# American Asphalt - CHASE QUARRY

- **MSHA mine ID:** 3600005
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Crushed, Broken Sandstone
- **Location:** Luzerne, PA
- **Operator:** American Asphalt Paving Company
- **Controller:** Bernard C (aka Jr.)  Banks
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,130
- **Source coverage:** 15 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Bernard C (aka Jr.)  Banks (0138421) → American Asphalt Paving Company (L02649) → American Asphalt - CHASE QUARRY (3600005)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Bernard C  Banks  et al → American Asphalt Paving Company:** 1950-01-01 through 2017-12-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 3600005; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **John F  Banks  et al → American Asphalt Paving Company:** 1950-01-01 through 2017-12-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 3600005; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Bernard C (aka Jr.)  Banks → American Asphalt Paving Company:** 2018-01-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3600005; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 3
- 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 — 4 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 31 historical accident/injury rows; 1 coded fatalities and 524 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 44 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 178 violation rows across the full record; 45 carry an S&S flag and $48,439 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 33 samples:** Occupational health samples 33 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 8K employee hours and 17 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 58 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 28 contested-violation rows, 28 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 2 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 — 33 since 2021:** Inspections 95 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 56.11002 — Handrails and toeboards.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-J/section-56.11002
- **30 CFR 56.12004 — Electrical conductors.** (4 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12004
- **30 CFR 56.12013 — Splices and repairs of power cables.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12013
- **30 CFR 56.15005 — Safety belts and lines.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-N/section-56.15005
- **30 CFR 56.11001 — Safe access.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-J/section-56.11001
- **30 CFR 56.14112 — Construction and maintenance of guards.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14112

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 31 rows; 2000-03-08 through 2024-11-26; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2021-12-09 through 2021-12-09; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 175 rows; 2000-05-31 through 2026-06-23; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 28 rows; 2008-06-24 through 2013-04-05; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Conferences:** 2 rows; 2025-03-11 through 2025-03-11; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 28 rows; 2007-09-18 through 2025-07-16; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 192 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 50 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 1950-01-01 through 1950-01-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 95 rows; 2000-05-31 through 2026-06-16; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 258 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 55 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:** 33 rows; 2003-06-18 through 2026-01-28; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 178 rows; 2000-05-31 through 2026-06-23; 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/american-asphalt-chase-quarry-3600005`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/american-asphalt-chase-quarry-3600005`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/3600005/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/3600005/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://3600005/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`