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Cascade Quarry: 55 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Heidelberg Materials AG
Gold Bar, Snohomish County, WA  ·  Intermittent
MSHA Mine ID: 4503548

Cascade Quarry has $7K in proposed MSHA penalties and $151 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2019–2022
Latest incident
Aug 2022
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2003
55
citations
14
significant & substantial
$6,805
proposed penalties
$6,654
paid to date
98% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $151 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
See HM Pacific Northwest Inc.'s full MSHA compliance history →
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2003
39
inspections on record
551
inspection hours
n/a
citations per 100 inspection hours
ⓘ This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
Rate withheld: 551 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Cascade Quarry has $7K in proposed MSHA penalties and $151 outstanding across 0 contested dockets.

Penalty disposition
ⓘ Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
$7K
proposed penalties
$7K
current assessed
$7K
paid to date
$151
outstanding
54 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-12-30.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
ⓘ Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
25.9%
significant & substantial
1.9%
high negligence or reckless
25.9%
reasonably likely or greater
55.6%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 18.5% low, 79.6% moderate, 1.9% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Health sampling
ⓘ A sample is a point in time compliance measurement, not an individual exposure history. These figures describe MSHA sampling records and do not establish causation or personal dose.

Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
ⓘ Many samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.

Last sampled: 2021-09-21, 4 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
11
samples
5
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg6
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz5
Show the individual readings (11)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2021-09-21 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Bobcat Operator
2021-09-21 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Crusher Oper/Worker
2017-03-15 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Laborer, Bullgang
2017-03-15 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
2016-06-28 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Front-end Loader Operator
2016-06-28 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Backhoe Operator
2005-02-24 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.26 0.6 0.43 Cleanup Man
2005-02-24 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.22 0.68 0.32 Crusher Oper/Worker
2004-02-04 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.57 0.99 0.58 Crusher Oper/Worker
2004-02-04 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.3 0.84 0.36 Crusher Oper/Worker
2004-02-04 Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz 0.35 0.97 0.36 Crusher Oper/Worker
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly. Metal/nonmetal contaminant figures come from MSHA's Personal Health Samples and Area Samples files (public record), updated weekly.

Cascade Quarry recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2006.

Injury rate, 2006
ⓘ This rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
No reportable injury cases in any year shown. Employee-hours were reported in each of those years, so these are true zeros rather than missing data. Citations, listed in the compliance record above, are inspector-found violations and are counted separately from worker injuries.
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 3.41 and the all-US-mining average was 3.91 cases per 100 workers.
In Washington, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 4.09 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Ownership history
  1. Miller Quarry LLC 2003 to 2006
  2. RLF Miller Quarry LLC 2006 to 2015
  3. CPC Materials, Inc. 2015 to 2017
  4. CalPortland Company 2017 to 2025
  5. HM Pacific Northwest Inc. 2025 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2026 2
2025 3
2024 4
2023 6
2022 6
2021 5
2020 4
2019 5
2018 5
2017 7
2016 7
2015 6
2007 16
2006 17
2005 8
2004 7
2003 9
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Cascade Quarry sits in Snohomish County, Washington, where the Census mining category is 0.0% of county employment.

Local economic context
ⓘ County figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.
Snohomish County, Washington · Population 834,648
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$107,982
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
Quarterly safety rates
ⓘ Citations per million reported employee-hours. Rates begin in 2000, when MSHA's quarterly employment data starts; earlier incidents are counted but cannot be rate-adjusted. Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2026 Q2 523 0 0 0.0
2026 Q1 968 0 0 0.0
2025 Q4 300 1 0 3333.3
2025 Q2 1,309 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 1,847 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 1,851 4 0 2161.0
2024 Q3 1,893 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 1,788 0 0 0.0
Show 50 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2024 Q1 2,015 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 2,172 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 2,134 2 0 937.2
2023 Q2 1,644 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 2,193 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 1,919 2 0 1042.2
2022 Q3 1,883 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,936 2 0 1033.1
2022 Q1 1,796 2 0 1113.6
2021 Q4 2,153 4 2 1857.9
2021 Q3 2,370 3 1 1265.8
2021 Q2 2,166 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1,752 1 0 570.8
2020 Q4 1,723 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 1,507 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 863 1 0 1158.7
2020 Q1 2,067 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 2,020 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 2,656 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 2,721 1 0 367.5
2019 Q1 2,295 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 1,922 1 1 520.3
2018 Q3 2,859 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 2,465 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 2,345 2 1 852.9
2017 Q4 2,421 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 3,075 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 2,870 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 2,820 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 2,731 1 0 366.2
2016 Q3 3,169 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 2,874 2 0 695.9
2016 Q1 2,542 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 1,748 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 5,090 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 9,648 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 8,615 7 3 812.5
2006 Q2 6,584 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 4,752 2 0 420.9
2005 Q4 3,009 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 2,795 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 1,315 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 2,660 4 1 1503.8
2004 Q4 2,371 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 1,488 2 1 1344.1
2004 Q2 1,500 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 2,197 4 2 1820.7
2003 Q4 5,343 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 6,617 6 1 906.8
2003 Q2 3,630 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2022 · 1 incident

August 14, 2022 WA · Metal/Non-Metal prep plant foreman, supervisor, mill plant supervisor, kiln supervisor SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
CalPortland Company · Fall to the walkway or working surface

I was on bench #3 explaining to another employee where I wanted EE to come up and pull material from (EE was on our loadout level). EE said could not see me very well so I told EE hold on a second while I repositioned myself so that EE could see me. When I moved to another spot, I slipped in some wet material causing me to fall very quickly and landed on my shoulder.

2019 · 1 incident

April 9, 2019 WA · Metal/Non-Metal master mechanic, foreman, supervisor MACHINERY
CalPortland Company · Struck by flying object

Employee was guiding excavator bucket to pull bridged rock back into feeder. As the teeth of the bucket grabbed the rock the rock fractured and a piece struck the employee in the chin, resulting in six stitches.