# EASTERN INDUSTRIES INC. MT BETHE

- **MSHA mine ID:** 3608243
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Crushed, Broken Sandstone
- **Location:** Northampton, PA
- **Operator:** Eastern Industries Inc
- **Controller:** New Enterprise Stone & Lime Company Inc; New Enterprise Stone & Lime Com
- **Public source rows linked:** 68
- **Source coverage:** 9 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**New Enterprise Stone & Lime Company Inc; New Enterprise Stone & Lime Com (M00271) → Eastern Industries Inc (L00307) → EASTERN INDUSTRIES INC. MT BETHE (3608243)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **William F Wismer → Penn Jersey Paving Materials Inc:** 1991-04-01 through 1995-07-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 3608243; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Steven J Kolbe → Penn Jersey Materials:** 1995-08-01 through 1996-08-25; derived from co-tenure at mine 3608243; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Stabler Companies Inc → Eastern Industries Inc:** 1996-08-26 through 2008-01-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 3608243; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **New Enterprise Stone & Lime Company Inc → Eastern Industries Inc:** 2008-02-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3608243; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 4
- Typed edges: 11
- 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: 2026-10-17T05:35:58.500035+00:00.

## Assessment signals

1. **SAFETY — 0 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 1 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 5 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 6 violation rows across the full record; 0 carry an S&S flag and $330 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 0 samples:** Occupational health samples No published samples. 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 2K 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 — 0 since 2021:** Inspections 6 inspection events and 59 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 56.12032 — Inspection and cover plates.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12032
- **30 CFR 56.14107 — Moving machine parts.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14107
- **30 CFR 56.14132 — Horns and backup alarms.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14132
- **30 CFR 56.14100 — Safety defects; examination, correction and records.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14100

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 1 rows; 2001-08-30 through 2001-08-30; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2003-02-12 through 2003-02-12; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 6 rows; 2000-07-25 through 2001-06-27; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 4 rows; 1991-04-01 through 1996-08-26; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 6 rows; 2000-07-25 through 2003-02-12; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 32 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`
- **Violations:** 6 rows; 2000-07-25 through 2001-06-27; 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/eastern-industries-inc-mt-bethe-3608243`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/eastern-industries-inc-mt-bethe-3608243`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/3608243/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/3608243/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://3608243/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`