# Scherr Quarry

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4601564
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Crushed, Broken Limestone NEC
- **Location:** Grant, WV
- **Operator:** Fairfax Materials Inc
- **Controller:** Aggregate Management, Inc
- **Public source rows linked:** 2,080
- **Source coverage:** 14 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Aggregate Management, Inc (M10193) → Fairfax Materials Inc (L17139) → Scherr Quarry (4601564)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Gay C  Roth → Fairfax Sand & Crushed Stone Company:** 1950-01-01 through 1989-05-03; derived from co-tenure at mine 4601564; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Aggregate Management, Inc → Fairfax Materials Inc:** 1989-05-04 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4601564; 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 — 6 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 19 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 391 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 41 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 137 violation rows across the full record; 23 carry an S&S flag and $22,645 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 64 samples:** Occupational health samples 64 personal. 1 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 14K employee hours and 22 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 26 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 13 contested-violation rows, 13 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 0 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 8 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 — 19 since 2021:** Inspections 63 inspection events and 2K 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.** (5 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14100
- **30 CFR 56.15005 — Safety belts and lines.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-N/section-56.15005
- **30 CFR 56.14101 — Brakes.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14101
- **30 CFR 56.14131 — Seat belts for haulage trucks.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14131
- **30 CFR 56.9101 — Operating speeds and control of equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-H/section-56.9101
- **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

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 19 rows; 2000-03-21 through 2026-02-18; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2019-01-31 through 2019-01-31; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 133 rows; 2000-07-18 through 2025-10-22; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 13 rows; 2012-12-05 through 2017-12-15; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Contested Violations:** 13 rows; 2012-05-08 through 2017-06-28; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 1,024 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 211 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 1950-01-01 through 1989-05-04; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 63 rows; 2000-07-18 through 2026-09-30; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 318 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 81 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:** 64 rows; 2001-04-04 through 2026-04-27; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 137 rows; 2000-07-18 through 2025-10-22; 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/scherr-quarry-4601564`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/scherr-quarry-4601564`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4601564/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4601564/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4601564/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`