20; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 2012-05-01 through 2012-05-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 10 rows; 2012-09-18 through 2020-06-30; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 30 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 3 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Violations:** 5 rows; 2012-09-18 through 2014-08-20; 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/plattes-valley-sand-4703643`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/plattes-valley-sand-4703643`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4703643/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4703643/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4703643/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`