# Josephine #3

- **MSHA mine ID:** 3608719
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Indiana, PA
- **Operator:** Rosebud Mining Company
- **Controller:** J Clifford  Forrest III
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,245
- **Source coverage:** 14 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**J Clifford  Forrest III (C07485) → Rosebud Mining Company (P09635) → Josephine #3 (3608719)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **J Clifford  Forrest III → Rosebud Mining Company:** 1998-02-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3608719; 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 46 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 492 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 169 violation rows across the full record; 33 carry an S&S flag and $11,727 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 623 samples:** Occupational health samples 520 coal dust; 60 coal quartz; 43 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 14 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 — 42 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 4 contested-violation rows, 38 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 133 inspection events and 4K 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 75.1204 — Mine closure; filing of map with Secretary.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-M/section-75.1204
- **30 CFR 77.505 — Cable fittings; suitability.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.505
- **30 CFR 75.1107-16 — Inspection of fire suppression devices.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-L/section-75.1107-16
- **30 CFR 75.503 — Permissible electric face equipment; maintenance.** (4 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.503
- **30 CFR 75.1710 — Canopies or cabs; diesel-powered and electric face equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1710
- **30 CFR 75.1719 — Illumination; purpose and scope of §§ 75.1719 through 75.1719-4; time for compliance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1719
- **30 CFR 75.403 — Maintenance of incombustible content of rock dust.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-E/section-75.403
- **30 CFR 75.220 — Roof control plan.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-C/section-75.220

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 46 rows; 2000-06-21 through 2005-09-23; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2006-10-26 through 2006-10-26; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 167 rows; 2000-03-06 through 2006-04-21; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 38 rows; 2000-05-12 through 2005-10-06; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 520 rows; 2000-01-31 through 2005-10-20; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Contested Violations:** 4 rows; 2003-06-03 through 2005-05-17; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 1998-02-01 through 1998-02-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 133 rows; 2000-01-04 through 2006-10-20; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 50 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 12 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 43 rows; 2000-03-13 through 2003-12-10; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 60 rows; 2000-03-07 through 2005-10-20; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 169 rows; 2000-03-06 through 2006-04-21; 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/josephine-3-3608719`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/josephine-3-3608719`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/3608719/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/3608719/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://3608719/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`