# Orchard Slope

- **MSHA mine ID:** 3606132
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Anthracite)
- **Location:** Schuylkill, PA
- **Operator:** Sunset Coal Company
- **Controller:** Joseph  Kleeman
- **Public source rows linked:** 14
- **Source coverage:** 6 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Joseph  Kleeman (C09332) → Sunset Coal Company (P23066) → Orchard Slope (3606132)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Klinger Ronald & Franklin Lucas → Orchard Coal Company:** 1976-07-01 through 1987-07-12; derived from co-tenure at mine 3606132; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Cress Charles J & Joseph Kleeman → C & K Coal Company:** 1987-07-13 through 1991-02-20; derived from co-tenure at mine 3606132; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Wertz Ernest K--Albert Carl Sr Et Al → Consolidated Coal Company:** 1991-02-21 through 1991-08-04; derived from co-tenure at mine 3606132; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Cress Charles J & Joseph Kleeman → C & K Coal Company:** 1991-08-05 through 1993-06-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 3606132; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Joseph  Kleeman  et al → Ashland Coal Company:** 1993-07-01 through 1994-09-27; derived from co-tenure at mine 3606132; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Cress Charles-Clair Kehler-James Schlegel → Sunset Coal Company:** 1994-09-28 through 1994-12-12; derived from co-tenure at mine 3606132; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Joseph  Kleeman  et al → Sunset Coal Company:** 1994-12-13 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3606132; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 7
- Typed edges: 20
- 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 2 violation rows across the full record; 0 carry an S&S flag and $109 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 0 samples:** Occupational health samples No published samples. 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 — No published quarter:** Quarterly production and employment The source remains registered, but no mine-keyed quarterly production row was published.
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 — 0 since 2021:** Inspections 2 inspection events and 7 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 75.1204 — Mine closure; filing of map with Secretary.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-M/section-75.1204

## Source coverage

- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 1997-02-10 through 1997-02-10; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 1 rows; 2005-09-19 through 2005-09-19; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 7 rows; 1976-07-01 through 1994-12-13; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 2 rows; 2005-09-15 through 2010-07-20; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Violations:** 2 rows; 2005-09-19 through 2005-11-10; 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/orchard-slope-3606132`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/orchard-slope-3606132`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/3606132/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/3606132/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://3606132/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`