# Area Pit

- **MSHA mine ID:** 0103557
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Clay, Ceramic, Refractory Mnls.
- **Location:** Montgomery, AL
- **Operator:** Little River Materials
- **Controller:** Baylis  Carnes; Lemuel  Carnes
- **Public source rows linked:** 32
- **Source coverage:** 10 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Baylis  Carnes; Lemuel  Carnes (0167181) → Little River Materials (0181113) → Area Pit (0103557)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Baylis  Carnes et al → Little River Materials:** 2022-02-18 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 0103557; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Lemuel  Carnes et al → Little River Materials:** 2022-02-18 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 0103557; 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 — 1 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 1 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 355 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 2 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 2 violation rows across the full record; 1 carry an S&S flag and $519 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 3 samples:** Occupational health samples 3 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 — 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 — 4 since 2021:** Inspections 4 inspection events and 38 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 56.9300 — Berms or guardrails.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-H/section-56.9300
- **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

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 1 rows; 2024-01-25 through 2024-01-25; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2024-04-17 through 2024-04-17; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 2 rows; 2023-11-29 through 2023-11-29; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 2022-02-18 through 2022-02-18; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 4 rows; 2022-09-12 through 2023-11-29; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 12 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:** 3 rows; 2022-09-13 through 2022-09-13; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 2 rows; 2023-11-29 through 2023-11-29; 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/area-pit-0103557`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/area-pit-0103557`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/0103557/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/0103557/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://0103557/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`