# Carson-VA Sand & Gravel

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4406728
- **Status:** Intermittent
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Construction Sand and Gravel
- **Location:** Sussex, VA
- **Operator:** Sustainable Land Use, LLC
- **Controller:** Chaney Enterprises LP
- **Public source rows linked:** 721
- **Source coverage:** 15 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Chaney Enterprises LP (M02229) → Sustainable Land Use, LLC (0194213) → Carson-VA Sand & Gravel (4406728)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **R T  Elder → R T Elder Sand & Gravel Inc:** 1993-01-01 through 1999-10-15; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406728; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Robert Brett House → West Sand & Gravel Company Inc:** 1999-10-16 through 2002-07-14; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406728; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Robert Brett House → Brett Aggregates, Inc.:** 2002-07-15 through 2011-01-09; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406728; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Dean  Ives → Dominion Aggregates:** 2011-01-10 through 2011-08-23; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406728; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Michael A  Lamb → Stony Creek Sand and Gravel LLC:** 2011-08-24 through 2021-10-04; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406728; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Chaney Enterprises LP → Chaney Enterprises LTD Partnership:** 2021-10-05 through 2024-03-24; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406728; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Chaney Enterprises LP → Sustainable Land Use, LLC:** 2024-03-25 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406728; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 7
- Typed edges: 21
- 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 — 1 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 2 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 7 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 13 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 45 violation rows across the full record; 2 carry an S&S flag and $6,011 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 29 samples:** Occupational health samples 29 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 5K employee hours and 10 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 8 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 3 contested-violation rows, 3 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 — 9 since 2021:** Inspections 43 inspection events and 742 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 56.14132 — Horns and backup alarms.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14132
- **30 CFR 50.30 — Preparation and submission of MSHA Form 7000-2—Quarterly Employment and Coal Production Report.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-D/section-50.30
- **30 CFR 56.1000 — Notification of commencement of operations and closing of mines.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-A/section-56.1000
- **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 56.4200 — General requirements.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-C/section-56.4200
- **30 CFR 56.4603 — Closure of valves.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-C/section-56.4603
- **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 41.11 — Notification by operator.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-G/part-41/subpart-B/section-41.11

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 2 rows; 2004-01-17 through 2024-01-26; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2024-02-29 through 2024-02-29; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 45 rows; 2000-06-07 through 2025-04-09; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 3 rows; 2019-02-13 through 2019-02-13; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Conferences:** 2 rows; 2018-11-07 through 2022-02-02; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 3 rows; 2018-10-11 through 2018-10-11; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 284 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 75 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 7 rows; 1993-01-01 through 2024-03-25; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 43 rows; 2000-02-01 through 2026-01-12; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 146 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 35 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:** 29 rows; 2002-05-15 through 2026-01-14; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 45 rows; 2000-06-07 through 2025-04-09; 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/carson-va-sand-gravel-4406728`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/carson-va-sand-gravel-4406728`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4406728/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4406728/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4406728/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`