# Rickard Rock Quarry

- **MSHA mine ID:** 3503655
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Crushed, Broken Stone NEC
- **Location:** Multnomah, OR
- **Operator:** Farwest Portable Crushing Inc
- **Controller:** Donn (Ted) Theodore  Salka
- **Public source rows linked:** 261
- **Source coverage:** 13 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Donn (Ted) Theodore  Salka (0064449) → Farwest Portable Crushing Inc (0076743) → Rickard Rock Quarry (3503655)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Donn (Ted) Theodore  Salka → Farwest Portable Crushing Inc:** 2006-11-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3503655; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 1
- Typed edges: 3
- 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 — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 77 violation rows across the full record; 24 carry an S&S flag and $29,195 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 6 samples:** Occupational health samples 4 personal; 2 area. 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 — No published quarter:** Quarterly production and employment The source remains registered, but no mine-keyed quarterly production row was published.
5. **LEGAL — 43 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 17 contested-violation rows, 17 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 9 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 29 inspection events and 371 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 46.5 — New miner training.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-46/section-46.5
- **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 56.15004 — Eye protection.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-N/section-56.15004
- **30 CFR 56.11001 — Safe access.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-J/section-56.11001
- **30 CFR 56.15005 — Safety belts and lines.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-N/section-56.15005
- **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 56.12002 — Controls and switches.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12002
- **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 56.1000 — Notification of commencement of operations and closing of mines.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-A/section-56.1000
- **30 CFR 56.11003 — Construction and maintenance of ladders.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-J/section-56.11003
- **30 CFR 56.14103 — Operators stations.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14103
- **30 CFR 56.4203 — Extinguisher recharging or replacement.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-C/section-56.4203

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 2 rows; 2007-03-23 through 2007-10-05; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2018-04-16 through 2018-04-16; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Metal and Nonmetal Area Samples:** 2 rows; 2009-11-13 through 2009-11-13; source ID `msha-area-samples`
- **Assessed Violations:** 75 rows; 2007-01-04 through 2017-11-28; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 17 rows; 2014-02-26 through 2018-09-12; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Conferences:** 9 rows; 2007-01-22 through 2013-09-24; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 17 rows; 2010-11-02 through 2017-11-28; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 2006-11-01 through 2006-11-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 29 rows; 2007-01-04 through 2017-11-28; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 26 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; 2010-11-02 through 2015-03-03; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 77 rows; 2007-01-04 through 2017-11-28; 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/rickard-rock-quarry-3503655`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/rickard-rock-quarry-3503655`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/3503655/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/3503655/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://3503655/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`