# Buck Drift

- **MSHA mine ID:** 3607456
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Anthracite)
- **Location:** Schuylkill, PA
- **Operator:** D & F Deep Mine
- **Controller:** Kerry  Harris
- **Public source rows linked:** 234
- **Source coverage:** 15 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Kerry  Harris (0072271) → D & F Deep Mine (0119570) → Buck Drift (3607456)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Dando Frederick P Et Al → D & F Deep Mine Buck Drift:** 1983-04-01 through 2000-09-10; derived from co-tenure at mine 3607456; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Randy C  Rothermel Jr  et al → D & F Deep Mine:** 2000-09-11 through 2011-09-29; derived from co-tenure at mine 3607456; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Cindy L  Rothermel  et al → D & F Deep Mine:** 2000-09-11 through 2011-09-29; derived from co-tenure at mine 3607456; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Kerry  Harris → D & F Deep Mine:** 2011-09-30 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3607456; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 4
- Typed edges: 10
- 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 14 violation rows across the full record; 3 carry an S&S flag and $2,322 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 83 samples:** Occupational health samples 77 coal dust; 3 coal quartz; 3 noise. 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 — 0 tons:** Quarterly production and employment 0 employee hours and 0 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 9 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 4 contested-violation rows, 4 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 — 0 since 2021:** Inspections 56 inspection events and 762 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 75.1721 — Opening of new underground coal mines, or reopening and reactivating of abandoned or deactivated coal mines, notification by the operator; requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1721
- **30 CFR 75.220 — Roof control plan.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-C/section-75.220
- **30 CFR 75.1713 — Emergency medical assistance; first-aid.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1713
- **30 CFR 75.1200 — Mine map.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-M/section-75.1200
- **30 CFR 75.372 — Mine ventilation map.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.372
- **30 CFR 75.512 — Electric equipment; examination, testing and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.512
- **30 CFR 75.1002 — Installation of electric equipment and conductors; permissibility.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-K/section-75.1002

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 1 rows; 2002-04-03 through 2002-04-03; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2011-10-13 through 2011-10-13; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 11 rows; 2001-11-21 through 2010-06-15; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 4 rows; 2003-12-16 through 2003-12-16; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 77 rows; 2000-11-06 through 2003-02-26; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 1 rows; 2003-04-15 through 2003-04-15; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 4 rows; 2001-11-19 through 2002-01-30; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 4 rows; 1983-04-01 through 2011-09-30; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 56 rows; 2000-08-02 through 2011-10-25; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 43 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 11 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 3 rows; 2002-12-09 through 2002-12-09; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 3 rows; 2001-09-17 through 2003-01-17; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 14 rows; 2001-11-20 through 2010-06-15; 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/buck-drift-3607456`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/buck-drift-3607456`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/3607456/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/3607456/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://3607456/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`