# DC-36

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4406759
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Buchanan, VA
- **Operator:** Sons Energy, LLC.
- **Controller:** Danny K Justice; Lori A Brinager; Cecil T Brinager
- **Public source rows linked:** 13,899
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Danny K Justice; Lori A Brinager; Cecil T Brinager (0149121) → Sons Energy, LLC. (0164793) → DC-36 (4406759)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Sunoco, Inc. → Dominion Coal Corporation:** 1994-04-01 through 2012-01-16; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406759; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **SunCoke Energy Incorporated → Dominion Coal Corporation:** 2012-01-17 through 2015-09-28; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406759; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Steven T  Ratliff et al → Maverick Coal Inc.:** 2015-09-29 through 2019-06-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406759; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Noah L  Vandyke et al → Maverick Coal Inc.:** 2015-09-29 through 2019-06-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406759; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Danny K Justice et al → Sons Energy, LLC.:** 2019-07-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406759; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Cecil T Brinager et al → Sons Energy, LLC.:** 2019-07-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406759; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Lori A Brinager et al → Sons Energy, LLC.:** 2019-07-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406759; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 7
- Typed edges: 14
- 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 90 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 1,797 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 3,622 violation rows across the full record; 1,085 carry an S&S flag and $2,234,446 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 4K samples:** Occupational health samples 3,611 coal dust; 292 coal quartz; 200 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 41 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 — 1,420 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 658 contested-violation rows, 659 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 103 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 4 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 544 inspection events and 28K 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 77.502 — Electric equipment; examination, testing, and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.502
- **30 CFR 77.1103 — Flammable liquids; storage.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1103
- **30 CFR 77.1110 — Examination and maintenance of firefighting equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1110
- **30 CFR 77.1605 — Loading and haulage equipment; installations.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1605
- **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
- **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 75.903 — Disconnecting devices.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-J/section-75.903
- **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 75.518 — Electric equipment and circuits; overload and short circuit protection.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.518
- **30 CFR 75.601-1 — Short circuit protection; ratings and settings of circuit breakers.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-G/section-75.601-1

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 90 rows; 2000-01-11 through 2015-05-22; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2023-08-16 through 2023-08-16; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 3,576 rows; 2000-01-18 through 2016-10-07; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 659 rows; 2000-08-21 through 2016-06-02; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 3,611 rows; 2000-01-04 through 2014-12-11; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 103 rows; 2000-03-28 through 2014-12-22; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 658 rows; 2007-04-05 through 2015-06-08; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 298 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 76 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 7 rows; 1994-04-01 through 2019-07-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 544 rows; 2000-01-05 through 2020-01-31; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 130 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 31 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 200 rows; 2000-03-15 through 2014-06-17; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 292 rows; 2000-01-05 through 2014-12-11; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 3,622 rows; 2000-01-18 through 2016-10-07; 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/dc-36-4406759`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/dc-36-4406759`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4406759/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4406759/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4406759/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`