# Tate Quarry

- **MSHA mine ID:** 0900029
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Dimension Marble
- **Location:** Pickens, GA
- **Operator:** Georgia Stone Quarries Inc.
- **Controller:** Polycor Inc
- **Public source rows linked:** 714
- **Source coverage:** 14 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Polycor Inc (M12431) → Georgia Stone Quarries Inc. (0051842) → Tate Quarry (0900029)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Jim Walter Corp → Georgia Marble Company:** 1950-01-01 through 1989-05-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 0900029; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Imerys S A → Georgia Marble Company:** 1989-05-31 through 2003-08-04; derived from co-tenure at mine 0900029; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Polycor Inc → Georgia Stone Quarries Inc.:** 2003-08-05 through 2023-08-09; derived from co-tenure at mine 0900029; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **TorQuest Partners Inc → Georgia Stone Quarries Inc.:** 2023-08-10 through 2023-08-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 0900029; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Polycor Inc → Georgia Stone Quarries Inc.:** 2023-09-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 0900029; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 5
- Typed edges: 13
- 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 — 3 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 27 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 340 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 12 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 144 violation rows across the full record; 31 carry an S&S flag and $25,283 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 26 samples:** Occupational health samples 26 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 10K employee hours and 23 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 6 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 3 contested-violation rows, 3 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 0 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 1 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 — 14 since 2021:** Inspections 79 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 56.14100 — Safety defects; examination, correction and records.** (4 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14100
- **30 CFR 56.12068 — Locking transformer enclosures.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12068
- **30 CFR 56.14101 — Brakes.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14101
- **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 41.12 — Changes; notification by operator.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-G/part-41/subpart-B/section-41.12
- **30 CFR 56.14112 — Construction and maintenance of guards.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14112
- **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 50.30 — Preparation and submission of MSHA Form 7000-2—Quarterly Employment and Coal Production Report.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-D/section-50.30

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 27 rows; 2000-03-29 through 2024-04-15; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 1976-07-04 through 1976-07-04; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 141 rows; 2000-04-11 through 2025-08-13; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 3 rows; 2008-06-18 through 2009-01-22; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Contested Violations:** 3 rows; 2007-06-28 through 2007-07-02; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 22 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 11 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 5 rows; 1950-01-01 through 2003-08-05; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 79 rows; 2000-04-11 through 2026-07-20; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 200 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 51 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:** 26 rows; 2001-08-30 through 2026-02-18; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 144 rows; 2000-04-11 through 2025-08-28; 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/tate-quarry-0900029`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/tate-quarry-0900029`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/0900029/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/0900029/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://0900029/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`