# Deep Mine # 7

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4406503
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Wise, VA
- **Operator:** Paramont Coal Company Virginia, LLC
- **Controller:** Alpha Natural Resources, Inc.
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,252
- **Source coverage:** 13 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. (0041211) → Paramont Coal Company Virginia, LLC (0050885) → Deep Mine # 7 (4406503)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Lawson Truman Dale → Tdl Coal Company Inc:** 1989-03-01 through 2000-02-06; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406503; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **El Paso Energy Corp → Coastal Coal Company, LLC:** 2000-02-07 through 2003-01-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406503; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. → Paramont Coal Company Virginia, LLC:** 2003-02-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406503; 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 21 historical accident/injury rows; 1 coded fatalities and 219 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 200 violation rows across the full record; 62 carry an S&S flag and $17,947 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 604 samples:** Occupational health samples 520 coal dust; 37 coal quartz; 47 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 11 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 — 9 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 0 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 9 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 139 inspection events and 4K 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 75.321 — Air quality.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.321
- **30 CFR 75.1103-9 — Minimum requirements; fire suppression materials and location; maintenance of entries and crosscuts; access doors; communications; fire crews; high-expansion foam devices.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-L/section-75.1103-9
- **30 CFR 75.370 — Mine ventilation plan; submission and approval.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.370
- **30 CFR 75.606 — Protection of trailing cables.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-G/section-75.606
- **30 CFR 75.310 — Installation of main mine fans.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.310
- **30 CFR 70.208 — Quarterly sampling; mechanized mining units.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-70/subpart-C/section-70.208
- **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
- **30 CFR 77.1607 — Loading and haulage equipment; operation.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1607
- **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 75.506 — Electric face equipment; requirements for permissibility.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.506

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 21 rows; 2000-05-25 through 2005-08-23; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2006-06-14 through 2006-06-14; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 190 rows; 2000-04-20 through 2006-04-07; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 520 rows; 2000-05-03 through 2006-01-18; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 9 rows; 2000-08-23 through 2006-04-24; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 1989-03-01 through 2003-02-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 139 rows; 2000-02-17 through 2006-04-03; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 66 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 18 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 47 rows; 2000-04-26 through 2005-06-01; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 37 rows; 2000-05-03 through 2005-11-29; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 200 rows; 2000-04-20 through 2006-04-07; 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/deep-mine-7-4406503`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/deep-mine-7-4406503`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4406503/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4406503/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4406503/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`