# Fountain Stone Company LLC

- **MSHA mine ID:** 0900587
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Dimension Slate
- **Location:** Pickens, GA
- **Operator:** Fountain Stone Company LLC
- **Controller:** Lynn  Fountain
- **Public source rows linked:** 138
- **Source coverage:** 11 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Lynn  Fountain (0142701) → Fountain Stone Company LLC (L16247) → Fountain Stone Company LLC (0900587)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Hallman  Buchanan → Buchanan Flagstone Quarry:** 1950-01-01 through 1979-08-20; derived from co-tenure at mine 0900587; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Wayne  Anderson → Wayne Anderson Contracting:** 1979-08-21 through 1986-02-24; derived from co-tenure at mine 0900587; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Douglas W  Wilkins → Wilkins Stone Quarries:** 1986-02-25 through 1994-04-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 0900587; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Casey  Poole → Poole Building Stone:** 1994-05-01 through 1998-07-22; derived from co-tenure at mine 0900587; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Eddie  Fountain → Fountain Stone Company LLC:** 1998-07-23 through 2018-04-19; derived from co-tenure at mine 0900587; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Lynn  Fountain → Fountain Stone Company LLC:** 2018-04-20 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 0900587; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 6
- Typed edges: 17
- 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: 2026-10-17T05:35:58.500035+00:00.

## Assessment signals

1. **SAFETY — 0 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 0 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 23 violation rows across the full record; 6 carry an S&S flag and $4,334 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 8 samples:** Occupational health samples 8 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 80 employee hours and 2 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 — 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 40 inspection events and 389 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 56.4101 — Warning signs.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-C/section-56.4101
- **30 CFR 56.14132 — Horns and backup alarms.** (2 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.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14100
- **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 56.13021 — High-pressure hose connections.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-L/section-56.13021
- **30 CFR 56.12001 — Circuit overload protection.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12001
- **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 56.18002 — 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 56.20008 — Toilet facilities.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-S/section-56.20008

## Source coverage

- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2018-09-04 through 2018-09-04; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 22 rows; 2002-04-03 through 2017-01-03; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 3 rows; 2009-02-19 through 2011-01-28; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Contested Violations:** 3 rows; 2007-06-14 through 2007-07-06; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 6 rows; 1950-01-01 through 1998-07-23; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 40 rows; 2000-02-23 through 2018-08-06; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 12 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 19 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; 2002-04-03 through 2018-08-07; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 23 rows; 2002-04-03 through 2017-01-03; 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/fountain-stone-company-llc-0900587`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/fountain-stone-company-llc-0900587`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/0900587/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/0900587/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://0900587/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`