# River Hill Coal Co., Inc.

- **MSHA mine ID:** 3600884
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Clearfield, PA
- **Operator:** River Hill Coal Company Inc
- **Controller:** Harry J  Hanchar
- **Public source rows linked:** 3,132
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Harry J  Hanchar (C13348) → River Hill Coal Company Inc (P19425) → River Hill Coal Co., Inc. (3600884)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Tosco Corp → River Hill Coal Company Inc:** 1950-01-01 through 1988-02-08; derived from co-tenure at mine 3600884; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Harry J  Hanchar → River Hill Coal Company Inc:** 1988-02-09 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3600884; 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: 2026-10-17T05:35:58.500035+00:00.

## Assessment signals

1. **SAFETY — 0 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 28 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 673 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 1 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 194 violation rows across the full record; 82 carry an S&S flag and $32,423 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 1K samples:** Occupational health samples 790 coal dust; 45 coal quartz; 256 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 27 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 — 74K tons:** Quarterly production and employment 33K employee hours and 66 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 99 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 28 contested-violation rows, 56 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 15 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 8 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 — 13 since 2021:** Inspections 166 inspection events and 6K published inspection hours across the historical record.

## EIA annual operating context

- **Reporting year:** 2024
- **Production:** 8,688 short tons
- **Labor hours:** 13,485
- **Average employees:** 10
- **Coal supply region:** Appalachia Northern
- **Union code:** Not published
- **Published rows under this MSHA ID:** 1

## Recent Title 30 crosswalk

Snapshot current through 2026-08-19.

- **30 CFR 77.404 — Machinery and equipment; operation and maintenance.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.404
- **30 CFR 71.206 — Quarterly sampling; designated work positions.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-71/subpart-C/section-71.206
- **30 CFR 77.1110 — Examination and maintenance of firefighting equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1110
- **30 CFR 77.1606 — Loading and haulage equipment; inspection and maintenance.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1606
- **30 CFR 77.200 — Surface installations; general.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.200
- **30 CFR 77.1707 — First aid equipment; location; minimum requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-R/section-77.1707
- **30 CFR 77.410 — Mobile equipment; automatic warning devices.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.410
- **30 CFR 50.20 — Preparation and submission of MSHA Report Form 7000-1—Mine Accident, Injury, and Illness Report.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-C/section-50.20

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 28 rows; 2002-02-18 through 2018-09-13; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2026-10-14 through 2026-10-14; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 188 rows; 2000-07-06 through 2023-08-08; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 56 rows; 2000-06-20 through 2018-09-19; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 790 rows; 2000-02-01 through 2026-06-18; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 15 rows; 2001-10-12 through 2017-08-10; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 28 rows; 2003-08-21 through 2018-01-30; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 1,032 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 243 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 1950-01-01 through 1988-02-09; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 166 rows; 2000-02-02 through 2026-06-04; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 29 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`
- **Noise Samples:** 256 rows; 2000-02-02 through 2026-06-17; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 45 rows; 2000-10-31 through 2025-12-01; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 194 rows; 2000-07-06 through 2023-08-08; 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/river-hill-coal-co-inc-3600884`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/river-hill-coal-co-inc-3600884`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/3600884/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/3600884/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://3600884/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`