# BORAL CLAY PITS

- **MSHA mine ID:** 0100096
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Sand, Industrial NEC
- **Location:** Russell, AL
- **Operator:** General Shale Brick, Inc.
- **Controller:** Wienerberger AG
- **Public source rows linked:** 503
- **Source coverage:** 14 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Wienerberger AG (M13043) → General Shale Brick, Inc. (0057717) → BORAL CLAY PITS (0100096)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **R H  Bickerstaff → Bickerstaff Clay Products Company Inc:** 1950-01-01 through 1995-07-19; derived from co-tenure at mine 0100096; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Boral Limited → Boral Bricks Inc:** 1995-07-20 through 2017-03-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 0100096; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Boral Industries Inc et al → Meridian Brick LLC:** 2017-04-01 through 2021-10-17; derived from co-tenure at mine 0100096; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Lone Star Funds Inc et al → Meridian Brick LLC:** 2017-04-01 through 2021-10-17; derived from co-tenure at mine 0100096; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Wienerberger AG → Meridian Brick LLC:** 2021-10-18 through 2023-03-29; derived from co-tenure at mine 0100096; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Wienerberger AG → General Shale Brick, Inc.:** 2023-03-30 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 0100096; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 6
- Typed edges: 15
- 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 — 3 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 25 violation rows across the full record; 6 carry an S&S flag and $2,862 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 4 samples:** Occupational health samples 4 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 2K employee hours and 5 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 6 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 1 contested-violation rows, 5 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 0 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 2 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 — 12 since 2021:** Inspections 57 inspection events and 707 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 50.30 — Preparation and submission of MSHA Form 7000-2—Quarterly Employment and Coal Production Report.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-D/section-50.30
- **30 CFR 56.14132 — Horns and backup alarms.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14132
- **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 41.12 — Changes; notification by operator.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-G/part-41/subpart-B/section-41.12
- **30 CFR 56.18014 — Emergency medical assistance and transportation.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-Q/section-56.18014
- **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 50.20 — Preparation and submission of MSHA Report Form 7000-1—Mine Accident, Injury, and Illness Report.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-C/section-50.20

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 2 rows; 2002-01-17 through 2017-04-04; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2014-09-15 through 2014-09-15; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 25 rows; 2000-06-20 through 2026-04-28; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 5 rows; 2000-11-30 through 2015-06-30; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Contested Violations:** 1 rows; 2014-09-16 through 2014-09-16; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 131 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 32 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 6 rows; 1950-01-01 through 2023-03-30; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 57 rows; 2000-02-16 through 2026-04-28; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 186 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 27 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:** 4 rows; 2020-06-29 through 2020-06-29; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 25 rows; 2000-06-20 through 2026-04-28; 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/boral-clay-pits-0100096`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/boral-clay-pits-0100096`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/0100096/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/0100096/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://0100096/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`