# Whisky Creek No 1 Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4202315
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Carbon, UT
- **Operator:** Lodestar Energy Incorporated
- **Controller:** Iracoal Incorporated
- **Public source rows linked:** 235
- **Source coverage:** 15 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-18T09:31:49.615Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Iracoal Incorporated (C15585) → Lodestar Energy Incorporated (P23722) → Whisky Creek No 1 Mine (4202315)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Iracoal Incorporated → Lodestar Energy Incorporated:** 2001-04-04 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4202315; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 1
- Typed edges: 3
- 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: 2026-10-18T09:31:49.615908+00:00.

## Assessment signals

1. **SAFETY — 0 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 1 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 18 violation rows across the full record; 14 carry an S&S flag and $1,623 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 28 samples:** Occupational health samples 13 coal dust; 5 coal quartz; 10 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 — 25K tons:** Quarterly production and employment 7K employee hours and 22 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 3 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 0 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 3 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 2 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 11 inspection events and 361 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 77.400 — Mechanical equipment guards.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.400
- **30 CFR 72.620 — Drill dust control at surface mines and surface areas of underground mines.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-72/subpart-E/section-72.620
- **30 CFR 77.1104 — Accumulations of combustible materials.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1104
- **30 CFR 77.402 — Hand-held power tools; safety devices.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.402
- **30 CFR 77.1110 — Examination and maintenance of firefighting equipment.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1110
- **30 CFR 77.1710 — Protective clothing; requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-R/section-77.1710
- **30 CFR 77.404 — Machinery and equipment; operation and maintenance.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.404
- **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

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 1 rows; 2003-02-11 through 2003-02-11; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2003-05-28 through 2003-05-28; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 18 rows; 2002-01-14 through 2003-02-10; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 13 rows; 2002-01-14 through 2002-11-05; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 3 rows; 2002-02-26 through 2002-02-26; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 106 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 27 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 2001-04-04 through 2001-04-04; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 11 rows; 2002-01-08 through 2003-04-02; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 14 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 6 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 10 rows; 2002-01-16 through 2002-11-13; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 5 rows; 2002-01-14 through 2002-12-19; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 18 rows; 2002-01-14 through 2003-02-10; 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/whisky-creek-no-1-mine-4202315`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/whisky-creek-no-1-mine-4202315`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4202315/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4202315/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4202315/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`