# Fox Creek Quarry

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4801699
- **Status:** Intermittent
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Construction Sand and Gravel
- **Location:** Teton, WY
- **Operator:** Powers Excavating, Inc.
- **Controller:** Aaron  Powers; Eric  Cole
- **Public source rows linked:** 43
- **Source coverage:** 9 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Aaron  Powers; Eric  Cole (0184440) → Powers Excavating, Inc. (0195433) → Fox Creek Quarry (4801699)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Dwayne (John)  Montoya → On the Rocks #9 LLC:** 2006-07-31 through 2024-04-22; derived from co-tenure at mine 4801699; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Aaron  Powers et al → Powers Excavating, Inc.:** 2024-04-23 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4801699; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Eric  Cole et al → Powers Excavating, Inc.:** 2024-04-23 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4801699; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 3
- Typed edges: 7
- 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 — 9 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 9 violation rows across the full record; 1 carry an S&S flag and $1,361 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 2 samples:** Occupational health samples 2 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 1K employee hours and 2 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 — 3 since 2021:** Inspections 5 inspection events and 78 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 46.9 — 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 57.14132 — Horns and backup alarms for surface equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-M/section-57.14132
- **30 CFR 56.4402 — Safety can use.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-C/section-56.4402
- **30 CFR 56.4101 — Warning signs.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-C/section-56.4101
- **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 56.14207 — Parking procedures for unattended equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14207
- **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 56.3200 — Correction of hazardous conditions.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-B/section-56.3200
- **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

## Source coverage

- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2024-10-01 through 2024-10-01; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 9 rows; 2024-09-10 through 2026-04-20; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 2006-07-31 through 2024-04-23; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 5 rows; 2006-07-31 through 2026-04-19; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 9 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`
- **Metal and Nonmetal Personal Health Samples:** 2 rows; 2026-04-21 through 2026-04-21; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 9 rows; 2024-09-10 through 2026-04-20; 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/fox-creek-quarry-4801699`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/fox-creek-quarry-4801699`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4801699/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4801699/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4801699/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`