# KIMBALLTON PLANT #1

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4400082
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Lime
- **Location:** Giles, VA
- **Operator:** Lhoist North America of Virginia, Inc.
- **Controller:** Lhoist Group
- **Public source rows linked:** 10,563
- **Source coverage:** 16 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Lhoist Group (0041044) → Lhoist North America of Virginia, Inc. (L16768) → KIMBALLTON PLANT #1 (4400082)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Lafarge S A → Gold Bond Building Products:** 1950-01-01 through 1984-02-27; derived from co-tenure at mine 4400082; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **USG Corporation → Apg Lime Corp:** 1984-02-28 through 1988-02-23; derived from co-tenure at mine 4400082; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **A P Green Industries Inc → Apg Lime Corp:** 1988-02-24 through 1998-06-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 4400082; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Global Industrial Technologies Inc → Apg Lime Corp:** 1998-07-01 through 1999-05-03; derived from co-tenure at mine 4400082; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Lhoist Group → Lhoist North America of Virginia, Inc.:** 1999-05-04 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4400082; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 5
- Typed edges: 15
- 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 — 8 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 85 historical accident/injury rows; 2 coded fatalities and 634 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 192 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 1,167 violation rows across the full record; 307 carry an S&S flag and $614,018 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 397 samples:** Occupational health samples 350 personal; 47 area. 62 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 66K employee hours and 112 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 205 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 72 contested-violation rows, 70 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 63 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 52 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 — 31 since 2021:** Inspections 212 inspection events and 15K 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.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14100
- **30 CFR 57.14112 — Construction and maintenance of guards.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-M/section-57.14112
- **30 CFR 57.12028 — Testing grounding systems.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-K/section-57.12028
- **30 CFR 57.12025 — Grounding circuit enclosures.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-K/section-57.12025
- **30 CFR 57.4201 — Inspection.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-C/section-57.4201
- **30 CFR 57.16001 — Stacking and storage of materials.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-O/section-57.16001
- **30 CFR 57.12001 — Circuit overload protection.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-K/section-57.12001
- **30 CFR 57.14100 — Safety defects; examination, correction and records.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-M/section-57.14100
- **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 56.4102 — 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

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 85 rows; 2001-02-01 through 2024-09-17; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2026-03-25 through 2026-03-25; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Metal and Nonmetal Area Samples:** 47 rows; 2008-09-03 through 2025-05-25; source ID `msha-area-samples`
- **Assessed Violations:** 1,155 rows; 2000-04-04 through 2025-12-11; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 70 rows; 2004-09-07 through 2025-07-25; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Conferences:** 63 rows; 2001-12-03 through 2025-06-23; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 72 rows; 2003-05-28 through 2024-11-26; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 6,024 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 1,198 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 5 rows; 1950-01-01 through 1999-05-04; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 212 rows; 2000-04-04 through 2026-03-23; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 33 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 80 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:** 350 rows; 2002-06-11 through 2025-12-16; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 1,167 rows; 2000-04-04 through 2025-12-11; 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/kimballton-plant-1-4400082`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/kimballton-plant-1-4400082`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4400082/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4400082/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4400082/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`