# Sunshine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4000328
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Claiborne, TN
- **Operator:** Straight Creek Mining Inc
- **Controller:** Ronnie H  Carroll
- **Public source rows linked:** 314
- **Source coverage:** 12 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Ronnie H  Carroll (C15233) → Straight Creek Mining Inc (P23106) → Sunshine (4000328)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Shattuck Tom N → Shattuck Coal Company:** 1950-01-01 through 1975-05-15; derived from co-tenure at mine 4000328; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **K Q  Chedester → Colquest Energy Inc:** 1975-05-16 through 2000-05-14; derived from co-tenure at mine 4000328; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Ronnie H  Carroll → Straight Creek Mining Inc:** 2000-05-15 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4000328; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 3
- Typed edges: 9
- 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 15 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 649 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 12 violation rows across the full record; 3 carry an S&S flag and $857 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 183 samples:** Occupational health samples 161 coal dust; 9 coal quartz; 13 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 4 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 — 3K tons:** Quarterly production and employment 8K employee hours and 17 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 — 0 since 2021:** Inspections 40 inspection events and 953 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 75.1204 — Mine closure; filing of map with Secretary.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-M/section-75.1204
- **30 CFR 75.900-1 — Circuit breakers; location.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-J/section-75.900-1
- **30 CFR 75.333 — Ventilation controls.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.333
- **30 CFR 75.1702-1 — Smoking programs.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1702-1
- **30 CFR 47.54 — Availability of an MSDS.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-47/subpart-F/section-47.54
- **30 CFR 75.523 — Electric face equipment; deenergization.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.523
- **30 CFR 75.364 — Weekly examination.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.364
- **30 CFR 75.342 — Methane monitors.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.342
- **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 77.516 — Electric wiring and equipment; installation and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.516
- **30 CFR 49.2 — Availability of mine rescue teams.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-49/subpart-A/section-49.2

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 15 rows; 2001-04-20 through 2003-03-20; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2003-07-18 through 2003-07-18; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 12 rows; 2001-04-05 through 2003-07-15; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 161 rows; 2001-01-08 through 2003-02-19; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 1950-01-01 through 2000-05-15; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 40 rows; 2000-08-08 through 2003-07-15; 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:** 11 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 13 rows; 2001-02-09 through 2002-09-09; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 9 rows; 2001-07-10 through 2003-02-19; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 12 rows; 2001-04-05 through 2003-07-15; 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/sunshine-4000328`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/sunshine-4000328`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4000328/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4000328/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4000328/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`