# Meridian #2

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4401486
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Buchanan, VA
- **Operator:** Calico Coal Inc
- **Controller:** Cecil T  Brinager
- **Public source rows linked:** 6,436
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Cecil T  Brinager (0112921) → Calico Coal Inc (P19835) → Meridian #2 (4401486)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Pittston Company → Jewell Ridge Coal Corp:** 1950-01-01 through 1988-08-02; derived from co-tenure at mine 4401486; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Ashby James M Et Al → Double A Mining Inc:** 1988-08-03 through 1989-07-20; derived from co-tenure at mine 4401486; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Jessie  Meadows → Lucky J Coal Company Inc:** 1989-07-21 through 2003-10-13; derived from co-tenure at mine 4401486; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Ernest E  Varney et al → Calico Coal Inc:** 2003-10-14 through 2012-06-18; derived from co-tenure at mine 4401486; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Estate of Ernest E Varney → Calico Coal Inc:** 2012-06-19 through 2014-04-14; derived from co-tenure at mine 4401486; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Cecil T  Brinager → Calico Coal Inc:** 2014-04-15 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4401486; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 6
- Typed edges: 16
- 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 8 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 944 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 1,441 violation rows across the full record; 392 carry an S&S flag and $852,367 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 2K samples:** Occupational health samples 2,247 coal dust; 114 coal quartz; 119 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 13 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 — 147 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 38 contested-violation rows, 38 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 71 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 4 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 186 inspection events and 13K 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 77.502 — Electric equipment; examination, testing, and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.502
- **30 CFR 70.208 — Quarterly sampling; mechanized mining units.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-70/subpart-C/section-70.208
- **30 CFR 75.1731 — Maintenance of belt conveyors and belt conveyor entries.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1731
- **30 CFR 75.400 — Accumulation of combustible materials.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-E/section-75.400
- **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 75.1403 — Other safeguards.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-O/section-75.1403

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 8 rows; 2004-08-17 through 2017-02-22; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2020-12-08 through 2020-12-08; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 1,424 rows; 2004-01-13 through 2020-01-29; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 38 rows; 2011-03-30 through 2018-04-12; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 2,247 rows; 2003-12-30 through 2019-06-29; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 71 rows; 2014-07-15 through 2019-02-06; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 38 rows; 2009-11-09 through 2017-05-15; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 380 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 107 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 6 rows; 1950-01-01 through 2003-10-14; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 186 rows; 2003-10-20 through 2020-12-03; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 204 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 51 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 119 rows; 2004-09-23 through 2019-02-05; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 114 rows; 2004-01-27 through 2019-05-29; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 1,441 rows; 2004-01-13 through 2020-01-29; 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/meridian-2-4401486`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/meridian-2-4401486`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4401486/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4401486/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4401486/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`