# Stoker

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4405971
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Facility / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Wise, VA
- **Operator:** Red River Coal Company Inc
- **Controller:** William D  Humphreys
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,148
- **Source coverage:** 16 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**William D  Humphreys (C01665) → Red River Coal Company Inc (P16682) → Stoker (4405971)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **William D  Humphreys et al → Red River Coal Company Inc:** 1982-12-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4405971; 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: 2026-10-17T05:35:58.500035+00:00.

## Assessment signals

1. **SAFETY — 0 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 9 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 249 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 4 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 159 violation rows across the full record; 55 carry an S&S flag and $22,956 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 182 samples:** Occupational health samples 126 coal dust; 1 coal quartz; 55 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 3K employee hours and 5 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 50 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 25 contested-violation rows, 25 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 0 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 7 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 — 4 since 2021:** Inspections 75 inspection events and 2K 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 77.1606 — Loading and haulage equipment; inspection and maintenance.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1606
- **30 CFR 77.1605 — Loading and haulage equipment; installations.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1605
- **30 CFR 77.410 — Mobile equipment; automatic warning devices.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.410
- **30 CFR 77.400 — Mechanical equipment guards.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.400
- **30 CFR 77.1102 — Warning signs; smoking and open flame.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1102
- **30 CFR 77.1104 — Accumulations of combustible materials.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1104
- **30 CFR 77.1608 — Dumping facilities.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1608

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 9 rows; 2000-07-31 through 2018-12-12; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2022-11-18 through 2022-11-18; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 159 rows; 2001-03-22 through 2021-06-29; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 25 rows; 2012-01-31 through 2019-02-11; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 126 rows; 2000-03-01 through 2021-06-30; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Contested Violations:** 25 rows; 2010-07-12 through 2018-06-14; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 397 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 80 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 1982-12-01 through 1982-12-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 75 rows; 2000-05-17 through 2022-04-14; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 12 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 22 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 55 rows; 2001-09-25 through 2021-06-30; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 1 rows; 2021-06-30 through 2021-06-30; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 159 rows; 2001-03-22 through 2021-06-29; 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/stoker-4405971`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/stoker-4405971`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4405971/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4405971/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4405971/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`