# Locust Summit Fine Coal Plant

- **MSHA mine ID:** 3603107
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Facility / Coal (Anthracite)
- **Location:** Northumberland, PA
- **Operator:** Gilberton Coal Company
- **Controller:** John W  Rich (Pa)
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,606
- **Source coverage:** 14 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**John W  Rich (Pa) (C00047) → Gilberton Coal Company (P00094) → Locust Summit Fine Coal Plant (3603107)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **John W  Rich (Pa) → Gilberton Coal Company:** 1950-01-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3603107; 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 — 1 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 4 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 145 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 7 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 56 violation rows across the full record; 12 carry an S&S flag and $5,582 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 268 samples:** Occupational health samples 167 coal dust; 4 coal quartz; 97 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 2 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 2K employee hours and 3 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 — 2 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 — 34 since 2021:** Inspections 126 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 77.207 — Illumination.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.207
- **30 CFR 77.1110 — Examination and maintenance of firefighting equipment.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1110
- **30 CFR 47.41 — Requirement for container labels.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-47/subpart-E/section-47.41
- **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 77.1713 — 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 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 77.1707 — 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 50.30 — Preparation and submission of MSHA Form 7000-2—Quarterly Employment and Coal Production Report.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-D/section-50.30
- **30 CFR 71.206 — Quarterly sampling; designated work positions.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-71/subpart-C/section-71.206

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 4 rows; 2002-04-16 through 2023-06-10; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2022-11-15 through 2022-11-15; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 56 rows; 2000-10-12 through 2026-07-01; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 167 rows; 2000-05-03 through 2026-08-24; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 739 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 164 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 1950-01-01 through 1950-01-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 126 rows; 2000-02-29 through 2026-07-08; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 162 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 28 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 97 rows; 2000-02-29 through 2026-07-01; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 4 rows; 2018-05-15 through 2020-06-02; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 56 rows; 2000-10-12 through 2026-07-01; 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/locust-summit-fine-coal-plant-3603107`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/locust-summit-fine-coal-plant-3603107`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/3603107/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/3603107/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://3603107/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`