# Killen Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 3608519
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Westmoreland, PA
- **Operator:** AMFIRE Mining Company, LLC
- **Controller:** Alpha Natural Resources, Inc.
- **Public source rows linked:** 321
- **Source coverage:** 14 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. (0041211) → AMFIRE Mining Company, LLC (0051231) → Killen Mine (3608519)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Mitchell R  Harvey → Dunamis Resources, Inc:** 1995-08-01 through 2003-03-10; derived from co-tenure at mine 3608519; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. → AMFIRE Mining Company, LLC:** 2003-03-11 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3608519; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 2
- Typed edges: 6
- 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 2 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 6 violation rows across the full record; 2 carry an S&S flag and $409 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 23 samples:** Occupational health samples 11 coal dust; 2 coal quartz; 10 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 — 0 tons:** Quarterly production and employment 0 employee hours and 0 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 — 1 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 13 inspection events and 129 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 77.402 — Hand-held power tools; safety devices.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.402
- **30 CFR 77.502 — Electric equipment; examination, testing, and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.502
- **30 CFR 77.412 — Compressed air systems.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.412
- **30 CFR 77.400 — Mechanical equipment guards.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.400
- **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 72.620 — Drill dust control at surface mines and surface areas of underground mines.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-72/subpart-E/section-72.620

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 2 rows; 2002-08-06 through 2003-04-25; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2004-01-22 through 2004-01-22; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 6 rows; 2002-08-07 through 2003-03-25; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 11 rows; 2002-08-08 through 2003-09-23; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 211 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 46 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 1995-08-01 through 2003-03-11; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 13 rows; 2002-04-23 through 2003-11-06; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 8 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 2 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 10 rows; 2002-09-25 through 2003-09-23; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 2 rows; 2002-08-08 through 2003-09-23; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 6 rows; 2002-08-07 through 2003-03-25; 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/killen-mine-3608519`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/killen-mine-3608519`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/3608519/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/3608519/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://3608519/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`