# Briceville Plant

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4001138
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Facility / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Anderson, TN
- **Operator:** Premium Coal Company Inc
- **Controller:** James C  Justice III
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,390
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**James C  Justice III (0171761) → Premium Coal Company Inc (P02174) → Briceville Plant (4001138)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Robert  Swisher et al → Premium Coal Company Inc:** 1950-01-01 through 2008-09-11; derived from co-tenure at mine 4001138; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **James C  Justice II et al → Premium Coal Company Inc:** 2008-09-12 through 2017-05-03; derived from co-tenure at mine 4001138; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Jillean L  Justice et al → Premium Coal Company Inc:** 2017-05-04 through 2022-08-23; derived from co-tenure at mine 4001138; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **James C  Justice lll et al → Premium Coal Company Inc:** 2017-05-04 through 2022-08-23; derived from co-tenure at mine 4001138; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **James C  Justice III → Premium Coal Company Inc:** 2022-08-24 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4001138; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 5
- 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 7 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 309 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 234 violation rows across the full record; 65 carry an S&S flag and $95,295 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 158 samples:** Occupational health samples 99 coal dust; 6 coal quartz; 53 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 7 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 3K employee hours and 10 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 81 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 40 contested-violation rows, 40 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 1 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 — 0 since 2021:** Inspections 71 inspection events and 2K 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 77.1708 — Safety program; instruction of persons employed at the mine.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-R/section-77.1708
- **30 CFR 77.1109 — Quantity and location of firefighting equipment.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1109
- **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 77.502 — Electric equipment; examination, testing, and maintenance.** (4 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.502
- **30 CFR 71.403 — Waiver of surface facilities requirements; posting of waiver.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-71/subpart-E/section-71.403
- **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 77.504 — Electrical connections or splices; suitability.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.504

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 7 rows; 2000-11-08 through 2010-08-14; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2020-03-17 through 2020-03-17; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 223 rows; 2000-05-11 through 2014-05-01; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 40 rows; 2010-05-27 through 2013-11-12; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 99 rows; 2000-03-08 through 2009-09-18; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 1 rows; 2009-03-03 through 2009-03-03; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 40 rows; 2009-01-06 through 2012-07-30; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 469 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 101 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 5 rows; 1950-01-01 through 1950-01-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 71 rows; 2000-05-10 through 2019-10-01; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 18 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 21 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 53 rows; 2000-07-21 through 2009-09-18; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 6 rows; 2000-07-21 through 2006-11-13; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 234 rows; 2000-05-11 through 2014-05-01; 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/briceville-plant-4001138`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/briceville-plant-4001138`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4001138/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4001138/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4001138/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`