# Empire Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 2600095
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Gypsum
- **Location:** Pershing, NV
- **Operator:** Empire Mining Co., LLC
- **Controller:** Gatehouse Partners LLC
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,177
- **Source coverage:** 15 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Gatehouse Partners LLC (0127221) → Empire Mining Co., LLC (0146233) → Empire Mine (2600095)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **USG Corporation → United States Gypsum Company:** 1950-01-01 through 2016-05-26; derived from co-tenure at mine 2600095; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Gatehouse Partners LLC → Empire Mining Co., LLC:** 2016-05-27 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 2600095; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 2
- Typed edges: 6
- 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 3 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 1 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 59 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 197 violation rows across the full record; 47 carry an S&S flag and $99,170 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 23 samples:** Occupational health samples 23 personal. 2 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 39K employee hours and 64 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 43 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 16 contested-violation rows, 17 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 10 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 3 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 — 23 since 2021:** Inspections 72 inspection events and 2K 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 50.30 — Preparation and submission of MSHA Form 7000-2—Quarterly Employment and Coal Production Report.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-D/section-50.30
- **30 CFR 56.18002 — Examination of working places.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-Q/section-56.18002
- **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 56.6101 — Areas around explosive material storage facilities.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-E/section-56.6101
- **30 CFR 48.31 — Hazard training.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-B/section-48.31
- **30 CFR 56.4130 — Electric substations and liquid storage facilities.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-C/section-56.4130
- **30 CFR 56.11001 — Safe access.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-J/section-56.11001
- **30 CFR 56.20003 — Housekeeping.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-S/section-56.20003

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 3 rows; 2007-06-28 through 2017-10-03; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2024-12-31 through 2024-12-31; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 194 rows; 2000-01-25 through 2026-01-15; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 17 rows; 2018-10-10 through 2026-08-14; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Conferences:** 10 rows; 2002-04-29 through 2022-11-22; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 16 rows; 2018-04-09 through 2026-01-14; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 309 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 52 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 1950-01-01 through 2016-05-27; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 72 rows; 2000-01-24 through 2026-07-01; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 222 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 58 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:** 23 rows; 2003-05-21 through 2022-07-27; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 197 rows; 2000-01-25 through 2026-01-15; 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/empire-mine-2600095`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/empire-mine-2600095`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/2600095/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/2600095/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://2600095/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`