# Lemon Cove Plant

- **MSHA mine ID:** 0401896
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Construction Sand and Gravel
- **Location:** Tulare, CA
- **Operator:** CEMEX Construction Materials Pacific, LLC
- **Controller:** Cemex S A
- **Public source rows linked:** 809
- **Source coverage:** 15 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Cemex S A (M09149) → CEMEX Construction Materials Pacific, LLC (0103149) → Lemon Cove Plant (0401896)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Lone Star Industries Inc → Lone Star Industries Inc:** 1950-01-01 through 1987-12-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 0401896; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **RMC Group PLC → CEMEX:** 1988-01-01 through 2005-02-28; derived from co-tenure at mine 0401896; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Cemex S A → CEMEX:** 2005-03-01 through 2006-11-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 0401896; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Cemex S A → Cemex Construction Materials LP:** 2006-12-01 through 2012-04-19; derived from co-tenure at mine 0401896; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Cemex S A → CEMEX Construction Materials Pacific, LLC:** 2012-04-20 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 0401896; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 5
- Typed edges: 14
- 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 5 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 57 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 134 violation rows across the full record; 34 carry an S&S flag and $43,677 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 8 samples:** Occupational health samples 8 personal. 1 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 1K employee hours and 3 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 19 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 7 contested-violation rows, 7 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 5 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 5 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 47 inspection events and 996 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 56.1000 — Notification of commencement of operations and closing of mines.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-A/section-56.1000
- **30 CFR 56.4201 — Inspection.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-C/section-56.4201
- **30 CFR 56.12019 — Access to stationary electrical equipment or switchgear.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12019
- **30 CFR 56.12032 — Inspection and cover plates.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12032
- **30 CFR 56.18002 — Examination of working places.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-Q/section-56.18002
- **30 CFR 56.12028 — Testing grounding systems.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12028
- **30 CFR 56.9304 — Unstable ground.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-H/section-56.9304
- **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 47.41 — Requirement for container labels.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-47/subpart-E/section-47.41
- **30 CFR 56.12016 — Work on electrically-powered equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12016
- **30 CFR 50.20 — Preparation and submission of MSHA Report Form 7000-1—Mine Accident, Injury, and Illness Report.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-C/section-50.20

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 5 rows; 2005-11-30 through 2013-01-24; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2018-06-01 through 2018-06-01; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 131 rows; 2001-02-13 through 2019-05-20; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 7 rows; 2012-02-23 through 2014-10-08; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Conferences:** 5 rows; 2004-01-15 through 2013-02-25; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 7 rows; 2010-07-13 through 2013-05-13; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 235 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 43 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 5 rows; 1950-01-01 through 2012-04-20; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 47 rows; 2001-02-13 through 2019-05-20; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 144 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 36 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:** 8 rows; 2002-06-05 through 2010-01-07; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 134 rows; 2001-02-13 through 2019-05-20; 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/lemon-cove-plant-0401896`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/lemon-cove-plant-0401896`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/0401896/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/0401896/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://0401896/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`