# Caribbean Blue Stone

- **MSHA mine ID:** 5500013
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Crushed, Broken Stone NEC
- **Location:** St Croix, VI
- **Operator:** Far South Mining LLC
- **Controller:** Zachary  Tausch; Vernon  Tausch
- **Public source rows linked:** 826
- **Source coverage:** 13 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Zachary  Tausch; Vernon  Tausch (0064871) → Far South Mining LLC (0119828) → Caribbean Blue Stone (5500013)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Carlton L  Stevens → V I Quarry Inc:** 2000-06-01 through 2004-01-25; derived from co-tenure at mine 5500013; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Ann E  Abramson → Aggregate Inc:** 2004-01-26 through 2019-11-21; derived from co-tenure at mine 5500013; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Zachary  Tausch  et al → Far South Mining LLC:** 2019-11-22 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 5500013; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Vernon  Tausch  et al → Far South Mining LLC:** 2019-11-22 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 5500013; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 4
- Typed edges: 10
- 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 — 9 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 194 violation rows across the full record; 84 carry an S&S flag and $114,623 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 21 samples:** Occupational health samples 21 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 5 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 30 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 8 contested-violation rows, 22 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 0 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 1 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 — 25 since 2021:** Inspections 118 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 56.23002 — Written safety program.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-T/section-56.23002
- **30 CFR 56.14100 — Safety defects; examination, correction and records.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14100
- **30 CFR 56.13015 — Inspection of compressed-air receivers and other unfired pressure vessels.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-L/section-56.13015
- **30 CFR 56.4200 — General requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-C/section-56.4200
- **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 56.3131 — Pit or quarry wall perimeter.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-B/section-56.3131
- **30 CFR 56.14101 — Brakes.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14101
- **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 56.14112 — Construction and maintenance of guards.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14112

## Source coverage

- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2020-06-16 through 2020-06-16; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 178 rows; 2000-06-12 through 2025-05-12; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 22 rows; 2002-04-22 through 2026-04-21; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Contested Violations:** 8 rows; 2002-08-08 through 2025-05-12; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 58 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 15 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 4 rows; 2000-06-01 through 2019-11-22; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 118 rows; 2000-06-12 through 2026-08-10; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 164 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 42 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:** 21 rows; 2001-10-23 through 2026-08-11; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 194 rows; 2000-06-12 through 2025-05-12; 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/caribbean-blue-stone-5500013`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/caribbean-blue-stone-5500013`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/5500013/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/5500013/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://5500013/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`