# No 4

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4405616
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Tazewell, VA
- **Operator:** East Star Mining Inc
- **Controller:** Clinton L  Ramey
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,399
- **Source coverage:** 15 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Clinton L  Ramey (C13597) → East Star Mining Inc (P19887) → No 4 (4405616)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **J E  Cooper → North Branch Coal Company Inc:** 1982-08-01 through 1995-01-10; derived from co-tenure at mine 4405616; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Michael  Adkins → North Branch Coal Company Inc:** 1995-01-11 through 1995-04-18; derived from co-tenure at mine 4405616; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Joyce B  Kretzer → North Branch Coal Company Inc:** 1995-04-19 through 1995-12-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 4405616; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Christopher H  Lyon → North Branch Coal Company Inc:** 1996-01-01 through 1997-08-21; derived from co-tenure at mine 4405616; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Mason  Whited → Black Eagle Inc:** 1997-08-22 through 1998-07-26; derived from co-tenure at mine 4405616; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Eddie W  Foster → North Branch Mining Inc:** 1998-07-27 through 2000-10-23; derived from co-tenure at mine 4405616; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Clinton L  Ramey → East Star Mining Inc:** 2000-10-24 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4405616; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 7
- Typed edges: 21
- 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 4 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 30 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 326 violation rows across the full record; 148 carry an S&S flag and $41,470 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 461 samples:** Occupational health samples 387 coal dust; 51 coal quartz; 23 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 — 4 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 0 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 4 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 1 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 107 inspection events and 3K 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 75.400 — 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 75.364 — Weekly examination.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.364
- **30 CFR 75.603 — Temporary splice of trailing cable.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-G/section-75.603
- **30 CFR 75.503 — Permissible electric face equipment; maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.503
- **30 CFR 75.904 — Identification of circuit breakers.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-J/section-75.904
- **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 75.340 — Underground electrical installations.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.340

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 4 rows; 2000-01-03 through 2003-10-10; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2006-03-30 through 2006-03-30; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 325 rows; 2000-01-05 through 2006-03-16; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 387 rows; 2001-01-16 through 2005-09-21; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 4 rows; 2003-06-05 through 2005-03-01; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 76 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 17 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 7 rows; 1982-08-01 through 2000-10-24; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 107 rows; 2000-01-02 through 2006-03-30; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 58 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 12 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 23 rows; 2001-06-06 through 2005-03-24; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 51 rows; 2001-01-17 through 2004-12-02; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 326 rows; 2000-01-05 through 2006-03-16; 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-4-4405616`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/no-4-4405616`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4405616/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4405616/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4405616/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`