# Paw Paw Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4406685
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Buchanan, VA
- **Operator:** Banner Blue Coal Company
- **Controller:** Metinvest B V
- **Public source rows linked:** 6,541
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Metinvest B V (0085453) → Banner Blue Coal Company (P21542) → Paw Paw Mine (4406685)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **United  Company → Wellmore Coal Corp:** 1992-02-01 through 1992-04-26; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406685; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Roger  Coleman → Raider Mining Inc:** 1992-04-27 through 1995-11-28; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406685; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **United  Company → Valley Coal Corp:** 1995-11-29 through 1997-08-25; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406685; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Massey Energy Company → Valley Coal Corp:** 1997-08-26 through 1998-05-25; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406685; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Gary A  Horn → Raintree Coal Company:** 1998-05-26 through 2001-09-25; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406685; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Sam  Blankenship → S & B Coal Corporation:** 2001-09-26 through 2005-10-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406685; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Sam  Blankenship → Banner Blue Coal Company:** 2005-11-01 through 2006-01-22; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406685; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Gary A  Horn → Banner Blue Coal Company:** 2005-11-01 through 2005-10-19; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406685; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **United  Company → Banner Blue Coal Company:** 2006-01-23 through 2009-04-29; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406685; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Metinvest B V → Banner Blue Coal Company:** 2009-04-30 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406685; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 10
- Typed edges: 27
- Interval anomalies: 1
- 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 53 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 1,448 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 1,753 violation rows across the full record; 461 carry an S&S flag and $1,190,127 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 2K samples:** Occupational health samples 1,664 coal dust; 120 coal quartz; 137 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 18 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 706 employee hours and 2 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 541 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 230 contested-violation rows, 229 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 82 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 6 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 119 inspection events and 13K 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 77.1605 — 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 77.400 — Mechanical equipment guards.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.400
- **30 CFR 75.364 — Weekly examination.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.364
- **30 CFR 75.1714-7 — Multi-gas detectors.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1714-7
- **30 CFR 75.512 — Electric equipment; examination, testing and maintenance.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.512
- **30 CFR 75.1107-9 — Dry chemical devices; capacity; minimum requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-L/section-75.1107-9
- **30 CFR 75.507-1 — Electric equipment other than power-connection points; outby the last open crosscut; return air; permissibility requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.507-1
- **30 CFR 75.523-1 — Deenergization of self-propelled electric face equipment installation requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.523-1
- **30 CFR 75.514 — Electrical connections or splices; suitability.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.514
- **30 CFR 75.1403 — Other safeguards.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-O/section-75.1403

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 53 rows; 2006-06-12 through 2015-10-24; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2016-09-12 through 2016-09-12; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 1,736 rows; 2001-08-01 through 2016-04-19; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 229 rows; 2010-07-20 through 2015-01-29; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 1,664 rows; 2005-05-17 through 2015-12-01; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 82 rows; 2006-01-05 through 2015-09-02; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 230 rows; 2007-12-19 through 2013-10-02; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 283 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 77 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 10 rows; 1992-02-01 through 2005-11-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 119 rows; 2000-01-06 through 2016-10-03; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 17 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 29 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 137 rows; 2005-06-06 through 2015-09-02; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 120 rows; 2005-11-17 through 2015-11-17; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 1,753 rows; 2001-08-01 through 2016-04-19; 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/paw-paw-mine-4406685`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/paw-paw-mine-4406685`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4406685/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4406685/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4406685/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`