# Loree Silt Basin & Bank Operation

- **MSHA mine ID:** 3608674
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Facility / Coal (Anthracite)
- **Location:** Luzerne, PA
- **Operator:** Heavy Media Inc
- **Controller:** Kenneth M  Pollock
- **Public source rows linked:** 166
- **Source coverage:** 13 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Kenneth M  Pollock (C01323) → Heavy Media Inc (P22786) → Loree Silt Basin & Bank Operation (3608674)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Kenneth M  Pollock et al → Heavy Media Inc:** 1994-05-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3608674; 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 — 5 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 18 violation rows across the full record; 1 carry an S&S flag and $1,453 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 38 samples:** Occupational health samples 27 coal dust; 1 coal quartz; 10 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 — 0 tons:** Quarterly production and employment 983 employee hours and 2 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 — 20 since 2021:** Inspections 62 inspection events and 823 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 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 71.206 — Quarterly sampling; designated work positions.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-71/subpart-C/section-71.206
- **30 CFR 77.216 — Water, sediment, or slurry impoundments and impounding structures; general.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.216
- **30 CFR 77.216-4 — Water, sediment or slurry impoundments and impounding structures; reporting requirements; certification.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.216-4
- **30 CFR 77.216-3 — Water, sediment, or slurry impoundments and impounding structures; inspection requirements; correction of hazards; program requirements.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.216-3
- **30 CFR 77.107-1 — Plans for training programs.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-B/section-77.107-1
- **30 CFR 77.216-1 — Water, sediment or slurry impoundments and impounding structures; identification.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.216-1
- **30 CFR 77.215-2 — Refuse piles; reporting requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.215-2

## Source coverage

- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2025-04-01 through 2025-04-01; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 14 rows; 2000-05-04 through 2026-01-29; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 27 rows; 2000-05-04 through 2026-09-15; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 2 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 1994-05-01 through 1994-05-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 62 rows; 2000-05-03 through 2026-09-15; 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:** 16 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 10 rows; 2000-05-04 through 2026-09-15; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 1 rows; 2026-09-15 through 2026-09-15; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 18 rows; 2000-05-04 through 2026-09-15; 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/loree-silt-basin-bank-operation-3608674`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/loree-silt-basin-bank-operation-3608674`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/3608674/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/3608674/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://3608674/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`