# No 16

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4404887
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Wise, VA
- **Operator:** Har-Lee Coal Company Inc
- **Controller:** Theodore  Yates
- **Public source rows linked:** 331
- **Source coverage:** 12 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Theodore  Yates (C00706) → Har-Lee Coal Company Inc (P20052) → No 16 (4404887)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Fraley Jerry L → Chris Ellen Coal Company Inc:** 1977-10-01 through 1993-08-02; derived from co-tenure at mine 4404887; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Westmoreland Coal Company → Westmoreland Coal Company:** 1993-08-03 through 2000-09-21; derived from co-tenure at mine 4404887; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Theodore  Yates et al → Har-Lee Coal Company Inc:** 2000-09-22 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4404887; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 3
- Typed edges: 9
- 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 6 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 50 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 54 violation rows across the full record; 23 carry an S&S flag and $4,450 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 141 samples:** Occupational health samples 118 coal dust; 14 coal quartz; 9 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 1 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 — 0 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 0 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 0 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 — 0 since 2021:** Inspections 45 inspection events and 838 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 75.1711 — Sealing of mines.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1711
- **30 CFR 75.1725 — Machinery and equipment; operation and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1725
- **30 CFR 75.503 — Permissible electric face equipment; maintenance.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.503
- **30 CFR 75.220 — Roof control plan.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-C/section-75.220
- **30 CFR 70.100 — Respirable dust standards.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-70/subpart-B/section-70.100
- **30 CFR 75.403 — Maintenance of incombustible content of rock dust.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-E/section-75.403
- **30 CFR 75.1100-2 — Quantity and location of firefighting equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-L/section-75.1100-2
- **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 75.701 — Grounding metallic frames, casings, and other enclosures of electric equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-H/section-75.701

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 6 rows; 2001-03-30 through 2002-11-15; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2003-06-06 through 2003-06-06; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 54 rows; 2001-04-10 through 2003-06-04; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 118 rows; 2001-04-18 through 2003-01-15; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 1977-10-01 through 2000-09-22; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 45 rows; 2001-02-27 through 2003-04-28; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 20 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:** 9 rows; 2001-04-11 through 2002-09-30; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 14 rows; 2001-08-28 through 2002-12-21; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 54 rows; 2001-04-10 through 2003-06-04; 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/no-16-4404887`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/no-16-4404887`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4404887/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4404887/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4404887/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`