# Kocher Breaker

- **MSHA mine ID:** 3601891
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Facility / Coal (Anthracite)
- **Location:** Schuylkill, PA
- **Operator:** Harriman Coal Corporation
- **Controller:** Ronald  Lickman
- **Public source rows linked:** 133
- **Source coverage:** 13 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Ronald  Lickman (C00660) → Harriman Coal Corporation (P15979) → Kocher Breaker (3601891)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Robert W  Rissinger → Kocher Coal Company:** 1950-01-01 through 1994-10-03; derived from co-tenure at mine 3601891; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Ronald  Lickman → Harriman Coal Corporation:** 1994-10-04 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3601891; 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 0 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 13 violation rows across the full record; 5 carry an S&S flag and $1,212 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 21 samples:** Occupational health samples 18 coal dust; 3 coal quartz. 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 — 20 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 1 contested-violation rows, 6 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 13 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 22 inspection events and 318 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 77.1109 — Quantity and location of firefighting equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1109
- **30 CFR 77.1102 — Warning signs; smoking and open flame.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1102
- **30 CFR 77.502 — Electric equipment; examination, testing, and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.502
- **30 CFR 77.410 — Mobile equipment; automatic warning devices.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.410
- **30 CFR 77.1713 — Daily inspection of surface coal mine; certified person; reports of inspection.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-R/section-77.1713
- **30 CFR 48.26 — Experienced miner training.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-B/section-48.26
- **30 CFR 77.1605 — Loading and haulage equipment; installations.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1605
- **30 CFR 77.1705 — First aid training program; retraining of supervisory employees; availability to all miners.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-R/section-77.1705
- **30 CFR 48.28 — Annual refresher training of miners; minimum courses of instruction; hours of instruction.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-B/section-48.28

## Source coverage

- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2004-06-03 through 2004-06-03; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 13 rows; 2001-03-06 through 2004-01-27; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 6 rows; 2004-09-22 through 2004-10-26; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 18 rows; 2000-02-21 through 2001-02-20; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 13 rows; 2001-03-26 through 2004-02-25; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 1 rows; 2004-01-22 through 2004-01-22; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 1950-01-01 through 1994-10-04; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 22 rows; 2000-03-27 through 2004-06-01; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 36 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 4 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 3 rows; 2000-01-14 through 2001-02-20; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 13 rows; 2001-03-06 through 2004-01-27; 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/kocher-breaker-3601891`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/kocher-breaker-3601891`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/3601891/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/3601891/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://3601891/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`