# King Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4202157
- **Status:** Temporarily Idled
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Carbon, UT
- **Operator:** Hiawatha Coal Company Inc
- **Controller:** Elliot  Finley
- **Public source rows linked:** 327
- **Source coverage:** 14 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Elliot  Finley (C15691) → Hiawatha Coal Company Inc (P23921) → King Mine (4202157)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Mueller Industries Inc → United States Fuel Company:** 1996-12-01 through 1997-09-08; derived from co-tenure at mine 4202157; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Elliot  Finley → Hiawatha Coal Company Inc:** 1997-09-09 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4202157; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 2
- Typed edges: 6
- 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 0 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 2 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 32 violation rows across the full record; 7 carry an S&S flag and $8,924 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 15 samples:** Occupational health samples 11 coal dust; 1 coal quartz; 3 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 0 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 40 employee hours and 1 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 16 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 8 contested-violation rows, 7 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 1 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 — 8 since 2021:** Inspections 48 inspection events and 528 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 77.216-1 — Water, sediment or slurry impoundments and impounding structures; identification.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.216-1
- **30 CFR 77.1605 — Loading and haulage equipment; installations.** (4 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1605
- **30 CFR 77.1607 — Loading and haulage equipment; operation.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1607
- **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 77.1104 — 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 77.1713 — Daily inspection of surface coal mine; certified person; reports of inspection.** (2 retained recent rows) — 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.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-K/section-77.1000
- **30 CFR 77.404 — Machinery and equipment; operation and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.404

## Source coverage

- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2025-02-13 through 2025-02-13; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 32 rows; 2005-09-29 through 2024-04-23; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 7 rows; 2009-07-30 through 2017-07-14; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 11 rows; 2013-08-20 through 2025-02-06; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 1 rows; 2008-02-04 through 2008-02-04; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 8 rows; 2007-06-15 through 2016-03-02; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 1996-12-01 through 1997-09-09; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 48 rows; 2000-03-29 through 2025-02-05; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 155 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 25 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 3 rows; 2013-08-20 through 2025-02-06; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 1 rows; 2024-04-24 through 2024-04-24; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 32 rows; 2005-09-29 through 2024-04-23; 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/king-mine-4202157`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/king-mine-4202157`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4202157/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4202157/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4202157/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`