# Carbon Hill Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 0103389
- **Status:** NonProducing
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Walker, AL
- **Operator:** CLAS COAL COMPANY INC.
- **Controller:** William Ridley  Elkins Jr
- **Public source rows linked:** 6,718
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**William Ridley  Elkins Jr (C15664) → CLAS COAL COMPANY INC. (P22559) → Carbon Hill Mine (0103389)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Ronald S  Bryant et al → Prospect Mining and Development Company, Inc.:** 2008-05-09 through 2016-12-18; derived from co-tenure at mine 0103389; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Sandton Credit Solutions Master Fund IV, LP → Prospect Mining and Development Company,LLC:** 2016-12-19 through 2017-05-20; derived from co-tenure at mine 0103389; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Jeffrey K Justus II → Z & J Operating, LLC:** 2017-05-21 through 2019-12-03; derived from co-tenure at mine 0103389; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Sandton Credit Solutions Master Fund IV, LP → Prospect Mining & Development LLC:** 2019-12-04 through 2020-01-29; derived from co-tenure at mine 0103389; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **William Ridley  Elkins Jr → CLAS COAL COMPANY INC.:** 2020-01-30 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 0103389; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 5
- Typed edges: 14
- 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 — 9 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 24 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 116 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 329 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 686 violation rows across the full record; 169 carry an S&S flag and $221,514 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 4K samples:** Occupational health samples 3,347 coal dust; 175 coal quartz; 195 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 52 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 — 5K tons:** Quarterly production and employment 12K employee hours and 25 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 239 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 108 contested-violation rows, 108 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 23 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 4 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 — 41 since 2021:** Inspections 238 inspection events and 12K published inspection hours across the historical record.

## EIA annual operating context

- **Reporting year:** 2024
- **Production:** 120,633 short tons
- **Labor hours:** 68,118
- **Average employees:** 30
- **Coal supply region:** Appalachia Southern
- **Union code:** Not published
- **Published rows under this MSHA ID:** 1

## Recent Title 30 crosswalk

Snapshot current through 2026-08-19.

- **30 CFR 75.1714-6 — Emergency tethers.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1714-6
- **30 CFR 75.503 — Permissible electric face equipment; maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.503
- **30 CFR 75.1914 — Maintenance of diesel-powered equipment.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-T/section-75.1914
- **30 CFR 75.517 — Power wires and cables; insulation and protection.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.517
- **30 CFR 75.400 — Accumulation of combustible materials.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-E/section-75.400
- **30 CFR 72.630 — Drill dust control at underground areas of underground mines.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-72/subpart-E/section-72.630
- **30 CFR 75.904 — Identification of circuit breakers.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-J/section-75.904
- **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

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 24 rows; 2010-11-17 through 2025-10-17; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2026-06-30 through 2026-06-30; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 668 rows; 2009-10-20 through 2025-12-15; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 108 rows; 2013-07-24 through 2026-05-15; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 3,347 rows; 2010-12-06 through 2026-01-04; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 23 rows; 2014-03-13 through 2024-03-26; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 108 rows; 2012-10-04 through 2025-11-14; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 770 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 194 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 5 rows; 2008-05-09 through 2020-01-30; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 238 rows; 2009-01-15 through 2026-10-06; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 140 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 35 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 195 rows; 2011-02-09 through 2025-12-10; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 175 rows; 2011-10-25 through 2025-12-13; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 686 rows; 2009-10-20 through 2025-12-15; 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/carbon-hill-mine-0103389`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/carbon-hill-mine-0103389`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/0103389/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/0103389/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://0103389/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`