# Alden Cleaning Plant

- **MSHA mine ID:** 3605591
- **Status:** Temporarily Idled
- **Type / commodity:** Facility / Coal (Anthracite)
- **Location:** Luzerne, PA
- **Operator:** Silverbrook Anthracite Inc
- **Controller:** Vincent  Kassa
- **Public source rows linked:** 436
- **Source coverage:** 11 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Vincent  Kassa (C05085) → Silverbrook Anthracite Inc (P03021) → Alden Cleaning Plant (3605591)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Vincent  Kassa → Silverbrook Anthracite Inc:** 1975-05-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3605591; 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: 2026-10-17T05:35:58.500035+00:00.

## Assessment signals

1. **SAFETY — 0 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 3 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 295 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 12 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 59 violation rows across the full record; 17 carry an S&S flag and $6,979 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 180 samples:** Occupational health samples 109 coal dust; 71 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 720 employee hours and 2 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 — 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 — 9 since 2021:** Inspections 82 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 71.400 — Bathing facilities; change rooms; sanitary flush toilet facilities.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-71/subpart-E/section-71.400
- **30 CFR 77.2102 — Written safety program.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-V/section-77.2102
- **30 CFR 77.1713 — Daily inspection of surface coal mine; certified person; reports of inspection.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-R/section-77.1713
- **30 CFR 77.904 — Identification of circuit breakers.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-J/section-77.904
- **30 CFR 77.206 — Ladders; construction; installation and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.206
- **30 CFR 77.1605 — Loading and haulage equipment; installations.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1605
- **30 CFR 77.400 — Mechanical equipment guards.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.400
- **30 CFR 71.501 — Sanitary toilet facilities; maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-71/subpart-F/section-71.501
- **30 CFR 77.502-2 — Electric equipment; frequency of examination and testing.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.502-2
- **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 77.1707 — 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

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 3 rows; 2005-04-20 through 2011-03-24; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2026-01-28 through 2026-01-28; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 59 rows; 2000-03-01 through 2025-05-21; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 109 rows; 2000-01-13 through 2025-05-21; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 1975-05-01 through 1975-05-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 82 rows; 2000-01-06 through 2026-09-03; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 12 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 38 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 71 rows; 2000-03-23 through 2025-05-21; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Violations:** 59 rows; 2000-03-01 through 2025-05-21; 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/alden-cleaning-plant-3605591`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/alden-cleaning-plant-3605591`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/3605591/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/3605591/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://3605591/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`