# Boyd

- **MSHA mine ID:** 0900057
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Dimension Stone NEC
- **Location:** Elbert, GA
- **Operator:** Savannah Valley Quarries, LLC
- **Controller:** Echols Mill Quarries LLC; Allgood Granite Products LLC; Bear Creek Minin
- **Public source rows linked:** 599
- **Source coverage:** 12 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Echols Mill Quarries LLC; Allgood Granite Products LLC; Bear Creek Minin (0167501) → Savannah Valley Quarries, LLC (0181393) → Boyd (0900057)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **James R  Boyd  et al → Boyd Granite Company Inc:** 1977-09-01 through 2020-11-24; derived from co-tenure at mine 0900057; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Randy K  Smith  et al → Echols Mill Quarries LLC:** 2020-11-25 through 2022-01-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 0900057; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **David W  Dye  et al → Echols Mill Quarries LLC:** 2020-11-25 through 2022-01-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 0900057; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Allgood Granite Products LLC et al → Savannah Valley Quarries, LLC:** 2022-02-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 0900057; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Bear Creek Mining LLC et al → Savannah Valley Quarries, LLC:** 2022-02-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 0900057; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Echols Mill Quarries LLC et al → Savannah Valley Quarries, LLC:** 2022-02-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 0900057; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 6
- Typed edges: 12
- 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 — 2 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 6 historical accident/injury rows; 1 coded fatalities and 317 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 24 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 95 violation rows across the full record; 33 carry an S&S flag and $144,046 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 2 samples:** Occupational health samples 2 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 0 employee hours and 0 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 62 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 31 contested-violation rows, 31 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 — 8 since 2021:** Inspections 58 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 56.13015 — Inspection of compressed-air receivers and other unfired pressure vessels.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-L/section-56.13015
- **30 CFR 50.30 — Preparation and submission of MSHA Form 7000-2—Quarterly Employment and Coal Production Report.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-D/section-50.30
- **30 CFR 56.12023 — Guarding electrical connections and resistor grids.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12023
- **30 CFR 56.12030 — Correction of dangerous conditions.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12030
- **30 CFR 56.14132 — Horns and backup alarms.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14132
- **30 CFR 56.13011 — Air receiver tanks.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-L/section-56.13011
- **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 50.10 — Immediate notification.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-B/section-50.10
- **30 CFR 46.7 — New task training.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-46/section-46.7
- **30 CFR 56.3401 — Examination of ground conditions.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-B/section-56.3401
- **30 CFR 56.15005 — Safety belts and lines.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-N/section-56.15005
- **30 CFR 56.11027 — Scaffolds and working platforms.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-J/section-56.11027

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 6 rows; 2001-01-25 through 2021-10-16; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2026-04-01 through 2026-04-01; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 90 rows; 2001-04-04 through 2023-03-29; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 31 rows; 2006-02-17 through 2023-03-07; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Contested Violations:** 31 rows; 2005-07-20 through 2022-03-29; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 6 rows; 1977-09-01 through 2022-02-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 58 rows; 2000-06-19 through 2026-03-24; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 234 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 44 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:** 2 rows; 2002-07-10 through 2009-10-20; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 95 rows; 2001-04-04 through 2023-03-29; 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/boyd-0900057`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/boyd-0900057`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/0900057/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/0900057/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://0900057/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`