# Alsea Quarries

- **MSHA mine ID:** 3500454
- **Status:** Intermittent
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Crushed, Broken Traprock
- **Location:** Benton, OR
- **Operator:** Alsea Quarries 1 LLC
- **Controller:** George R  Foster; Tracy L  Foster
- **Public source rows linked:** 558
- **Source coverage:** 12 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**George R  Foster; Tracy L  Foster (0092477) → Alsea Quarries 1 LLC (0109346) → Alsea Quarries (3500454)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Norman  Sapp  et al → Alsea Lumber Company:** 1950-01-01 through 1979-07-15; derived from co-tenure at mine 3500454; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Hobin Leslie R → Philomath Construction Inc:** 1979-07-16 through 1981-10-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 3500454; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Ray  Perin → Alsea Quarries:** 1981-11-01 through 1997-11-18; derived from co-tenure at mine 3500454; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Lloyd S  Hockema → Lloyd S Hockema Inc:** 1997-11-19 through 2000-09-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 3500454; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Ray  Perin → Alsea Quarries:** 2000-10-01 through 2010-04-08; derived from co-tenure at mine 3500454; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Tracy L  Foster et al → Alsea Quarries 1 LLC:** 2010-04-09 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3500454; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **George R  Foster et al → Alsea Quarries 1 LLC:** 2010-04-09 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3500454; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 7
- Typed edges: 18
- 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 — 18 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 97 violation rows across the full record; 22 carry an S&S flag and $11,713 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 4 samples:** Occupational health samples 4 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 480 employee hours and 1 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 55 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 23 contested-violation rows, 26 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 6 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 — 6 since 2021:** Inspections 50 inspection events and 591 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 56.14132 — Horns and backup alarms.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14132
- **30 CFR 56.14105 — Procedures during repairs or maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14105
- **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 56.11001 — Safe access.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-J/section-56.11001
- **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 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 50.30 — Preparation and submission of MSHA Form 7000-2—Quarterly Employment and Coal Production Report.** (4 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-D/section-50.30

## Source coverage

- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2021-09-08 through 2021-09-08; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 96 rows; 2000-02-07 through 2025-10-06; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 26 rows; 2003-12-23 through 2013-03-04; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Conferences:** 6 rows; 2004-02-27 through 2008-02-26; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 23 rows; 2004-02-10 through 2012-03-06; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 7 rows; 1950-01-01 through 2010-04-09; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 50 rows; 2000-02-07 through 2025-10-06; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 196 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 51 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:** 4 rows; 2004-02-11 through 2021-09-10; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 97 rows; 2000-02-07 through 2025-10-06; 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/alsea-quarries-3500454`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/alsea-quarries-3500454`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/3500454/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/3500454/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://3500454/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`