# Lenig Tunnel

- **MSHA mine ID:** 3608288
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Anthracite)
- **Location:** Northumberland, PA
- **Operator:** L Coal Company
- **Controller:** James  Lenig
- **Public source rows linked:** 513
- **Source coverage:** 13 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**James  Lenig (C07809) → L Coal Company (P24427) → Lenig Tunnel (3608288)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **James  Lenig → West Cameron Mining:** 1991-10-01 through 1999-01-07; derived from co-tenure at mine 3608288; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Kenneth  Rothermel et al → K Town Mining:** 1999-01-08 through 1999-12-22; derived from co-tenure at mine 3608288; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Sharp Walter & Randy Boyer → H & R Coal Company:** 1999-12-23 through 2000-05-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 3608288; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **James  Lenig → L Coal Company:** 2000-06-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3608288; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 4
- Typed edges: 12
- 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 0 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 58 violation rows across the full record; 14 carry an S&S flag and $3,184 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 225 samples:** Occupational health samples 204 coal dust; 6 coal quartz; 15 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 — 720 tons:** Quarterly production and employment 2K employee hours and 4 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 35 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 25 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 114 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 75.1100-2 — Quantity and location of firefighting equipment.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-L/section-75.1100-2
- **30 CFR 75.1713-7 — First-aid equipment; location; minimum requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1713-7
- **30 CFR 77.701 — Grounding metallic frames, casings, and other enclosures of electric equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-H/section-77.701
- **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 75.332 — Working sections and working places.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.332
- **30 CFR 75.334 — Worked-out areas and areas where pillars are being recovered.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.334
- **30 CFR 75.1403-6 — Criteria—Self-propelled personnel carriers.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-O/section-75.1403-6
- **30 CFR 75.381 — Escapeways; anthracite mines.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.381
- **30 CFR 75.333 — Ventilation controls.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.333

## Source coverage

- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2008-09-11 through 2008-09-11; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 53 rows; 2000-05-09 through 2004-05-11; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 25 rows; 2001-01-31 through 2004-02-24; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 204 rows; 2000-02-03 through 2004-06-14; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 10 rows; 2002-05-07 through 2003-08-05; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 4 rows; 1991-10-01 through 2000-06-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 114 rows; 2000-01-10 through 2010-07-21; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 15 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:** 15 rows; 2000-05-11 through 2004-02-19; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 6 rows; 2000-10-25 through 2003-11-24; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 58 rows; 2000-05-09 through 2004-05-11; 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/lenig-tunnel-3608288`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/lenig-tunnel-3608288`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/3608288/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/3608288/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://3608288/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`