# Mountaineer #1

- **MSHA mine ID:** 3608501
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Somerset, PA
- **Operator:** Mountaineer Mining Corporation
- **Controller:** Robert George  Koval
- **Public source rows linked:** 983
- **Source coverage:** 14 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Robert George  Koval (C15206) → Mountaineer Mining Corporation (P23047) → Mountaineer #1 (3608501)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Robert George  Koval → Mountaineer Mining Corporation:** 1995-01-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3608501; 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 2 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 144 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 1 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 47 violation rows across the full record; 9 carry an S&S flag and $5,785 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 334 samples:** Occupational health samples 239 coal dust; 5 coal quartz; 90 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 7 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 203 employee hours and 5 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 — 3 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 — 7 since 2021:** Inspections 84 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 77.1606 — Loading and haulage equipment; inspection and maintenance.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1606
- **30 CFR 77.502-2 — Electric equipment; frequency of examination and testing.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.502-2
- **30 CFR 77.410 — Mobile equipment; automatic warning devices.** (4 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.410
- **30 CFR 77.1605 — Loading and haulage equipment; installations.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1605
- **30 CFR 77.1104 — Accumulations of combustible materials.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1104
- **30 CFR 48.29 — Records of training.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-B/section-48.29
- **30 CFR 77.1710 — Protective clothing; requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-R/section-77.1710

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 2 rows; 2016-08-29 through 2017-03-15; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2024-03-28 through 2024-03-28; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 45 rows; 2003-03-12 through 2023-05-24; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 239 rows; 2000-03-28 through 2023-06-28; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 248 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 59 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 1995-01-01 through 1995-01-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 84 rows; 2000-02-17 through 2024-03-28; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 128 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 33 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 90 rows; 2000-03-28 through 2023-05-24; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 5 rows; 2003-03-13 through 2019-02-28; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 47 rows; 2003-03-12 through 2023-05-24; 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/mountaineer-1-3608501`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/mountaineer-1-3608501`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/3608501/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/3608501/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://3608501/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`