# Penn Run Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 3608174
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Indiana, PA
- **Operator:** Mears Enterprises Inc
- **Controller:** Kerry L  Mears
- **Public source rows linked:** 532
- **Source coverage:** 14 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Kerry L  Mears (C07727) → Mears Enterprises Inc (P10041) → Penn Run Mine (3608174)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Kerry L  Mears → Mears Enterprises Inc:** 1990-09-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3608174; 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 19 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 233 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 48 violation rows across the full record; 20 carry an S&S flag and $3,469 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 291 samples:** Occupational health samples 236 coal dust; 30 coal quartz; 25 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 9 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 — 22 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 21 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 67 inspection events and 1K 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 75.403 — Maintenance of incombustible content of rock dust.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-E/section-75.403
- **30 CFR 75.1100-2 — Quantity and location of firefighting equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-L/section-75.1100-2
- **30 CFR 75.503 — Permissible electric face equipment; maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.503
- **30 CFR 75.220 — Roof control plan.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-C/section-75.220
- **30 CFR 75.1107-9 — Dry chemical devices; capacity; minimum requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-L/section-75.1107-9
- **30 CFR 75.203 — Mining methods.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-C/section-75.203
- **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
- **30 CFR 75.211 — Roof testing and scaling.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-C/section-75.211
- **30 CFR 75.1107-1 — Fire-resistant hydraulic fluids and fire suppression devices on underground equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-L/section-75.1107-1

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 19 rows; 2000-06-10 through 2002-03-28; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2003-07-21 through 2003-07-21; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 48 rows; 2000-01-04 through 2002-02-06; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 21 rows; 2001-02-12 through 2002-11-14; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 236 rows; 2000-01-10 through 2002-03-20; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 1 rows; 2000-02-25 through 2000-02-25; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 1990-09-01 through 1990-09-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 67 rows; 2000-01-03 through 2003-07-17; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 27 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 7 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 25 rows; 2000-01-19 through 2001-10-29; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 30 rows; 2000-01-10 through 2002-02-06; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 48 rows; 2000-01-04 through 2002-02-06; 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/penn-run-mine-3608174`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/penn-run-mine-3608174`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/3608174/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/3608174/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://3608174/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`