# Kopper Glo Preparation Plant

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4001038
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Facility / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Claiborne, TN
- **Operator:** Kopper Glo Mining, LLC
- **Controller:** Industrial Minerals Group LLC
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,887
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Industrial Minerals Group LLC (0145041) → Kopper Glo Mining, LLC (0101206) → Kopper Glo Preparation Plant (4001038)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Robert E  Haden et al → Kopper Glo Fuel Inc:** 1950-01-01 through 2007-07-26; derived from co-tenure at mine 4001038; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Keith D  Dyke → Kopper Glo Fuel Inc:** 2007-07-27 through 2017-05-17; derived from co-tenure at mine 4001038; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Quintana Capital Group GP Ltd et al → Kopper Glo Mining, LLC:** 2017-05-18 through 2018-12-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 4001038; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Industrial Minerals Group LLC → Kopper Glo Mining, LLC:** 2018-12-31 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4001038; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 4
- Typed edges: 10
- 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 — 0 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 10 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 168 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 3 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 290 violation rows across the full record; 69 carry an S&S flag and $37,440 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 528 samples:** Occupational health samples 324 coal dust; 18 coal quartz; 186 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 31 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 11K employee hours and 17 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 50 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 24 contested-violation rows, 24 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 2 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 10 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 — 8 since 2021:** Inspections 135 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 77.1606 — Loading and haulage equipment; inspection and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1606
- **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 77.502 — Electric equipment; examination, testing, and maintenance.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.502
- **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 77.205 — Travelways at surface installations.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.205
- **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
- **30 CFR 77.1605 — Loading and haulage equipment; installations.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1605
- **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 77.1109 — 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 77.512 — Inspection and cover plates.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.512

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 10 rows; 2000-08-31 through 2018-11-06; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2023-11-08 through 2023-11-08; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 285 rows; 2000-03-20 through 2021-03-02; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 24 rows; 2010-11-19 through 2013-12-30; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 324 rows; 2000-02-17 through 2020-06-18; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 2 rows; 2013-12-11 through 2018-01-04; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 24 rows; 2009-09-16 through 2013-03-27; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 426 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 94 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 4 rows; 1950-01-01 through 2017-05-18; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 135 rows; 2000-03-20 through 2023-11-07; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 24 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 39 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 186 rows; 2000-06-20 through 2020-06-18; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 18 rows; 2002-08-06 through 2020-06-18; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 290 rows; 2000-03-20 through 2021-03-02; 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/kopper-glo-preparation-plant-4001038`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/kopper-glo-preparation-plant-4001038`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4001038/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4001038/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4001038/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`