# Rock Ridge No 1 Slope

- **MSHA mine ID:** 3607741
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Anthracite)
- **Location:** Schuylkill, PA
- **Operator:** B & B Coal Company
- **Controller:** Donald C  Bender; Rick  Bender
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,317
- **Source coverage:** 14 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Donald C  Bender; Rick  Bender (C10412) → B & B Coal Company (P14346) → Rock Ridge No 1 Slope (3607741)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Rick  Bender et al → B & B Coal Company:** 1985-09-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3607741; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Donald C  Bender et al → B & B Coal Company:** 1985-09-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3607741; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 2
- Typed edges: 4
- 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 95 violation rows across the full record; 16 carry an S&S flag and $9,095 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 788 samples:** Occupational health samples 685 coal dust; 13 coal quartz; 90 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 — 2K tons:** Quarterly production and employment 4K employee hours and 9 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 20 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 5 contested-violation rows, 5 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 10 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 185 inspection events and 4K 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 75.1323 — Blasting circuits.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-N/section-75.1323
- **30 CFR 75.1403-10 — Criteria—Haulage; general.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-O/section-75.1403-10
- **30 CFR 75.1505 — Escapeway maps.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-P/section-75.1505
- **30 CFR 75.1712-6 — Underground sanitary facilities; installation and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1712-6
- **30 CFR 75.1714-3 — Self-rescue devices; inspection, testing, maintenance, repair, and recordkeeping.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1714-3
- **30 CFR 75.381 — Escapeways; anthracite mines.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.381
- **30 CFR 75.1714-2 — Self-rescue devices; use and location requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1714-2
- **30 CFR 77.205 — Travelways at surface installations.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.205

## Source coverage

- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2013-04-01 through 2013-04-01; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 91 rows; 2002-05-01 through 2012-01-18; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 5 rows; 2008-06-27 through 2010-12-17; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 685 rows; 2000-01-03 through 2012-01-17; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 10 rows; 2007-04-10 through 2008-07-11; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 5 rows; 2007-02-27 through 2008-11-04; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 1985-09-01 through 1985-09-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 185 rows; 2000-02-09 through 2013-01-10; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 106 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 28 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 90 rows; 2000-02-16 through 2011-11-21; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 13 rows; 2000-06-22 through 2010-01-13; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 95 rows; 2002-05-01 through 2012-01-18; 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/rock-ridge-no-1-slope-3607741`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/rock-ridge-no-1-slope-3607741`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/3607741/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/3607741/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://3607741/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`