# Mine No 2

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4401696
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Wise, VA
- **Operator:** Fork Ridge Coal Corp
- **Controller:** Massey Energy Company
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,133
- **Source coverage:** 16 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Massey Energy Company (C02508) → Fork Ridge Coal Corp (P23582) → Mine No 2 (4401696)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Westmoreland Coal Company → Westmoreland Coal Company:** 1950-01-01 through 2000-02-23; derived from co-tenure at mine 4401696; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Cumberland Resources Corporation → Fork Ridge Coal Corp:** 2000-02-24 through 2010-04-18; derived from co-tenure at mine 4401696; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Massey Energy Company → Fork Ridge Coal Corp:** 2010-04-19 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4401696; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 3
- Typed edges: 8
- 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 19 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 199 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 84 violation rows across the full record; 46 carry an S&S flag and $9,565 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 297 samples:** Occupational health samples 238 coal dust; 42 coal quartz; 17 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 5 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 — 13K tons:** Quarterly production and employment 6K employee hours and 28 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 4 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 1 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 64 inspection events and 1K 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 75.1100-3 — Condition and examination of firefighting equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-L/section-75.1100-3
- **30 CFR 75.400 — Accumulation of combustible materials.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-E/section-75.400
- **30 CFR 75.401 — Abatement of dust; water or water with a wetting agent.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-E/section-75.401
- **30 CFR 75.1722 — Mechanical equipment guards.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1722
- **30 CFR 70.101 — [Reserved]** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-70/subpart-B/section-70.101
- **30 CFR 75.1100-2 — Quantity and location of firefighting equipment.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-L/section-75.1100-2
- **30 CFR 75.1101-3 — Water requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-L/section-75.1101-3
- **30 CFR 75.312 — Main mine fan examinations and records.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.312
- **30 CFR 75.388 — Boreholes in advance of mining.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.388
- **30 CFR 75.202 — Protection from falls of roof, face and ribs.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-C/section-75.202

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 19 rows; 2000-03-10 through 2002-07-21; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2002-08-28 through 2002-08-28; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 83 rows; 2000-04-06 through 2002-07-08; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 1 rows; 2002-02-05 through 2002-02-05; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 238 rows; 2000-04-19 through 2002-06-27; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 3 rows; 2000-09-07 through 2000-09-12; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 453 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 96 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 1950-01-01 through 2000-02-24; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 64 rows; 2000-03-14 through 2002-07-22; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 22 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:** 17 rows; 2000-04-12 through 2001-05-02; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 42 rows; 2000-05-02 through 2002-05-21; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 84 rows; 2000-04-06 through 2002-07-08; 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/mine-no-2-4401696`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/mine-no-2-4401696`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4401696/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4401696/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4401696/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`