# Mountain Side Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 3609108
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Anthracite)
- **Location:** Northumberland, PA
- **Operator:** Mountain Side Coal Co.
- **Controller:** Pete  Shingara Jr; Clinton M  Wynn
- **Public source rows linked:** 56
- **Source coverage:** 12 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Pete  Shingara Jr; Clinton M  Wynn (0040911) → Mountain Side Coal Co. (0050550) → Mountain Side Mine (3609108)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Clinton M  Wynn et al → Mountain Side Coal Co.:** 2002-07-12 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3609108; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Pete  Shingara Jr et al → Mountain Side Coal Co.:** 2002-07-12 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3609108; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 2
- Typed edges: 4
- 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 0 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 11 violation rows across the full record; 1 carry an S&S flag and $845 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 9 samples:** Occupational health samples 6 coal dust; 1 coal quartz; 2 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 0 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 — 781 tons:** Quarterly production and employment 500 employee hours and 3 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 1 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 0 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 1 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 16 inspection events and 146 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 75.1711 — Sealing of mines.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1711
- **30 CFR 75.1203 — Availability of mine map.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-M/section-75.1203
- **30 CFR 75.372 — Mine ventilation map.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.372
- **30 CFR 75.1100-2 — Quantity and location of firefighting equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-L/section-75.1100-2
- **30 CFR 49.2 — Availability of mine rescue teams.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-49/subpart-A/section-49.2
- **30 CFR 75.325 — Air quantity.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.325
- **30 CFR 75.370 — Mine ventilation plan; submission and approval.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.370
- **30 CFR 75.381 — Escapeways; anthracite mines.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.381
- **30 CFR 75.1714 — Availability of approved self-rescue devices; instruction in use and location.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1714
- **30 CFR 49.9 — Mine emergency notification plan.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-49/subpart-A/section-49.9

## Source coverage

- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2004-03-17 through 2004-03-17; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 9 rows; 2002-09-16 through 2003-07-15; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 6 rows; 2002-11-13 through 2002-11-19; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 1 rows; 2002-10-21 through 2002-10-21; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 2002-07-12 through 2002-07-12; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 16 rows; 2002-08-01 through 2004-03-17; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 4 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 2 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 2 rows; 2002-11-19 through 2002-11-19; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 1 rows; 2002-11-19 through 2002-11-19; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 11 rows; 2002-09-16 through 2003-07-15; 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/mountain-side-mine-3609108`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/mountain-side-mine-3609108`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/3609108/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/3609108/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://3609108/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`