# Fort Payne Quarry

- **MSHA mine ID:** 0100028
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Crushed, Broken Limestone NEC
- **Location:** De Kalb, AL
- **Operator:** Vulcan Construction Materials, LLC
- **Controller:** Vulcan Materials Company
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,527
- **Source coverage:** 15 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Vulcan Materials Company (0071891) → Vulcan Construction Materials, LLC (L16168) → Fort Payne Quarry (0100028)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **T & T Oil Company Inc et al → Fort Payne Quarry LLC:** 1950-01-01 through 2007-05-03; derived from co-tenure at mine 0100028; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Shakespeare Oil Company Inc et al → Fort Payne Quarry LLC:** 1950-01-01 through 2007-05-03; derived from co-tenure at mine 0100028; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Legacy Vulcan Corp (Form:Vulcan Materials Co) → Vulcan Construction Materials, LLC:** 2007-05-04 through 2007-11-15; derived from co-tenure at mine 0100028; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Vulcan Materials Company → Vulcan Construction Materials, LLC:** 2007-11-16 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 0100028; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 4
- Typed edges: 9
- 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 — 2 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 22 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 444 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 6 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 171 violation rows across the full record; 51 carry an S&S flag and $26,740 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 67 samples:** Occupational health samples 67 personal. 1 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 8K employee hours and 14 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 13 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 4 contested-violation rows, 4 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 5 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 3 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 — 16 since 2021:** Inspections 98 inspection events and 2K 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 56.14130 — Roll-over protective structures (ROPS) and seat belts.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14130
- **30 CFR 56.12004 — Electrical conductors.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12004
- **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 56.17001 — Illumination of surface working areas.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-P/section-56.17001
- **30 CFR 50.20-1 — General instructions for completing MSHA Form 7000-1.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-C/section-50.20-1
- **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 56.4402 — 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 56.14107 — 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 56.14112 — 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 56.11003 — Construction and maintenance of ladders.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-J/section-56.11003

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 22 rows; 2000-04-05 through 2023-02-06; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 1977-03-25 through 1977-03-25; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 171 rows; 2000-02-23 through 2024-01-31; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 4 rows; 2012-11-27 through 2024-07-30; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Conferences:** 5 rows; 2002-02-04 through 2023-04-13; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 4 rows; 2009-07-28 through 2022-07-26; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 444 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 97 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 4 rows; 1950-01-01 through 2007-05-04; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 98 rows; 2000-02-22 through 2026-07-21; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 350 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 88 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:** 67 rows; 2000-10-12 through 2024-12-18; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 171 rows; 2000-02-23 through 2024-01-31; 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/fort-payne-quarry-0100028`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/fort-payne-quarry-0100028`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/0100028/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/0100028/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://0100028/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`