# Porter's Pit

- **MSHA mine ID:** 3002409
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Construction Sand and Gravel
- **Location:** Tioga, NY
- **Operator:** Austin Sand & Gravel
- **Controller:** Michael D  Austin
- **Public source rows linked:** 519
- **Source coverage:** 12 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Michael D  Austin (0115921) → Austin Sand & Gravel (0136253) → Porter's Pit (3002409)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Ralph E  Porter → Porters' Sand & Gravel:** 1979-01-01 through 2024-07-16; derived from co-tenure at mine 3002409; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Michael D  Austin → Austin Sand & Gravel:** 2024-07-17 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3002409; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 2
- Typed edges: 6
- 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 1 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 5 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 79 violation rows across the full record; 14 carry an S&S flag and $9,840 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 31 samples:** Occupational health samples 31 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 3K employee hours and 5 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 0 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 0 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 — 6 since 2021:** Inspections 42 inspection events and 672 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 56.4201 — 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 56.12008 — Insulation and fittings for power wires and cables.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12008
- **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 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 56.15020 — Life jackets and belts.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-N/section-56.15020
- **30 CFR 56.14113 — Inclined conveyors: backstops or brakes.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14113
- **30 CFR 56.12004 — Electrical conductors.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12004
- **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 56.4501 — Fuel lines.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-C/section-56.4501
- **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 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

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 5 rows; 2003-06-21 through 2019-04-05; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2026-05-27 through 2026-05-27; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 75 rows; 2000-11-02 through 2026-05-04; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 17 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 6 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 1979-01-01 through 2024-07-17; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 42 rows; 2000-11-02 through 2026-05-04; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 211 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 49 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:** 31 rows; 2000-11-02 through 2026-05-05; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 79 rows; 2000-11-02 through 2026-05-04; 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/porter-s-pit-3002409`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/porter-s-pit-3002409`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/3002409/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/3002409/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://3002409/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`