# Salado USA

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4104216
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Dimension Stone NEC
- **Location:** Williamson, TX
- **Operator:** BC3B Salado Operations LLC
- **Controller:** Third Brick LLC
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,233
- **Source coverage:** 15 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Third Brick LLC (0192200) → BC3B Salado Operations LLC (0202253) → Salado USA (4104216)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **RLF Salado Properties LLC → Salado Quarry Inc:** 2000-09-01 through 2006-02-28; derived from co-tenure at mine 4104216; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **RLF Salado Properties LLC → RLF Salado Quarries, LLC:** 2006-03-01 through 2016-07-21; derived from co-tenure at mine 4104216; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Wayne  Patterson → Salado Operations:** 2016-07-22 through 2021-03-21; derived from co-tenure at mine 4104216; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Dos Rios Partners - A, LP et al → Salado Operations:** 2021-03-22 through 2025-02-20; derived from co-tenure at mine 4104216; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Dos Rios Partners, LP et al → Salado Operations:** 2021-03-22 through 2025-02-20; derived from co-tenure at mine 4104216; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Main Street Equity Interests Inc et al → Salado Operations:** 2021-03-22 through 2025-02-20; derived from co-tenure at mine 4104216; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Third Brick LLC → BC3B Salado Operations LLC:** 2025-02-21 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4104216; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 7
- Typed edges: 16
- 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 — 5 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 30 historical accident/injury rows; 1 coded fatalities and 800 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 162 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 299 violation rows across the full record; 56 carry an S&S flag and $190,888 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 14 samples:** Occupational health samples 14 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 25K employee hours and 42 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 140 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 67 contested-violation rows, 69 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 4 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 — 19 since 2021:** Inspections 78 inspection events and 1K 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 56.14100 — 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 56.20013 — Waste receptacles.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-S/section-56.20013
- **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 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 56.14205 — Machinery, equipment, and tools.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14205
- **30 CFR 56.12030 — Correction of dangerous conditions.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12030
- **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 56.12032 — Inspection and cover plates.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12032
- **30 CFR 56.12008 — Insulation and fittings for power wires and cables.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12008
- **30 CFR 56.16007 — Taglines, hitches, and slings.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-O/section-56.16007
- **30 CFR 47.41 — Requirement for container labels.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-47/subpart-E/section-47.41

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 30 rows; 2002-03-28 through 2025-01-30; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2000-10-11 through 2000-10-11; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 296 rows; 2002-03-14 through 2026-05-19; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 69 rows; 2003-06-09 through 2025-09-11; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Conferences:** 4 rows; 2002-09-30 through 2014-06-22; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 67 rows; 2014-10-29 through 2024-09-05; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 96 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 26 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 7 rows; 2000-09-01 through 2025-02-21; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 78 rows; 2001-07-10 through 2026-05-19; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 194 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:** 14 rows; 2010-01-05 through 2025-03-19; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 299 rows; 2002-03-14 through 2026-05-19; 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/salado-usa-4104216`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/salado-usa-4104216`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4104216/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4104216/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4104216/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`