# Little Piney Pit

- **MSHA mine ID:** 0300138
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Common Clays NEC
- **Location:** Johnson, AR
- **Operator:** Acme Brick Company
- **Controller:** Berkshire Hathaway Inc
- **Public source rows linked:** 174
- **Source coverage:** 11 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Berkshire Hathaway Inc (M13643) → Acme Brick Company (L17877) → Little Piney Pit (0300138)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Earle K  Johnson → Eureka Brick & Tile Company:** 1950-01-01 through 1999-06-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 0300138; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Justin Industries Inc → Acme Brick Company:** 1999-07-01 through 2000-07-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 0300138; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Berkshire Hathaway Inc → Acme Brick Company:** 2000-08-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 0300138; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 3
- 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 — 0 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 1 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 11 violation rows across the full record; 2 carry an S&S flag and $762 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 876 employee hours and 4 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 3 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 0 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 3 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 20 inspection events and 238 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 56.14207 — Parking procedures for unattended equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14207
- **30 CFR 56.14132 — Horns and backup alarms.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14132
- **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 56.15020 — Life jackets and belts.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-N/section-56.15020
- **30 CFR 56.14101 — Brakes.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14101
- **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 56.20008 — Toilet facilities.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-S/section-56.20008
- **30 CFR 56.15001 — First-aid materials.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-N/section-56.15001

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 1 rows; 2008-03-10 through 2008-03-10; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2009-03-26 through 2009-03-26; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 11 rows; 2000-04-19 through 2006-10-19; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Conferences:** 3 rows; 2000-05-10 through 2000-05-10; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 1950-01-01 through 2000-08-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 20 rows; 2000-04-19 through 2009-02-17; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 99 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 20 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; 2006-04-05 through 2006-04-05; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 11 rows; 2000-04-19 through 2006-10-19; 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/little-piney-pit-0300138`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/little-piney-pit-0300138`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/0300138/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/0300138/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://0300138/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`