# Crow's Nest

- **MSHA mine ID:** 3608813
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Facility / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Westmoreland, PA
- **Operator:** Crow's Nest Synfuels, L. P.
- **Controller:** Crow's Nest Capital Corp
- **Public source rows linked:** 290
- **Source coverage:** 14 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Crow's Nest Capital Corp (C15887) → Crow's Nest Synfuels, L. P. (P24323) → Crow's Nest (3608813)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Crow's Nest Capital Corp → Crow's Nest Synfuels, L. P.:** 1999-09-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3608813; 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 5 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 1 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 30 violation rows across the full record; 21 carry an S&S flag and $2,311 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 107 samples:** Occupational health samples 77 coal dust; 4 coal quartz; 26 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 — 0 tons:** Quarterly production and employment 9 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 — 2 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 40 inspection events and 497 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 77.516 — Electric wiring and equipment; installation and maintenance.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.516
- **30 CFR 47.41 — Requirement for container labels.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-47/subpart-E/section-47.41
- **30 CFR 77.200 — Surface installations; general.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.200
- **30 CFR 77.404 — Machinery and equipment; operation and maintenance.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.404
- **30 CFR 50.20 — Preparation and submission of MSHA Report Form 7000-1—Mine Accident, Injury, and Illness Report.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-C/section-50.20
- **30 CFR 77.513 — Insulating mats at power switches.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.513
- **30 CFR 77.904 — Identification of circuit breakers.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-J/section-77.904
- **30 CFR 77.400 — Mechanical equipment guards.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.400
- **30 CFR 77.603 — Clamping of trailing cables to equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-G/section-77.603
- **30 CFR 77.202 — Dust accumulations in surface installations.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.202

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 5 rows; 2000-10-11 through 2004-11-11; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2007-03-06 through 2007-03-06; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 30 rows; 2000-03-08 through 2005-11-02; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 77 rows; 2000-03-13 through 2005-10-20; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 31 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 9 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 1999-09-01 through 1999-09-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 40 rows; 2000-02-25 through 2006-10-20; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 29 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 6 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 26 rows; 2001-03-14 through 2005-05-26; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 4 rows; 2002-07-24 through 2005-02-10; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 30 rows; 2000-03-08 through 2005-11-02; 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/crow-s-nest-3608813`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/crow-s-nest-3608813`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/3608813/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/3608813/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://3608813/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`