# Elk County Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 3608984
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Elk, PA
- **Operator:** Jurassic Energy Inc
- **Controller:** Ash B English; Tim N Morgan
- **Public source rows linked:** 189
- **Source coverage:** 12 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Ash B English; Tim N Morgan (0050569) → Jurassic Energy Inc (P24607) → Elk County Mine (3608984)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Ronald L  Butler Jr → Jurassic Energy Inc:** 2001-05-01 through 2005-05-12; derived from co-tenure at mine 3608984; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Ash B English et al → Jurassic Energy Inc:** 2005-05-13 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3608984; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Tim N Morgan et al → Jurassic Energy Inc:** 2005-05-13 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3608984; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 3
- 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 1 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 96 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 6 violation rows across the full record; 3 carry an S&S flag and $616 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 38 samples:** Occupational health samples 24 coal dust; 1 coal quartz; 13 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 300 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 — 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 26 inspection events and 568 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 41.12 — Changes; notification by operator.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-G/part-41/subpart-B/section-41.12
- **30 CFR 77.1705 — First aid training program; retraining of supervisory employees; availability to all miners.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-R/section-77.1705
- **30 CFR 77.1605 — Loading and haulage equipment; installations.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1605
- **30 CFR 77.1200 — Mine map.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-M/section-77.1200

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 1 rows; 2006-10-26 through 2006-10-26; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2017-09-06 through 2017-09-06; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 6 rows; 2010-04-21 through 2017-09-06; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 24 rows; 2005-07-28 through 2017-09-06; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 2001-05-01 through 2001-05-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 26 rows; 2005-06-30 through 2017-09-05; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 90 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 17 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 13 rows; 2005-07-28 through 2017-09-06; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 1 rows; 2014-10-28 through 2014-10-28; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 6 rows; 2010-04-21 through 2017-09-06; 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/elk-county-mine-3608984`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/elk-county-mine-3608984`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/3608984/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/3608984/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://3608984/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`