# Eagan/King Mountain Surface Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4003196
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Claiborne, TN
- **Operator:** Mountainside Coal Company Inc
- **Controller:** Damian  Caldwell
- **Public source rows linked:** 804
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Damian  Caldwell (0162021) → Mountainside Coal Company Inc (P14783) → Eagan/King Mountain Surface Mine (4003196)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Dan  Chambers et al → Mountainside Coal Company Inc:** 2002-11-19 through 2013-10-06; derived from co-tenure at mine 4003196; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **River Energy JV UK Limited → Mountainside Coal Company Inc:** 2013-10-07 through 2021-04-15; derived from co-tenure at mine 4003196; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Damian  Caldwell → Mountainside Coal Company Inc:** 2021-04-16 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4003196; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 3
- Typed edges: 7
- 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 14 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 543 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 88 violation rows across the full record; 39 carry an S&S flag and $67,798 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 230 samples:** Occupational health samples 148 coal dust; 8 coal quartz; 74 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 — 0 tons:** Quarterly production and employment 0 employee hours and 0 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 70 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 25 contested-violation rows, 25 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 20 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 3 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 26 inspection events and 787 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 77.404 — Machinery and equipment; operation and maintenance.** (6 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.404
- **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 77.1713 — 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 77.1000 — Highwalls, pits and spoil banks; plans.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-K/section-77.1000
- **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

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 14 rows; 2003-10-08 through 2008-10-22; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2009-07-22 through 2009-07-22; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 85 rows; 2003-02-18 through 2009-03-04; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 25 rows; 2009-04-28 through 2011-10-12; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 148 rows; 2003-04-15 through 2009-06-29; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 20 rows; 2008-01-10 through 2008-01-10; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 25 rows; 2007-09-14 through 2009-03-04; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 179 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 44 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 2002-11-19 through 2002-11-19; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 26 rows; 2003-01-13 through 2009-07-14; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 51 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 12 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 74 rows; 2003-05-20 through 2009-03-17; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 8 rows; 2004-03-10 through 2008-09-12; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 88 rows; 2003-02-18 through 2009-03-04; 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/eagan-king-mountain-surface-mine-4003196`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/eagan-king-mountain-surface-mine-4003196`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4003196/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4003196/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4003196/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`