# Buckhorn

- **MSHA mine ID:** 3609655
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Dimension Sandstone
- **Location:** Susquehanna, PA
- **Operator:** Litts & Son Stone Company
- **Controller:** Harold  Litts
- **Public source rows linked:** 136
- **Source coverage:** 13 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Harold  Litts (0080693) → Litts & Son Stone Company (0095745) → Buckhorn (3609655)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Harold  Litts → Litts & Son Stone Company:** 2008-07-31 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3609655; 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 0 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 24 violation rows across the full record; 4 carry an S&S flag and $2,270 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 0 samples:** Occupational health samples No published samples. 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 — 0 tons:** Quarterly production and employment 10 employee hours and 1 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 37 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 18 contested-violation rows, 18 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 — 0 since 2021:** Inspections 8 inspection events and 144 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 50.30 — Preparation and submission of MSHA Form 7000-2—Quarterly Employment and Coal Production Report.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-D/section-50.30
- **30 CFR 56.15004 — Eye protection.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-N/section-56.15004
- **30 CFR 47.31 — Requirement for a HazCom program.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-47/subpart-D/section-47.31
- **30 CFR 46.3 — Training plans.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-46/section-46.3
- **30 CFR 56.18010 — First aid.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-Q/section-56.18010
- **30 CFR 56.18002 — Examination of working places.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-Q/section-56.18002
- **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 56.14100 — Safety defects; examination, correction and records.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14100

## Source coverage

- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2011-08-09 through 2011-08-09; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 21 rows; 2008-07-31 through 2009-08-31; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 18 rows; 2009-11-24 through 2010-11-30; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Conferences:** 1 rows; 2009-04-21 through 2009-04-21; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 18 rows; 2008-07-31 through 2009-08-31; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 20 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 7 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 2008-07-31 through 2008-07-31; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 8 rows; 2008-07-15 through 2011-08-09; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 13 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 3 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Violations:** 24 rows; 2008-07-31 through 2009-08-31; 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/buckhorn-3609655`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/buckhorn-3609655`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/3609655/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/3609655/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://3609655/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`