# DICO STONE CO.

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4104058
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Dimension Limestone
- **Location:** Palo Pinto, TX
- **Operator:** Dico Stone Company
- **Controller:** Dale  Ireland
- **Public source rows linked:** 35
- **Source coverage:** 9 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Dale  Ireland (M12434) → Dico Stone Company (L16257) → DICO STONE CO. (4104058)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Dale  Ireland → Dico Stone Company:** 1999-02-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4104058; 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: 2026-10-13T11:19:05.459773+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 — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 9 violation rows across the full record; 6 carry an S&S flag and $3,349 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 0 samples:** Occupational health samples No published samples. 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 0 employee hours and 0 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 6 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 6 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 4 inspection events and 32 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 56.14130 — Roll-over protective structures (ROPS) and seat belts.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14130
- **30 CFR 56.15004 — Eye protection.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-N/section-56.15004
- **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
- **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 56.14132 — 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 56.14101 — Brakes.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14101

## Source coverage

- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2001-03-08 through 2001-03-08; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 9 rows; 2000-04-11 through 2000-06-28; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 6 rows; 2001-04-10 through 2001-04-10; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 1999-02-01 through 1999-02-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 4 rows; 2000-04-11 through 2000-08-29; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 3 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Violations:** 9 rows; 2000-04-11 through 2000-06-28; 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/dico-stone-co-4104058`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/dico-stone-co-4104058`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4104058/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4104058/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4104058/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`