# Rausch Creek Coal Mining Branchdale LLC

- **MSHA mine ID:** 3609178
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Facility / Coal (Anthracite)
- **Location:** Schuylkill, PA
- **Operator:** Rausch Creek Coal Mining Branchdale LLC
- **Controller:** Robert  Rivkin
- **Public source rows linked:** 358
- **Source coverage:** 13 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Robert  Rivkin (0145403) → Rausch Creek Coal Mining Branchdale LLC (0161314) → Rausch Creek Coal Mining Branchdale LLC (3609178)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Scott B  Kimmel → Michael Coal Company:** 2003-11-13 through 2019-01-06; derived from co-tenure at mine 3609178; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Robert  Rivkin → Rausch Creek Coal Mining Branchdale LLC:** 2019-01-07 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3609178; 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: 2026-10-17T05:35:58.500035+00:00.

## Assessment signals

1. **SAFETY — 0 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 1 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 34 violation rows across the full record; 8 carry an S&S flag and $3,665 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 202 samples:** Occupational health samples 129 coal dust; 2 coal quartz; 71 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 — No published quarter:** Quarterly production and employment The source remains registered, but no mine-keyed quarterly production row was published.
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 — 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 — 1 since 2021:** Inspections 58 inspection events and 1K 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 77.1110 — Examination and maintenance of firefighting equipment.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1110
- **30 CFR 77.208 — Storage of materials.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.208
- **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 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 47.44 — Temporary, portable containers.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-47/subpart-E/section-47.44
- **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 77.1109 — Quantity and location of firefighting equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1109
- **30 CFR 77.502-2 — Electric equipment; frequency of examination and testing.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.502-2

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 1 rows; 2016-08-02 through 2016-08-02; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2026-04-07 through 2026-04-07; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 34 rows; 2004-03-25 through 2018-12-03; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 129 rows; 2004-03-25 through 2019-04-22; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 1 rows; 2004-05-05 through 2004-05-05; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 2 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 2003-11-13 through 2019-01-07; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 58 rows; 2004-03-25 through 2021-09-28; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 22 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 71 rows; 2004-03-25 through 2018-12-04; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 2 rows; 2017-12-04 through 2018-04-30; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 34 rows; 2004-03-25 through 2018-12-03; 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/rausch-creek-coal-mining-branchdale-llc-3609178`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/rausch-creek-coal-mining-branchdale-llc-3609178`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/3609178/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/3609178/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://3609178/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`