# Alabaster Plant

- **MSHA mine ID:** 0101264
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Facility / Lime
- **Location:** Shelby, AL
- **Operator:** Lhoist North America of Alabama, LLC
- **Controller:** Lhoist Group
- **Public source rows linked:** 2,438
- **Source coverage:** 15 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Lhoist Group (0041044) → Lhoist North America of Alabama, LLC (L13586) → Alabaster Plant (0101264)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **M A  Rikard → Allied Products Company:** 1950-01-01 through 1989-07-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 0101264; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Chemical Lime Company → Lhoist North America of Alabama, LLC:** 1989-07-31 through 1998-12-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 0101264; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Lhoist Group → Lhoist North America of Alabama, LLC:** 1998-12-31 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 0101264; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 3
- Typed edges: 8
- 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 22 historical accident/injury rows; 1 coded fatalities and 848 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 3 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 192 violation rows across the full record; 42 carry an S&S flag and $99,154 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 16 samples:** Occupational health samples 16 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 346 employee hours and 1 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 30 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 11 contested-violation rows, 11 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 8 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 16 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 — 5 since 2021:** Inspections 75 inspection events and 1K 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 56.20011 — Barricades and warning signs.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-S/section-56.20011
- **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 56.14112 — Construction and maintenance of guards.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14112
- **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 56.14107 — 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 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 56.14201 — Conveyor start-up warnings.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14201
- **30 CFR 56.12004 — Electrical conductors.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12004
- **30 CFR 56.14109 — Unguarded conveyors with adjacent travelways.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14109
- **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 56.13021 — High-pressure hose connections.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-L/section-56.13021

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 22 rows; 2000-04-03 through 2019-06-23; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2024-03-26 through 2024-03-26; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 189 rows; 2000-01-26 through 2022-02-02; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 11 rows; 2004-10-20 through 2019-04-10; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Conferences:** 8 rows; 2006-12-14 through 2021-01-26; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 11 rows; 2006-01-24 through 2018-09-04; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 1,466 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 320 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 1950-01-01 through 1989-07-31; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 75 rows; 2000-01-24 through 2024-03-19; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 97 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 26 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:** 16 rows; 2003-09-17 through 2022-02-03; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 192 rows; 2000-01-26 through 2022-02-02; 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/alabaster-plant-0101264`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/alabaster-plant-0101264`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/0101264/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/0101264/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://0101264/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`