# Willow Springs Quarry

- **MSHA mine ID:** 2302064
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Crushed, Broken Limestone NEC
- **Location:** Howell, MO
- **Operator:** Indian Creek Materials LLC
- **Controller:** Lionmark Construction Companies LLC
- **Public source rows linked:** 553
- **Source coverage:** 15 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Lionmark Construction Companies LLC (0146301) → Indian Creek Materials LLC (0162173) → Willow Springs Quarry (2302064)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Gary H  Gabel → Gabel Stone Company:** 1992-07-01 through 2019-02-18; derived from co-tenure at mine 2302064; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Lionmark Construction Companies LLC → Indian Creek Materials LLC:** 2019-02-19 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 2302064; 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 — 0 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 2 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 13 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 47 violation rows across the full record; 4 carry an S&S flag and $4,765 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 27 samples:** Occupational health samples 27 personal. 2 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 9 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 41 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 15 contested-violation rows, 20 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 6 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 2 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 — 14 since 2021:** Inspections 71 inspection events and 878 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.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12004
- **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 56.12013 — Splices and repairs of power cables.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12013
- **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 56.20011 — Barricades and warning signs.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-S/section-56.20011
- **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 56.18002 — Examination of working places.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-Q/section-56.18002
- **30 CFR 56.3200 — Correction of hazardous conditions.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-B/section-56.3200
- **30 CFR 56.4230 — Self-propelled equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-C/section-56.4230
- **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 56.14107 — Moving machine parts.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14107

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 2 rows; 2008-04-25 through 2019-08-19; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2019-10-10 through 2019-10-10; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 47 rows; 2001-02-08 through 2026-03-05; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 20 rows; 2002-06-14 through 2017-01-12; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Conferences:** 6 rows; 2001-04-09 through 2015-08-06; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 15 rows; 2006-03-22 through 2015-06-16; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 194 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 42 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 1992-07-01 through 2019-02-19; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 71 rows; 2001-03-28 through 2026-04-01; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 24 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 54 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:** 27 rows; 2004-08-10 through 2026-04-01; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 47 rows; 2001-02-08 through 2026-03-05; 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/willow-springs-quarry-2302064`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/willow-springs-quarry-2302064`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/2302064/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/2302064/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://2302064/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`