# Kellerman Prep Plant

- **MSHA mine ID:** 0100563
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Tuscaloosa, AL
- **Operator:** Warrior Met Coal Mining, LLC
- **Controller:** Warrior Met Coal Intermediate Holdco LLC
- **Public source rows linked:** 673
- **Source coverage:** 16 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Warrior Met Coal Intermediate Holdco LLC (0124421) → Warrior Met Coal Mining, LLC (0144515) → Kellerman Prep Plant (0100563)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Drummond Company Inc → Drummond Company, Inc.:** 1950-01-01 through 2003-09-14; derived from co-tenure at mine 0100563; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Jerry M  Gaines → Tuscaloosa Resources, Inc.:** 2003-09-15 through 2004-12-21; derived from co-tenure at mine 0100563; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Five J's LLC et al → GreenFuels Processing I, LLC:** 2004-12-22 through 2008-06-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 0100563; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Walter Energy Incorporated → Tuscaloosa Resources, Inc.:** 2007-08-31 through 2004-12-21; derived from co-tenure at mine 0100563; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Headwaters Inc → Covol Fuels No 5 LLC:** 2008-07-01 through 2013-01-15; derived from co-tenure at mine 0100563; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Steve  Rickmeier et al → BRC Greenfuels LLC:** 2013-01-16 through 2016-02-12; derived from co-tenure at mine 0100563; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Virginia Conservation Legacy Fund (VCLF) → Seminole Coal Resources LLC:** 2016-02-13 through 2019-04-29; derived from co-tenure at mine 0100563; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Robert E  Murray → Murray Alabama Minerals, LLC:** 2019-04-30 through 2020-09-16; derived from co-tenure at mine 0100563; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **ACNR Holdings, Inc → Alabama Land Resources, LLC.:** 2020-09-17 through 2022-03-29; derived from co-tenure at mine 0100563; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Warrior Met Coal Intermediate Holdco LLC → Warrior Met Coal Mining, LLC:** 2022-03-30 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 0100563; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 10
- Typed edges: 29
- Interval anomalies: 1
- 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 14 historical accident/injury rows; 1 coded fatalities and 350 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 75 violation rows across the full record; 25 carry an S&S flag and $23,413 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 158 samples:** Occupational health samples 111 coal dust; 2 coal quartz; 45 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 — 6 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 1 contested-violation rows, 1 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 4 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 — 0 since 2021:** Inspections 57 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 77.216-3 — Water, sediment, or slurry impoundments and impounding structures; inspection requirements; correction of hazards; program requirements.** (5 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.216-3
- **30 CFR 48.11 — Hazard training.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-A/section-48.11
- **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 48.29 — Records of training.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-B/section-48.29
- **30 CFR 77.400 — Mechanical equipment guards.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.400
- **30 CFR 77.210 — Hoisting of materials.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.210
- **30 CFR 77.502 — Electric equipment; examination, testing, and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.502

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 14 rows; 2005-02-16 through 2011-11-29; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2015-06-04 through 2015-06-04; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 73 rows; 2005-02-01 through 2012-06-07; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 1 rows; 2006-05-30 through 2006-05-30; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 111 rows; 2005-09-14 through 2011-10-25; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 4 rows; 2005-06-30 through 2006-10-18; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 1 rows; 2005-04-15 through 2005-04-15; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 221 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 33 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 10 rows; 1950-01-01 through 2022-03-30; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 57 rows; 2000-03-15 through 2015-01-27; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 24 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 45 rows; 2005-09-14 through 2011-03-23; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 2 rows; 2007-04-12 through 2011-03-23; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 75 rows; 2005-02-01 through 2012-06-07; 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/kellerman-prep-plant-0100563`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/kellerman-prep-plant-0100563`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/0100563/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/0100563/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://0100563/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`