# Williamstown Mine #1

- **MSHA mine ID:** 3609435
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Anthracite)
- **Location:** Dauphin, PA
- **Operator:** Kimmel's Mining, Inc
- **Controller:** Scott B  Kimmel
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,746
- **Source coverage:** 13 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Scott B  Kimmel (0040883) → Kimmel's Mining, Inc (0073786) → Williamstown Mine #1 (3609435)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Scott B  Kimmel → Kimmel's Mining, Inc:** 2006-07-18 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3609435; 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 3 historical accident/injury rows; 1 coded fatalities and 159 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 29 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 112 violation rows across the full record; 14 carry an S&S flag and $14,957 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 1K samples:** Occupational health samples 1,097 coal dust; 12 coal quartz; 78 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 10 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 — 3K tons:** Quarterly production and employment 4K employee hours and 9 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 2 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 0 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 2 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 — 62 since 2021:** Inspections 181 inspection events and 7K published inspection hours across the historical record.

## EIA annual operating context

- **Reporting year:** 2024
- **Production:** 10,024 short tons
- **Labor hours:** 15,280
- **Average employees:** 8
- **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 75.333 — Ventilation controls.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.333
- **30 CFR 70.208 — Quarterly sampling; mechanized mining units.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-70/subpart-C/section-70.208
- **30 CFR 77.1109 — Quantity and location of firefighting equipment.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1109
- **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 75.381 — Escapeways; anthracite mines.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.381
- **30 CFR 75.1505 — Escapeway maps.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-P/section-75.1505
- **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 75.520 — Electric equipment; switches.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.520
- **30 CFR 75.1714-8 — Reporting SCSR inventory and malfunctions; retention of SCSRs.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1714-8

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 3 rows; 2008-08-18 through 2020-10-27; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2020-12-22 through 2020-12-22; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 106 rows; 2006-09-15 through 2026-07-27; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 1,097 rows; 2007-06-07 through 2054-10-05; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 2 rows; 2006-10-25 through 2022-11-14; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 2006-07-18 through 2006-07-18; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 181 rows; 2006-09-14 through 2026-10-07; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 121 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 31 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 78 rows; 2008-02-20 through 2026-05-13; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 12 rows; 2008-05-05 through 2025-04-07; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 112 rows; 2006-09-15 through 2026-10-05; 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/williamstown-mine-1-3609435`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/williamstown-mine-1-3609435`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/3609435/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/3609435/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://3609435/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`