# East Switchback

- **MSHA mine ID:** 3503839
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Crushed, Broken Basalt
- **Location:** Klamath, OR
- **Operator:** Whiskey Creek Timber Co.
- **Controller:** James M  Dahm
- **Public source rows linked:** 38
- **Source coverage:** 9 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**James M  Dahm (0121561) → Whiskey Creek Timber Co. (0142076) → East Switchback (3503839)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **James M  Dahm → Whiskey Creek Timber Co.:** 2015-11-04 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3503839; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 1
- Typed edges: 3
- 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 2 violation rows across the full record; 0 carry an S&S flag and $234 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 1 samples:** Occupational health samples 1 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 0 employee hours and 0 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 6 inspection events and 51 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 56.1000 — Notification of commencement of operations and closing of mines.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-A/section-56.1000
- **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

## Source coverage

- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2020-12-02 through 2020-12-02; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 2 rows; 2017-05-09 through 2018-08-08; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 2015-11-04 through 2015-11-04; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 6 rows; 2016-07-19 through 2020-09-02; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 19 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 5 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:** 1 rows; 2017-05-09 through 2017-05-09; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 2 rows; 2017-05-09 through 2018-08-08; 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/east-switchback-3503839`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/east-switchback-3503839`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/3503839/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/3503839/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://3503839/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`