# Ben Hal Strips

- **MSHA mine ID:** 3608541
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Mercer, PA
- **Operator:** Ben Hal Mining
- **Controller:** Neil I  Atwell
- **Public source rows linked:** 662
- **Source coverage:** 16 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Neil I  Atwell (C15377) → Ben Hal Mining (P23388) → Ben Hal Strips (3608541)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Neil I  Atwell → Ben Hal Mining:** 1996-01-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3608541; 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: 2026-10-17T05:35:58.500035+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 62 violation rows across the full record; 21 carry an S&S flag and $31,973 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 300 samples:** Occupational health samples 198 coal dust; 9 coal quartz; 93 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 1 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 — 7K tons:** Quarterly production and employment 2K employee hours and 4 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 27 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 13 contested-violation rows, 13 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 1 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 2 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 93 inspection events and 2K 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 71.206 — Quarterly sampling; designated work positions.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-71/subpart-C/section-71.206
- **30 CFR 71.400 — Bathing facilities; change rooms; sanitary flush toilet facilities.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-71/subpart-E/section-71.400
- **30 CFR 50.30 — Preparation and submission of MSHA Form 7000-2—Quarterly Employment and Coal Production Report.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-D/section-50.30
- **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 77.1110 — Examination and maintenance of firefighting equipment.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1110
- **30 CFR 77.1606 — Loading and haulage equipment; inspection and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1606

## Source coverage

- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2019-04-07 through 2019-04-07; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 62 rows; 2000-03-15 through 2019-04-18; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 13 rows; 2010-01-08 through 2011-11-15; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 198 rows; 2000-03-16 through 2019-02-20; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 1 rows; 2008-03-21 through 2008-03-21; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 13 rows; 2008-04-02 through 2009-08-24; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 65 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 18 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 1996-01-01 through 1996-01-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 93 rows; 2000-01-26 through 2019-04-18; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 12 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 20 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 93 rows; 2000-03-16 through 2018-12-12; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 9 rows; 2003-12-10 through 2017-10-31; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 62 rows; 2000-03-15 through 2019-04-18; 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/ben-hal-strips-3608541`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/ben-hal-strips-3608541`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/3608541/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/3608541/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://3608541/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`