# Sands Hill Strip

- **MSHA mine ID:** 3301358
- **Status:** NonProducing
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Vinton, OH
- **Operator:** Carbon River Coal
- **Controller:** Ricky D  Kirk; Jerry  Wells Jr
- **Public source rows linked:** 2,105
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Ricky D  Kirk; Jerry  Wells Jr (C13425) → Carbon River Coal (P21938) → Sands Hill Strip (3301358)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Alan  Arthur et al → Sands Hill Coal Co., Inc.:** 1950-01-01 through 2007-12-14; derived from co-tenure at mine 3301358; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Wexford Capital LLC → Sands Hill Mining LLC:** 2007-12-15 through 2010-10-04; derived from co-tenure at mine 3301358; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Rhino Resource Partners LP → Sands Hill Mining LLC:** 2010-10-05 through 2017-11-07; derived from co-tenure at mine 3301358; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **SF Contracting LLC → Sands Hill Mining LLC:** 2017-11-08 through 2022-05-15; derived from co-tenure at mine 3301358; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Jerry  Wells Jr  et al → Carbon River Coal:** 2022-05-16 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3301358; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Ricky D  Kirk  et al → Carbon River Coal:** 2022-05-16 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 3301358; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 6
- 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: 2026-10-17T05:35:58.500035+00:00.

## Assessment signals

1. **SAFETY — 1 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 34 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 182 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 16 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 101 violation rows across the full record; 11 carry an S&S flag and $16,090 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 616 samples:** Occupational health samples 412 coal dust; 20 coal quartz; 184 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 24 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 — 125K tons:** Quarterly production and employment 61K employee hours and 98 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 7 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 2 contested-violation rows, 2 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 3 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 — 40 since 2021:** Inspections 147 inspection events and 5K 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 50.20-1 — General instructions for completing MSHA Form 7000-1.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-C/section-50.20-1
- **30 CFR 62.120 — Action level.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-M/part-62/section-62.120
- **30 CFR 50.30 — Preparation and submission of MSHA Form 7000-2—Quarterly Employment and Coal Production Report.** (4 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-D/section-50.30
- **30 CFR 77.215 — Refuse piles; construction requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.215
- **30 CFR 77.216-3 — Water, sediment, or slurry impoundments and impounding structures; inspection requirements; correction of hazards; program requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.216-3
- **30 CFR 77.216 — Water, sediment, or slurry impoundments and impounding structures; general.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.216
- **30 CFR 77.1110 — Examination and maintenance of firefighting equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1110
- **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 77.216-4 — Water, sediment or slurry impoundments and impounding structures; reporting requirements; certification.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.216-4

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 34 rows; 2000-01-31 through 2025-09-30; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2024-11-18 through 2024-11-18; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 100 rows; 2000-03-15 through 2026-09-01; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 2 rows; 2012-01-30 through 2012-10-10; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 412 rows; 2000-03-15 through 2025-06-19; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 3 rows; 2000-04-20 through 2012-10-10; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 2 rows; 2009-12-22 through 2011-08-02; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 821 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 165 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 6 rows; 1950-01-01 through 2022-05-16; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 147 rows; 2000-03-14 through 2026-09-01; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 36 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 70 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 184 rows; 2000-03-15 through 2025-03-19; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 20 rows; 2002-01-08 through 2018-07-18; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 101 rows; 2000-03-15 through 2026-09-01; 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/sands-hill-strip-3301358`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/sands-hill-strip-3301358`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/3301358/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/3301358/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://3301358/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`