# Sericite Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 3800388
- **Status:** Intermittent
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Mica
- **Location:** Cherokee, SC
- **Operator:** Taylor Clay Products, Inc.
- **Controller:** Charles D  Taylor
- **Public source rows linked:** 585
- **Source coverage:** 14 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Charles D  Taylor (M00859) → Taylor Clay Products, Inc. (L00999) → Sericite Mine (3800388)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **L G  Wilson Jr → Industrial Minerals Inc:** 1950-01-01 through 2022-08-18; derived from co-tenure at mine 3800388; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Charles D  Taylor → Taylor Clay Products, Inc.:** 2022-08-19 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3800388; 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 23 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 413 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 56 violation rows across the full record; 9 carry an S&S flag and $4,680 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 18 samples:** Occupational health samples 18 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 1 employee hours and 1 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 16 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 7 contested-violation rows, 9 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 0 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 2 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 — 7 since 2021:** Inspections 60 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 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
- **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 56.14108 — 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 56.12032 — Inspection and cover plates.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12032
- **30 CFR 56.4102 — Spillage and leakage.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-C/section-56.4102
- **30 CFR 56.12004 — Electrical conductors.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12004
- **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 56.14112 — 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 56.12018 — Identification of power switches.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12018
- **30 CFR 56.11003 — Construction and maintenance of ladders.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-J/section-56.11003

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 23 rows; 2000-02-10 through 2013-09-11; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2019-02-21 through 2019-02-21; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 56 rows; 2000-02-29 through 2017-03-01; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 9 rows; 2004-04-27 through 2012-03-20; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Contested Violations:** 7 rows; 2008-01-30 through 2010-04-15; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 93 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 24 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 1950-01-01 through 2022-08-19; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 60 rows; 2000-02-29 through 2026-02-19; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 186 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:** 18 rows; 2001-10-11 through 2009-09-24; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 56 rows; 2000-02-29 through 2017-03-01; 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/sericite-mine-3800388`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/sericite-mine-3800388`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/3800388/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/3800388/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://3800388/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`