# Becker/Bender

- **MSHA mine ID:** 3606928
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Cambria, PA
- **Operator:** Paul F Becker Coal Company
- **Controller:** Paul F  Becker
- **Public source rows linked:** 175
- **Source coverage:** 14 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Paul F  Becker (C03586) → Paul F Becker Coal Company (P04361) → Becker/Bender (3606928)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Paul F  Becker → Paul F Becker Coal Company:** 1980-01-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3606928; 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 — 0 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 1 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 21 violation rows across the full record; 8 carry an S&S flag and $4,086 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 31 samples:** Occupational health samples 16 coal dust; 3 coal quartz; 12 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 10 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 110 employee hours and 1 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 6 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 3 contested-violation rows, 3 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 43 inspection events and 452 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 71.208 — Respirable dust samples; report to operator; posting.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-71/subpart-C/section-71.208
- **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 77.1606 — Loading and haulage equipment; inspection and maintenance.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1606
- **30 CFR 77.409 — Shovels, draglines, and tractors.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.409
- **30 CFR 77.1000 — Highwalls, pits and spoil banks; plans.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-K/section-77.1000
- **30 CFR 77.404 — Machinery and equipment; operation and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.404
- **30 CFR 77.1700 — Communications in work areas.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-R/section-77.1700
- **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 77.1005 — Scaling highwalls; general.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-K/section-77.1005

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 1 rows; 2001-06-11 through 2001-06-11; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2009-07-31 through 2009-07-31; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 21 rows; 2000-09-21 through 2008-10-15; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 3 rows; 2006-01-18 through 2006-03-23; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 16 rows; 2000-08-08 through 2009-06-16; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Contested Violations:** 3 rows; 2005-04-13 through 2005-05-12; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 1980-01-01 through 1980-01-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 43 rows; 2000-03-23 through 2009-06-15; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 39 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 10 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 12 rows; 2001-03-28 through 2008-10-15; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 3 rows; 2001-06-07 through 2006-05-22; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 21 rows; 2000-09-21 through 2008-10-15; 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/becker-bender-3606928`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/becker-bender-3606928`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/3606928/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/3606928/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://3606928/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`