# Serill Strip

- **MSHA mine ID:** 3607730
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Anthracite)
- **Location:** Schuylkill, PA
- **Operator:** Hardway Coal Company Inc
- **Controller:** John  Melochick
- **Public source rows linked:** 536
- **Source coverage:** 11 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**John  Melochick (C12134) → Hardway Coal Company Inc (P17209) → Serill Strip (3607730)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **John  Melochick → Hardway Coal Company Inc:** 1985-09-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3607730; 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 0 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 9 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 40 violation rows across the full record; 8 carry an S&S flag and $5,490 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 243 samples:** Occupational health samples 164 coal dust; 1 coal quartz; 78 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 — 3K tons:** Quarterly production and employment 3K employee hours and 4 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 — 11 since 2021:** Inspections 79 inspection events and 3K published inspection hours across the historical record.

## EIA annual operating context

- **Reporting year:** 2024
- **Production:** 11,416 short tons
- **Labor hours:** 11,200
- **Average employees:** 4
- **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 77.410 — Mobile equipment; automatic warning devices.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.410
- **30 CFR 77.1102 — Warning signs; smoking and open flame.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1102
- **30 CFR 77.1605 — Loading and haulage equipment; installations.** (4 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1605
- **30 CFR 77.403-1 — Mobile equipment; rollover protective structures (ROPS).** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.403-1
- **30 CFR 47.41 — Requirement for container labels.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-47/subpart-E/section-47.41
- **30 CFR 77.1110 — Examination and maintenance of firefighting equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1110
- **30 CFR 77.208 — Storage of materials.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.208
- **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

## Source coverage

- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2002-09-06 through 2002-09-06; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 39 rows; 2002-11-19 through 2025-05-30; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 164 rows; 2001-06-14 through 2026-09-22; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 1985-09-01 through 1985-09-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 79 rows; 2000-03-07 through 2026-09-02; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 105 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 27 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 78 rows; 2001-09-10 through 2025-12-10; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 1 rows; 2024-09-04 through 2024-09-04; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 40 rows; 2002-11-19 through 2026-09-08; 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/serill-strip-3607730`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/serill-strip-3607730`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/3607730/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/3607730/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://3607730/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`