# S & S QUARRIES

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1300053
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Crushed, Broken Limestone NEC
- **Location:** Marion, IA
- **Operator:** Bruening Rock Products Inc
- **Controller:** Greg  Bruening
- **Public source rows linked:** 229
- **Source coverage:** 12 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Greg  Bruening (M00064) → Bruening Rock Products Inc (L00023) → S & S QUARRIES (1300053)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **C D  Hess → C D Hess & Son Rock Material Company:** 1950-01-01 through 1986-06-09; derived from co-tenure at mine 1300053; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Robert J  Van Zante → Hess & Van Zante Inc:** 1986-06-10 through 1988-09-06; derived from co-tenure at mine 1300053; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Ron  Swan et al → S & S Quarries Inc:** 1988-09-07 through 1995-02-14; derived from co-tenure at mine 1300053; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Greg  Bruening → Bruening Rock Products Inc:** 1995-02-15 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1300053; 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 1 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 53 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 26 violation rows across the full record; 3 carry an S&S flag and $3,380 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 8K employee hours and 13 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 4 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 2 contested-violation rows, 2 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 0 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 0 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 — 0 since 2021:** Inspections 19 inspection events and 144 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 57.12068 — Locking transformer enclosures.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-K/section-57.12068
- **30 CFR 56.14100 — Safety defects; examination, correction and records.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14100
- **30 CFR 57.14107 — Moving machine parts.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-M/section-57.14107
- **30 CFR 57.14112 — Construction and maintenance of guards.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-M/section-57.14112
- **30 CFR 57.12028 — Testing grounding systems.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-K/section-57.12028
- **30 CFR 57.14100 — Safety defects; examination, correction and records.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-M/section-57.14100
- **30 CFR 57.12013 — Splices and repairs of power cables.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-K/section-57.12013
- **30 CFR 56.4104 — Combustible waste.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-C/section-56.4104
- **30 CFR 56.14207 — Parking procedures for unattended equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14207
- **30 CFR 56.12034 — Guarding around lights.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12034
- **30 CFR 56.11002 — Handrails and toeboards.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-J/section-56.11002

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 1 rows; 2002-06-29 through 2002-06-29; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2010-09-10 through 2010-09-10; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 26 rows; 2000-03-29 through 2010-09-01; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 2 rows; 2008-11-26 through 2008-11-26; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Contested Violations:** 2 rows; 2007-08-20 through 2007-08-20; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 4 rows; 1950-01-01 through 1995-02-15; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 19 rows; 2000-03-29 through 2010-08-31; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 120 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 22 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; 2001-05-09 through 2002-08-27; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 26 rows; 2000-03-29 through 2010-09-01; 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/s-s-quarries-1300053`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/s-s-quarries-1300053`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1300053/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1300053/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1300053/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`