# South Onondaga Pit

- **MSHA mine ID:** 3000989
- **Status:** Intermittent
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Construction Sand and Gravel
- **Location:** Onondaga, NY
- **Operator:** Heidelberg Materials Northeast LLC
- **Controller:** Heidelberg Materials AG
- **Public source rows linked:** 342
- **Source coverage:** 15 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Heidelberg Materials AG (M00004) → Heidelberg Materials Northeast LLC (L16322) → South Onondaga Pit (3000989)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Michael T  Saunders → W F Saunders & Sons Inc:** 1950-01-01 through 2014-01-28; derived from co-tenure at mine 3000989; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Tracy  Saunders → W F Saunders & Sons Inc:** 2014-01-29 through 2017-08-27; derived from co-tenure at mine 3000989; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Heidelberg Materials AG → Heidelberg Materials Northeast-NY LLC:** 2017-08-28 through 2025-12-02; derived from co-tenure at mine 3000989; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Hanson PLC → Heidelberg Materials Northeast-NY LLC:** 2017-08-28 through 2007-08-22; derived from co-tenure at mine 3000989; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Heidelberg Materials AG → Heidelberg Materials Northeast LLC:** 2025-12-03 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3000989; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Hanson PLC → Heidelberg Materials Northeast LLC:** 2025-12-03 through 2007-08-22; derived from co-tenure at mine 3000989; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 6
- Typed edges: 13
- Interval anomalies: 2
- 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 5 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 28 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 5 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 70 violation rows across the full record; 13 carry an S&S flag and $7,451 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 35 samples:** Occupational health samples 35 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 6K employee hours and 10 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 3 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 1 contested-violation rows, 1 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 1 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 — 8 since 2021:** Inspections 44 inspection events and 587 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 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 56.12004 — Electrical conductors.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12004
- **30 CFR 56.18010 — First aid.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-Q/section-56.18010
- **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 56.11001 — Safe access.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-J/section-56.11001
- **30 CFR 56.14108 — Overhead drive belts.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14108
- **30 CFR 47.44 — Temporary, portable containers.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-47/subpart-E/section-47.44
- **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 56.20003 — Housekeeping.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-S/section-56.20003
- **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

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 5 rows; 2002-12-18 through 2018-05-02; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2016-09-13 through 2016-09-13; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 69 rows; 2000-12-05 through 2023-11-27; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 1 rows; 2010-07-19 through 2010-07-19; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Conferences:** 1 rows; 2020-07-02 through 2020-07-02; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 1 rows; 2009-08-28 through 2009-08-28; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 32 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 8 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 6 rows; 1950-01-01 through 2025-12-03; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 44 rows; 2000-12-05 through 2026-08-27; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 24 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:** 35 rows; 2000-12-06 through 2021-05-12; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 70 rows; 2000-12-05 through 2026-08-27; 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/south-onondaga-pit-3000989`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/south-onondaga-pit-3000989`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/3000989/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/3000989/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://3000989/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`