# Amrize Whitehall Plant

- **MSHA mine ID:** 3600271
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Facility / Cement
- **Location:** Lehigh, PA
- **Operator:** Amrize Cement Inc.
- **Controller:** Amrize Ltd
- **Public source rows linked:** 7,048
- **Source coverage:** 16 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Amrize Ltd (0193740) → Amrize Cement Inc. (0051046) → Amrize Whitehall Plant (3600271)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Richard H  Foster → Whitehall Cement Manufacturing Company:** 1950-01-01 through 1984-04-03; derived from co-tenure at mine 3600271; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Lafarge S A → Lafarge Corp:** 1984-04-04 through 2002-10-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 3600271; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Lafarge S A → Lafarge North America:** 2002-11-01 through 2015-07-09; derived from co-tenure at mine 3600271; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Holcim Ltd → Lafarge North America:** 2015-07-10 through 2018-01-28; derived from co-tenure at mine 3600271; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Holcim Ltd → Amrize Cement Inc.:** 2018-01-29 through 2025-06-22; derived from co-tenure at mine 3600271; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Holcim Ltd → Amrize Cement Inc.:** 2018-01-29 through 2015-07-09; derived from co-tenure at mine 3600271; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Amrize Ltd → Amrize Cement Inc.:** 2025-06-23 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3600271; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 7
- Typed edges: 18
- Interval anomalies: 1
- 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 — 16 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 109 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 682 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 314 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 1,037 violation rows across the full record; 260 carry an S&S flag and $949,655 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 374 samples:** Occupational health samples 354 personal; 20 area. 5 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 45K employee hours and 84 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 128 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 51 contested-violation rows, 51 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 26 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 28 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 — 29 since 2021:** Inspections 123 inspection events and 6K 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.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-46/section-46.9
- **30 CFR 56.12028 — Testing grounding systems.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12028
- **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 56.14101 — Brakes.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14101
- **30 CFR 56.20003 — Housekeeping.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-S/section-56.20003
- **30 CFR 56.12032 — Inspection and cover plates.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12032
- **30 CFR 56.13021 — High-pressure hose connections.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-L/section-56.13021
- **30 CFR 56.14115 — Stationary grinding machines.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14115
- **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 56.13020 — Use of compressed air.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-L/section-56.13020

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 109 rows; 2000-03-13 through 2026-08-29; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 1976-07-04 through 1976-07-04; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Metal and Nonmetal Area Samples:** 20 rows; 2013-07-22 through 2013-07-22; source ID `msha-area-samples`
- **Assessed Violations:** 1,027 rows; 2000-01-27 through 2026-07-17; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 51 rows; 2008-02-14 through 2023-08-07; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Conferences:** 26 rows; 2003-10-29 through 2025-03-05; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 51 rows; 2007-02-26 through 2023-01-19; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 3,289 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 686 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 7 rows; 1950-01-01 through 2018-01-29; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 123 rows; 2000-01-26 through 2026-07-13; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 212 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 54 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:** 354 rows; 2002-01-24 through 2024-06-11; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 1,037 rows; 2000-01-27 through 2026-07-17; 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/amrize-whitehall-plant-3600271`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/amrize-whitehall-plant-3600271`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/3600271/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/3600271/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://3600271/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`