# Ancient Sun Strip Saylor-McKinney

- **MSHA mine ID:** 3605208
- **Status:** NonProducing
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Clarion, PA
- **Operator:** Ancient Sun Inc
- **Controller:** Donald E  Kahle Jr
- **Public source rows linked:** 535
- **Source coverage:** 14 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Donald E  Kahle Jr (C05280) → Ancient Sun Inc (P06339) → Ancient Sun Strip Saylor-McKinney (3605208)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Michael  Andree → Ancient Sun Inc:** 1974-08-01 through 1976-12-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 3605208; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Donald E  Kahle Jr et al → Ancient Sun Inc:** 1977-01-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3605208; 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 — 6 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 26 violation rows across the full record; 5 carry an S&S flag and $2,940 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 143 samples:** Occupational health samples 106 coal dust; 3 coal quartz; 34 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 6 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 — 343 tons:** Quarterly production and employment 75 employee hours and 2 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 3 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 1 contested-violation rows, 1 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 1 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 — 14 since 2021:** Inspections 109 inspection events and 1K published inspection hours across the historical record.

## EIA annual operating context

- **Reporting year:** 2024
- **Production:** 1,188 short tons
- **Labor hours:** 929
- **Average employees:** 2
- **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 41.12 — Changes; notification by operator.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-G/part-41/subpart-B/section-41.12
- **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 50.30 — Preparation and submission of MSHA Form 7000-2—Quarterly Employment and Coal Production Report.** (5 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-D/section-50.30
- **30 CFR 71.209 — Status change reports.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-71/subpart-C/section-71.209
- **30 CFR 77.1104 — Accumulations of combustible materials.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1104
- **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 72.100 — Periodic examinations.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-72/subpart-B/section-72.100

## Source coverage

- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2026-02-03 through 2026-02-03; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 24 rows; 2000-04-10 through 2026-02-03; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 1 rows; 2010-01-15 through 2010-01-15; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 106 rows; 2000-04-11 through 2025-09-18; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 1 rows; 2010-01-15 through 2010-01-15; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 1 rows; 2007-10-10 through 2007-10-10; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 1974-08-01 through 1977-01-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 109 rows; 2000-04-10 through 2026-09-14; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 198 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:** 34 rows; 2000-04-11 through 2025-09-17; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 3 rows; 2004-11-09 through 2020-05-12; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 26 rows; 2000-04-10 through 2026-09-14; 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/ancient-sun-strip-saylor-mckinney-3605208`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/ancient-sun-strip-saylor-mckinney-3605208`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/3605208/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/3605208/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://3605208/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`