# Columbia Plant #1

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1100038
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Crushed, Broken Limestone NEC
- **Location:** St Clair, IL
- **Operator:** Columbia Quarry Company LLC
- **Controller:** Frank J  Beelman III
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,213
- **Source coverage:** 16 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Frank J  Beelman III (0093253) → Columbia Quarry Company LLC (0110265) → Columbia Plant #1 (1100038)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Clyde D  Trexler → Columbia Quarry Company:** 1950-01-01 through 2010-05-07; derived from co-tenure at mine 1100038; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Frank J  Beelman III → Columbia Quarry Company LLC:** 2010-05-08 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1100038; 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: 2026-10-17T05:35:58.500035+00:00.

## Assessment signals

1. **SAFETY — 2 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 21 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 125 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 15 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 116 violation rows across the full record; 18 carry an S&S flag and $15,321 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 41 samples:** Occupational health samples 39 personal; 2 area. 4 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 16K employee hours and 34 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 8 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 1 contested-violation rows, 2 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 5 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 3 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 48 inspection events and 997 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 56.12004 — Electrical conductors.** (4 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12004
- **30 CFR 56.14100 — Safety defects; examination, correction and records.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14100
- **30 CFR 47.44 — Temporary, portable containers.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-47/subpart-E/section-47.44
- **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 56.12028 — 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 56.20003 — Housekeeping.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-S/section-56.20003
- **30 CFR 56.15001 — First-aid materials.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-N/section-56.15001

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 21 rows; 2000-02-09 through 2026-08-27; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2022-06-22 through 2022-06-22; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Metal and Nonmetal Area Samples:** 2 rows; 2022-06-28 through 2022-06-28; source ID `msha-area-samples`
- **Assessed Violations:** 116 rows; 2001-06-19 through 2026-03-12; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 2 rows; 2001-03-09 through 2023-05-12; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Conferences:** 5 rows; 2008-06-11 through 2008-06-11; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 1 rows; 2022-06-28 through 2022-06-28; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 646 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 132 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 1950-01-01 through 2010-05-08; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 48 rows; 2000-01-12 through 2026-06-30; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 36 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 45 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:** 39 rows; 2002-01-30 through 2025-09-30; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 116 rows; 2001-06-19 through 2026-03-12; 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/columbia-plant-1-1100038`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/columbia-plant-1-1100038`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1100038/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1100038/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1100038/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`