# Fossil #1

- **MSHA mine ID:** 3608624
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Indiana, PA
- **Operator:** Fossil Fuel Inc
- **Controller:** Larry  Weaver
- **Public source rows linked:** 192
- **Source coverage:** 11 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Larry  Weaver (C15583) → Fossil Fuel Inc (P23720) → Fossil #1 (3608624)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Larry  Weaver → Fossil Fuel Inc:** 1997-03-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3608624; 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 0 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 1 violation rows across the full record; 0 carry an S&S flag and $55 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 56 samples:** Occupational health samples 37 coal dust; 1 coal quartz; 18 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 3 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 — 116 tons:** Quarterly production and employment 40 employee hours and 1 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 52 inspection events and 494 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 62.130 — Permissible exposure level.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-M/part-62/section-62.130

## Source coverage

- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2015-09-28 through 2015-09-28; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 1 rows; 2001-09-11 through 2001-09-11; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 37 rows; 2000-04-06 through 2015-06-02; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 1997-03-01 through 1997-03-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 52 rows; 2000-04-04 through 2015-06-02; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 63 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 16 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 18 rows; 2000-04-06 through 2015-02-25; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 1 rows; 2002-10-16 through 2002-10-16; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 1 rows; 2001-09-11 through 2001-09-11; 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/fossil-1-3608624`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/fossil-1-3608624`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/3608624/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/3608624/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://3608624/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`