# BELL #1 MINE

- **MSHA mine ID:** 3608750
- **Status:** Temporarily Idled
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Clearfield, PA
- **Operator:** RES Coal LLC
- **Controller:** Robindale Energy Services Inc
- **Public source rows linked:** 2,184
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Robindale Energy Services Inc (C15935) → RES Coal LLC (0090866) → BELL #1 MINE (3608750)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Shad B  Spencer → Bell Resources Inc.:** 1998-10-01 through 2025-02-26; derived from co-tenure at mine 3608750; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Robindale Energy Services Inc → RES Coal LLC:** 2025-02-27 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3608750; 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 4 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 2 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 9 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 104 violation rows across the full record; 57 carry an S&S flag and $46,704 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 297 samples:** Occupational health samples 197 coal dust; 7 coal quartz; 93 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 7 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 — 78 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 21 contested-violation rows, 21 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 36 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 9 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 — 16 since 2021:** Inspections 98 inspection events and 2K published inspection hours across the historical record.

## EIA annual operating context

- **Reporting year:** 2024
- **Production:** 1,284 short tons
- **Labor hours:** 484
- **Average employees:** 2
- **Coal supply region:** Appalachia Northern
- **Union code:** Not published
- **Published rows under this MSHA ID:** 1

## Recent Title 30 crosswalk

Snapshot current through 2026-08-19.

- **30 CFR 71.209 — Status change reports.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-71/subpart-C/section-71.209
- **30 CFR 77.410 — Mobile equipment; automatic warning devices.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.410
- **30 CFR 77.1605 — Loading and haulage equipment; installations.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1605
- **30 CFR 48.31 — Hazard training.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-B/section-48.31
- **30 CFR 77.1713 — Daily inspection of surface coal mine; certified person; reports of inspection.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-R/section-77.1713
- **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

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 4 rows; 2000-08-22 through 2012-07-06; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2026-07-22 through 2026-07-22; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 102 rows; 2000-08-24 through 2024-07-17; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 21 rows; 2005-07-13 through 2014-03-28; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 197 rows; 2000-05-03 through 2022-07-29; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 36 rows; 2000-10-16 through 2019-04-01; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 21 rows; 2004-12-06 through 2013-03-11; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 1,098 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 259 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 1998-10-01 through 2025-02-27; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 98 rows; 2000-01-26 through 2026-07-22; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 113 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 27 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 93 rows; 2000-05-03 through 2022-07-29; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 7 rows; 2002-05-08 through 2020-06-29; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 104 rows; 2000-08-24 through 2024-07-17; 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/bell-1-mine-3608750`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/bell-1-mine-3608750`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/3608750/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/3608750/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://3608750/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`