# Academy Black

- **MSHA mine ID:** 0400231
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Dimension Stone NEC
- **Location:** Fresno, CA
- **Operator:** Cold Spring Granite Company
- **Controller:** Patrick  Alexander; Michael  O'Connor
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,128
- **Source coverage:** 15 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Patrick  Alexander; Michael  O'Connor (0184723) → Cold Spring Granite Company (L00067) → Academy Black (0400231)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Patrick  Alexander → Cold Spring Granite Company:** 1950-01-01 through 2024-05-20; derived from co-tenure at mine 0400231; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Michael  O'Connor → Cold Spring Granite Company:** 2024-05-21 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 0400231; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Patrick  Alexander → Cold Spring Granite Company:** 2024-05-21 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 0400231; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 3
- Typed edges: 6
- 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 — 7 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 12 historical accident/injury rows; 1 coded fatalities and 344 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 33 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 90 violation rows across the full record; 15 carry an S&S flag and $104,537 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 21 samples:** Occupational health samples 21 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 3K employee hours and 6 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 6 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 2 contested-violation rows, 2 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 2 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 — 22 since 2021:** Inspections 67 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 56.18002 — Examination of working places.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-Q/section-56.18002
- **30 CFR 56.23002 — Written safety program.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-T/section-56.23002
- **30 CFR 56.9101 — Operating speeds and control of equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-H/section-56.9101
- **30 CFR 62.174 — Follow-up corrective measures when a standard threshold shift is detected.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-M/part-62/section-62.174
- **30 CFR 46.6 — Newly hired experienced miner training.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-46/section-46.6
- **30 CFR 46.3 — Training plans.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-46/section-46.3
- **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 46.9 — Records of training.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-46/section-46.9
- **30 CFR 56.9100 — Traffic control.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-H/section-56.9100

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 12 rows; 2002-05-29 through 2026-01-07; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 1972-07-23 through 1972-07-23; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 88 rows; 2001-03-20 through 2026-04-28; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 2 rows; 2017-01-25 through 2025-06-02; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Conferences:** 2 rows; 2002-05-08 through 2006-11-28; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 2 rows; 2016-06-23 through 2024-12-12; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 477 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 99 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 1950-01-01 through 1950-01-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 67 rows; 2000-06-21 through 2026-06-15; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 210 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 53 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:** 21 rows; 2001-03-21 through 2022-09-21; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 90 rows; 2001-03-20 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/academy-black-0400231`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/academy-black-0400231`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/0400231/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/0400231/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://0400231/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`