# The Bandit Pit

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4105705
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Sand, Common
- **Location:** Hidalgo, TX
- **Operator:** Hard Rock Pit
- **Controller:** Jose A Trujano; Raul  Garcia; Reynaldo S Garcia
- **Public source rows linked:** 158
- **Source coverage:** 9 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Jose A Trujano; Raul  Garcia; Reynaldo S Garcia (0180581) → Hard Rock Pit (0192133) → The Bandit Pit (4105705)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Raul  Garcia et al → Hard Rock Pit:** 2023-08-30 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4105705; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Jose A Trujano et al → Hard Rock Pit:** 2023-08-30 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4105705; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Reynaldo S Garcia et al → Hard Rock Pit:** 2023-08-30 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4105705; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 3
- Typed edges: 5
- 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 0 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 53 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 53 violation rows across the full record; 14 carry an S&S flag and $40,353 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 20K employee hours and 27 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 — 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 — 13 since 2021:** Inspections 13 inspection events and 158 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 56.14100 — Safety defects; examination, correction and records.** (4 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14100
- **30 CFR 56.12028 — Testing grounding systems.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12028
- **30 CFR 56.18002 — Examination of working places.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-Q/section-56.18002
- **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 46.3 — Training plans.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-46/section-46.3
- **30 CFR 46.5 — New miner training.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-46/section-46.5
- **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 56.9300 — Berms or guardrails.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-H/section-56.9300

## Source coverage

- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2023-11-28 through 2023-11-28; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 53 rows; 2023-08-30 through 2026-08-04; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 2023-08-30 through 2023-08-30; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 13 rows; 2023-08-30 through 2026-08-04; 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:** 8 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; 2025-07-23 through 2025-07-23; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 53 rows; 2023-08-30 through 2026-08-04; 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/the-bandit-pit-4105705`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/the-bandit-pit-4105705`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4105705/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4105705/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4105705/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`