# Torrance Plant

- **MSHA mine ID:** 3610155
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Crushed, Broken Limestone NEC
- **Location:** Westmoreland, PA
- **Operator:** Mellott Company LLC
- **Controller:** Jonathan  Schilowitz
- **Public source rows linked:** 766
- **Source coverage:** 14 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Jonathan  Schilowitz (0168101) → Mellott Company LLC (L00045) → Torrance Plant (3610155)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **H B Mellott Estate Inc → Mellott Company LLC:** 2015-08-31 through 2022-04-04; derived from co-tenure at mine 3610155; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Jonathan  Schilowitz → Mellott Company LLC:** 2022-04-05 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3610155; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 2
- Typed edges: 5
- 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; 0 coded fatalities and 402 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 1 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 33 violation rows across the full record; 3 carry an S&S flag and $77,972 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 15 samples:** Occupational health samples 15 personal. 6 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 1K employee hours and 5 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 36 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 18 contested-violation rows, 18 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 0 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 2 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 — 7 since 2021:** Inspections 19 inspection events and 588 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 57.14112 — Construction and maintenance of guards.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-M/section-57.14112
- **30 CFR 57.5001 — Exposure limits for airborne contaminants.** (6 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-D/section-57.5001
- **30 CFR 57.4101 — Warning signs.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-C/section-57.4101
- **30 CFR 57.12004 — Electrical conductors.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-K/section-57.12004
- **30 CFR 57.14101 — Brakes.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-M/section-57.14101
- **30 CFR 57.4201 — Inspection.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-C/section-57.4201
- **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

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 3 rows; 2015-09-01 through 2019-03-26; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2024-04-01 through 2024-04-01; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 29 rows; 2016-04-12 through 2021-03-11; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 18 rows; 2017-10-13 through 2017-11-08; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Contested Violations:** 18 rows; 2016-04-12 through 2016-04-13; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 472 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 66 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 2015-08-31 through 2015-08-31; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 19 rows; 2015-08-31 through 2024-03-18; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 69 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 20 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Metal and Nonmetal Personal Health Samples:** 15 rows; 2017-11-14 through 2022-10-19; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 33 rows; 2016-03-24 through 2021-03-11; 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/torrance-plant-3610155`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/torrance-plant-3610155`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/3610155/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/3610155/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://3610155/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`