# BIG BEAR QUARRY

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4500056
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Crushed, Broken Traprock
- **Location:** Snohomish, WA
- **Operator:** Rominco Llc
- **Controller:** Prime Cascade Investments Llc; Barclays North Inc
- **Public source rows linked:** 41
- **Source coverage:** 8 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Prime Cascade Investments Llc; Barclays North Inc (M12501) → Rominco Llc (L16343) → BIG BEAR QUARRY (4500056)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Schaneltzer Ted A → Ted A Schaneltzer:** 1950-01-01 through 1980-04-08; derived from co-tenure at mine 4500056; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Jerry (GR)  Severson → G R Severson Trucking Company:** 1980-04-09 through 1980-06-11; derived from co-tenure at mine 4500056; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **William  Joplin → William Joplin:** 1980-06-12 through 1981-01-26; derived from co-tenure at mine 4500056; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Eugene A  Hos et al → Miller Lime & Quarry Inc:** 1981-01-27 through 1988-11-15; derived from co-tenure at mine 4500056; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Leslie E  McCombs → Miller Lime & Quarry:** 1988-11-16 through 1993-06-16; derived from co-tenure at mine 4500056; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Patricia  Seals → Alpine Rockeries Inc:** 1993-06-17 through 1999-02-10; derived from co-tenure at mine 4500056; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Barclays North Inc → Rominco Llc:** 1999-02-11 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4500056; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Prime Cascade Investments Llc et al → Rominco Llc:** 1999-02-11 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4500056; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 8
- Typed edges: 22
- 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 5 violation rows across the full record; 0 carry an S&S flag and $353 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 512 employee hours and 1 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 0 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 0 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 23 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.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14100
- **30 CFR 56.6132 — Magazine requirements.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-E/section-56.6132
- **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

- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2001-08-13 through 2001-08-13; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 4 rows; 2001-01-22 through 2001-01-22; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 8 rows; 1950-01-01 through 1999-02-11; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 4 rows; 2000-10-03 through 2001-06-18; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 14 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 4 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Violations:** 5 rows; 2001-01-22 through 2001-01-25; 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/big-bear-quarry-4500056`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/big-bear-quarry-4500056`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4500056/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4500056/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4500056/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`