# Penn View Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 3608741
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Indiana, PA
- **Operator:** Penn View Mining, Inc.
- **Controller:** Thomas J  Smith
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,672
- **Source coverage:** 15 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Thomas J  Smith (C13674) → Penn View Mining, Inc. (P24367) → Penn View Mine (3608741)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Joseph J  Peles → Joseph Peles Coal Company:** 1998-06-01 through 2000-01-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 3608741; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Thomas J  Smith → Penn View Mining, Inc.:** 2000-02-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3608741; 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 55 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 862 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 250 violation rows across the full record; 77 carry an S&S flag and $22,173 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 791 samples:** Occupational health samples 677 coal dust; 48 coal quartz; 66 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 24 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 76 employee hours and 1 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 12 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 0 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 12 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 158 inspection events and 6K 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 75.220 — Roof control plan.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-C/section-75.220
- **30 CFR 77.1110 — Examination and maintenance of firefighting equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1110
- **30 CFR 75.360 — Preshift examination at fixed intervals.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.360
- **30 CFR 75.516 — Power wires; support.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.516
- **30 CFR 75.400 — Accumulation of combustible materials.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-E/section-75.400
- **30 CFR 77.404 — Machinery and equipment; operation and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.404
- **30 CFR 75.1502 — Mine emergency evacuation and firefighting program of instruction.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-P/section-75.1502
- **30 CFR 77.1605 — Loading and haulage equipment; installations.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1605
- **30 CFR 75.1403-10 — Criteria—Haulage; general.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-O/section-75.1403-10

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 55 rows; 2000-04-06 through 2007-12-10; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2009-03-25 through 2009-03-25; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 246 rows; 2000-04-13 through 2008-10-20; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 677 rows; 2000-04-17 through 2009-03-09; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 12 rows; 2000-05-26 through 2008-03-21; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 57 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 6 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 1998-06-01 through 2000-02-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 158 rows; 2000-02-22 through 2009-03-30; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 74 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 19 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 66 rows; 2000-04-19 through 2009-03-09; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 48 rows; 2000-05-02 through 2008-01-22; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 250 rows; 2000-04-13 through 2008-10-20; 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/penn-view-mine-3608741`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/penn-view-mine-3608741`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/3608741/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/3608741/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://3608741/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`