# Caroline Plant

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4404502
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Construction Sand and Gravel
- **Location:** Caroline, VA
- **Operator:** Luck Stone Corporation
- **Controller:** Charles S  Luck IV
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,211
- **Source coverage:** 15 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Charles S  Luck IV (M01765) → Luck Stone Corporation (L06215) → Caroline Plant (4404502)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **M A  Smith Jr → Smith Sand & Gravel Inc:** 1950-01-01 through 1998-12-01; derived from co-tenure at mine 4404502; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Charles S  Luck IV  et al → Luck Stone Corporation:** 1998-12-02 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4404502; 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 48 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 3 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 48 violation rows across the full record; 10 carry an S&S flag and $7,489 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 34 samples:** Occupational health samples 34 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 6 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 12 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 5 contested-violation rows, 5 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 2 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 5 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 — 12 since 2021:** Inspections 54 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.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-D/section-50.30
- **30 CFR 56.14101 — Brakes.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14101
- **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 56.12034 — Guarding around lights.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12034
- **30 CFR 50.20 — Preparation and submission of MSHA Report Form 7000-1—Mine Accident, Injury, and Illness Report.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-C/section-50.20
- **30 CFR 56.9301 — Dump site restraints.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-H/section-56.9301
- **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
- **30 CFR 56.4101 — Warning signs.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-C/section-56.4101
- **30 CFR 56.12032 — Inspection and cover plates.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12032
- **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

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 5 rows; 2003-06-13 through 2012-02-20; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 1979-02-23 through 1979-02-23; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 48 rows; 2001-06-19 through 2025-04-16; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 5 rows; 2009-09-10 through 2013-05-30; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Conferences:** 2 rows; 2008-03-06 through 2010-11-08; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 5 rows; 2007-11-20 through 2012-11-06; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 625 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 115 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 1950-01-01 through 1998-12-02; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 54 rows; 2000-06-27 through 2026-06-22; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 212 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 54 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:** 34 rows; 2001-10-31 through 2026-06-23; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 48 rows; 2001-06-19 through 2025-04-16; 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/caroline-plant-4404502`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/caroline-plant-4404502`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4404502/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4404502/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4404502/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`