# Carbon Hill Prep Plant

- **MSHA mine ID:** 0103426
- **Status:** NonProducing
- **Type / commodity:** Facility / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Walker, AL
- **Operator:** Prospect Mining & Development Co., LLC
- **Controller:** Sandton Credit Solutions Master Fund IV, LP
- **Public source rows linked:** 336
- **Source coverage:** 13 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Sandton Credit Solutions Master Fund IV, LP (0133941) → Prospect Mining & Development Co., LLC (0151473) → Carbon Hill Prep Plant (0103426)**

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 → Warrior Investment Co., Inc.:** 2010-02-25 through 2016-12-18; derived from co-tenure at mine 0103426; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Sandton Credit Solutions Master Fund IV, LP → Prospect Mining & Development Co., LLC:** 2016-12-19 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 0103426; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 2
- Typed edges: 6
- 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 — 1 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 1 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 48 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 58 violation rows across the full record; 25 carry an S&S flag and $29,532 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 70 samples:** Occupational health samples 42 coal dust; 28 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 — 0 tons:** Quarterly production and employment 0 employee hours and 0 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 44 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 22 contested-violation rows, 22 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 — 20 since 2021:** Inspections 28 inspection events and 423 published inspection hours across the historical record.

## EIA annual operating context

- **Reporting year:** 2024
- **Production:** 0 short tons
- **Labor hours:** 23,578
- **Average employees:** 9
- **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 77.1110 — Examination and maintenance of firefighting equipment.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1110
- **30 CFR 77.1710 — Protective clothing; requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-R/section-77.1710
- **30 CFR 77.205 — Travelways at surface installations.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.205
- **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
- **30 CFR 47.41 — Requirement for container labels.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-47/subpart-E/section-47.41
- **30 CFR 77.512 — Inspection and cover plates.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.512
- **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 77.410 — Mobile equipment; automatic warning devices.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.410
- **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

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 1 rows; 2022-12-31 through 2022-12-31; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2026-06-30 through 2026-06-30; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 56 rows; 2019-05-10 through 2024-10-16; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 22 rows; 2020-11-06 through 2025-06-16; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 42 rows; 2019-08-20 through 2025-05-09; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Contested Violations:** 22 rows; 2020-04-28 through 2024-10-16; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 2010-02-25 through 2016-12-19; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 28 rows; 2018-11-04 through 2026-10-06; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 65 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 10 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 28 rows; 2019-08-20 through 2025-05-09; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Violations:** 58 rows; 2019-05-10 through 2024-10-16; 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-prep-plant-0103426`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/carbon-hill-prep-plant-0103426`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/0103426/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/0103426/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://0103426/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`