# Monarch Quarry

- **MSHA mine ID:** 0500012
- **Status:** Intermittent
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Crushed, Broken Limestone NEC
- **Location:** Chaffee, CO
- **Operator:** Colorado Lime Company
- **Controller:** United States Lime & Minerals Inc
- **Public source rows linked:** 316
- **Source coverage:** 11 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**United States Lime & Minerals Inc (M08976) → Colorado Lime Company (L17021) → Monarch Quarry (0500012)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Crane Company → C F & I Steel Corp:** 1950-01-01 through 1985-07-10; derived from co-tenure at mine 0500012; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Tusco Inc → Calco Inc:** 1985-07-11 through 1988-07-10; derived from co-tenure at mine 0500012; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Fred  Lowry → Lowry Contracting Inc:** 1988-07-11 through 1999-06-03; derived from co-tenure at mine 0500012; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **United States Lime & Minerals Inc → Colorado Lime Company:** 1999-06-04 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 0500012; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 4
- Typed edges: 12
- 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 — 5 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 37 violation rows across the full record; 12 carry an S&S flag and $4,161 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 5 samples:** Occupational health samples 5 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 0 employee hours and 0 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 0 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 0 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 0 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 — 1 since 2021:** Inspections 20 inspection events and 285 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 46.8 — Annual refresher training.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-46/section-46.8
- **30 CFR 46.9 — Records of training.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-46/section-46.9
- **30 CFR 56.14132 — Horns and backup alarms.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14132
- **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 56.9200 — Transporting persons.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-H/section-56.9200
- **30 CFR 46.3 — Training plans.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-46/section-46.3
- **30 CFR 46.6 — Newly hired experienced miner training.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-46/section-46.6
- **30 CFR 46.12 — Responsibility for independent contractor training.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-46/section-46.12
- **30 CFR 56.12008 — Insulation and fittings for power wires and cables.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12008

## Source coverage

- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2026-07-08 through 2026-07-08; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 37 rows; 2000-10-18 through 2026-08-17; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 96 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 20 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 4 rows; 1950-01-01 through 1999-06-04; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 20 rows; 2000-10-18 through 2026-08-11; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 79 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 16 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:** 5 rows; 2006-05-17 through 2011-03-31; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 37 rows; 2000-10-18 through 2026-08-17; 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/monarch-quarry-0500012`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/monarch-quarry-0500012`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/0500012/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/0500012/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://0500012/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`