# Southern Crescent Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4406777
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Russell, VA
- **Operator:** Omega Mining, Inc.
- **Controller:** (Harold) Lynn  Keene; Larry  Stinson
- **Public source rows linked:** 337
- **Source coverage:** 14 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**(Harold) Lynn  Keene; Larry  Stinson (C04140) → Omega Mining, Inc. (0052677) → Southern Crescent Mine (4406777)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **(Harold) Lynn  Keene et al → Harold Keene Coal Company Inc:** 1994-09-01 through 2001-05-24; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406777; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Larry  Stinson et al → Harold Keene Coal Company Inc:** 1994-09-01 through 2001-05-24; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406777; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Dick J  Plaster → D J Coal Inc:** 2001-05-25 through 2004-04-12; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406777; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **(Harold) Lynn  Keene et al → Harold Keene Coal Company Inc:** 2004-04-13 through 2004-06-07; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406777; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Larry  Stinson et al → Harold Keene Coal Company Inc:** 2004-04-13 through 2004-06-07; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406777; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **(Harold) Lynn  Keene et al → Omega Mining, Inc.:** 2004-06-08 through 2004-12-05; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406777; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Larry  Stinson et al → Omega Mining, Inc.:** 2004-06-08 through 2004-12-05; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406777; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Dick J  Plaster → Harvest-Time Coal Inc:** 2004-12-06 through 2006-03-05; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406777; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Larry  Stinson et al → Omega Mining, Inc.:** 2006-03-06 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406777; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **(Harold) Lynn  Keene et al → Omega Mining, Inc.:** 2006-03-06 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406777; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **SunCoke Energy Incorporated → Harold Keene Coal Company Inc:** 2012-01-17 through 2001-05-24; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406777; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **SunCoke Energy Incorporated → Harold Keene Coal Company Inc:** 2012-01-17 through 2004-06-07; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406777; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Jeffery A  Hoops → Harold Keene Coal Company Inc:** 2018-08-21 through 2001-05-24; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406777; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Jeffery A  Hoops → Harold Keene Coal Company Inc:** 2018-08-21 through 2004-06-07; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406777; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 14
- Typed edges: 26
- Interval anomalies: 4
- 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 9 historical accident/injury rows; 1 coded fatalities and 2 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 33 violation rows across the full record; 5 carry an S&S flag and $2,003 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 85 samples:** Occupational health samples 80 coal dust; 5 coal quartz. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 0 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 7K employee hours and 10 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 1 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 0 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 1 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 34 inspection events and 895 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 75.1100-2 — 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 75.701 — Grounding metallic frames, casings, and other enclosures of electric equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-H/section-75.701
- **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
- **30 CFR 75.403 — Maintenance of incombustible content of rock dust.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-E/section-75.403
- **30 CFR 75.518-1 — Electric equipment and circuits; overload and short circuit protection; minimum requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.518-1
- **30 CFR 75.1107-16 — Inspection of fire suppression devices.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-L/section-75.1107-16
- **30 CFR 75.400 — Accumulation of combustible materials.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-E/section-75.400
- **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 77.205 — Travelways at surface installations.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.205
- **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 77.904 — Identification of circuit breakers.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-J/section-77.904

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 9 rows; 2001-07-19 through 2004-11-30; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2006-08-11 through 2006-08-11; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 32 rows; 2001-08-16 through 2005-06-24; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 80 rows; 2001-08-16 through 2005-07-26; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 1 rows; 2004-11-30 through 2004-11-30; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 81 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 13 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 14 rows; 1994-09-01 through 2006-03-06; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 34 rows; 2001-06-27 through 2006-06-15; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 27 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 6 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 5 rows; 2001-09-13 through 2005-05-24; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 33 rows; 2001-08-16 through 2005-06-24; 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/southern-crescent-mine-4406777`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/southern-crescent-mine-4406777`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4406777/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4406777/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4406777/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`