# Merritt Rogers Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 0102760
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Jefferson, AL
- **Operator:** M S & R Equipment Company Inc
- **Controller:** Michael T  Costello
- **Public source rows linked:** 800
- **Source coverage:** 14 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Michael T  Costello (0149901) → M S & R Equipment Company Inc (P21363) → Merritt Rogers Mine (0102760)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Costain Group PLC → Costain Coal Inc:** 1988-02-01 through 1996-01-01; derived from co-tenure at mine 0102760; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Timothy L  McCoy → Alabama Land & Mineral Corp:** 1996-01-02 through 1999-01-11; derived from co-tenure at mine 0102760; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Hallmark Mary → Hallmark Land Llc:** 1999-01-12 through 2000-11-02; derived from co-tenure at mine 0102760; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Kendall  Robison et al → M S & R Equipment Company Inc:** 2000-11-03 through 2017-08-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 0102760; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Otis R  Robison et al → M S & R Equipment Company Inc:** 2000-11-03 through 2017-08-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 0102760; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Freddy  Hunt et al → M S & R Equipment Company Inc:** 2017-09-01 through 2019-07-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 0102760; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Michael T  Costello et al → M S & R Equipment Company Inc:** 2017-09-01 through 2019-07-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 0102760; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Michael T  Costello → M S & R Equipment Company Inc:** 2019-08-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 0102760; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 8
- Typed edges: 18
- 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 28 violation rows across the full record; 8 carry an S&S flag and $2,325 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 186 samples:** Occupational health samples 145 coal dust; 15 coal quartz; 26 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 2 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 0 employee hours and 0 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 1 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 0 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 1 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 39 inspection events and 459 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 77.410 — Mobile equipment; automatic warning devices.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.410
- **30 CFR 77.1606 — Loading and haulage equipment; inspection and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1606
- **30 CFR 77.1605 — Loading and haulage equipment; installations.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1605
- **30 CFR 77.1110 — Examination and maintenance of firefighting equipment.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1110
- **30 CFR 77.1713 — Daily inspection of surface coal mine; certified person; reports of inspection.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-R/section-77.1713
- **30 CFR 77.409 — Shovels, draglines, and tractors.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.409
- **30 CFR 71.400 — Bathing facilities; change rooms; sanitary flush toilet facilities.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-71/subpart-E/section-71.400
- **30 CFR 72.620 — Drill dust control at surface mines and surface areas of underground mines.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-72/subpart-E/section-72.620

## Source coverage

- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2008-01-03 through 2008-01-03; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 28 rows; 2001-06-30 through 2007-09-06; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 145 rows; 2001-07-02 through 2007-09-06; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 1 rows; 2003-03-06 through 2003-03-06; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 389 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 87 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 8 rows; 1988-02-01 through 2000-11-03; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 39 rows; 2001-06-30 through 2008-01-31; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 25 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 7 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 26 rows; 2001-07-02 through 2007-02-22; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 15 rows; 2001-07-02 through 2005-08-02; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 28 rows; 2001-06-30 through 2007-09-06; 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/merritt-rogers-mine-0102760`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/merritt-rogers-mine-0102760`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/0102760/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/0102760/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://0102760/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`