# AUGER NO. 144

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1519807
- **Status:** Temporarily Idled
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Boone, WV
- **Operator:** DENALI ENERGY GROUP LLC
- **Controller:** Conrad  Whitaker; Jonathan  Whitaker
- **Public source rows linked:** 72
- **Source coverage:** 10 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Conrad  Whitaker; Jonathan  Whitaker (0096553) → DENALI ENERGY GROUP LLC (0113905) → AUGER NO. 144 (1519807)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Matthew S Bolling et al → RESOURCE MANAGEMENT & RECOVERY LLC:** 2017-03-08 through 2018-12-23; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519807; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Rebecca F Bolling et al → RESOURCE MANAGEMENT & RECOVERY LLC:** 2017-03-08 through 2018-12-23; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519807; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Jonathan  Whitaker et al → DENALI ENERGY GROUP LLC:** 2018-12-24 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519807; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Conrad  Whitaker et al → DENALI ENERGY GROUP LLC:** 2018-12-24 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1519807; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 4
- Typed edges: 8
- 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 10 violation rows across the full record; 2 carry an S&S flag and $1,327 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 26 samples:** Occupational health samples 13 coal dust; 13 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 — 2K tons:** Quarterly production and employment 1K employee hours and 2 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
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 — 1 since 2021:** Inspections 14 inspection events and 215 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 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 77.1109 — Quantity and location of firefighting equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1109
- **30 CFR 41.11 — Notification by operator.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-G/part-41/subpart-B/section-41.11
- **30 CFR 72.100 — Periodic examinations.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-72/subpart-B/section-72.100
- **30 CFR 47.51 — Requirement for an MSDS.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-47/subpart-F/section-47.51
- **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 77.208 — Storage of materials.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.208
- **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 77.1501 — Auger mining; inspections.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-P/section-77.1501

## Source coverage

- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2020-05-07 through 2020-05-07; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 10 rows; 2017-04-05 through 2019-06-26; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 13 rows; 2017-04-11 through 2019-10-23; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 4 rows; 2017-03-08 through 2018-12-24; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 14 rows; 2017-04-05 through 2024-09-27; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 4 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 2 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 13 rows; 2017-04-11 through 2019-10-23; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Violations:** 10 rows; 2017-04-05 through 2019-06-26; 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/auger-no-144-1519807`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/auger-no-144-1519807`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1519807/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1519807/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1519807/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`
