# Broad Mountain Slope

- **MSHA mine ID:** 3610233
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Anthracite)
- **Location:** Schuylkill, PA
- **Operator:** Little Buck Coal Co.
- **Controller:** Ronald  Bender; Kris  Bender
- **Public source rows linked:** 382
- **Source coverage:** 10 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Ronald  Bender; Kris  Bender (0131081) → Little Buck Coal Co. (P15251) → Broad Mountain Slope (3610233)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Kris  Bender et al → Little Buck Coal Co.:** 2018-03-09 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3610233; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Ronald  Bender et al → Little Buck Coal Co.:** 2018-03-09 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3610233; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Ronald  Bender et al → Little Buck Coal Co.:** 2018-03-09 through 2017-01-27; derived from co-tenure at mine 3610233; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Edmund C  Neidlinger et al → Little Buck Coal Co.:** 2018-03-09 through 2017-01-27; derived from co-tenure at mine 3610233; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 4
- Typed edges: 7
- Interval anomalies: 2
- 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 0 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 1 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 11 violation rows across the full record; 2 carry an S&S flag and $1,344 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 313 samples:** Occupational health samples 291 coal dust; 3 coal quartz; 19 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 — No published quarter:** Quarterly production and employment The source remains registered, but no mine-keyed quarterly production row was published.
5. **LEGAL — 0 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 0 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 0 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 — 7 since 2021:** Inspections 33 inspection events and 934 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 77.1104 — Accumulations of combustible materials.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1104
- **30 CFR 75.1722 — Mechanical equipment guards.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1722
- **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 75.381 — 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 75.312 — Main mine fan examinations and records.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.312
- **30 CFR 75.1714-2 — Self-rescue devices; use and location requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1714-2
- **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 75.1400 — Hoisting equipment; general.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-O/section-75.1400
- **30 CFR 75.902 — Low- and medium-voltage ground check monitor circuits.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-J/section-75.902
- **30 CFR 50.30 — Preparation and submission of MSHA Form 7000-2—Quarterly Employment and Coal Production Report.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-D/section-50.30

## Source coverage

- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2021-11-22 through 2021-11-22; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 11 rows; 2018-11-15 through 2021-04-14; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 291 rows; 2018-11-08 through 2021-06-18; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 4 rows; 2018-03-09 through 2018-03-09; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 33 rows; 2018-08-20 through 2021-07-01; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 8 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 19 rows; 2018-11-08 through 2021-04-19; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 3 rows; 2019-03-11 through 2019-03-18; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 11 rows; 2018-11-15 through 2021-04-14; 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/broad-mountain-slope-3610233`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/broad-mountain-slope-3610233`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/3610233/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/3610233/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://3610233/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`