# Guest Mountain Mine No 2

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4406807
- **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:** 1,157
- **Source coverage:** 15 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. (0041211) → Paramont Coal Company Virginia, LLC (0050885) → Guest Mountain Mine No 2 (4406807)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Cumberland Resources Corporation → Guest Mountain Mining Corp:** 1995-09-01 through 1997-05-26; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406807; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **El Paso Energy Corp → Coastal Coal Company, LLC:** 1997-05-27 through 2003-01-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406807; 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 4406807; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Massey Energy Company → Guest Mountain Mining Corp:** 2010-04-19 through 1997-05-26; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406807; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. → Guest Mountain Mining Corp:** 2011-06-01 through 1997-05-26; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406807; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 5
- Typed edges: 13
- Interval anomalies: 2
- 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 23 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 604 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 183 violation rows across the full record; 64 carry an S&S flag and $17,675 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 542 samples:** Occupational health samples 469 coal dust; 58 coal quartz; 15 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 4 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 — 9K tons:** Quarterly production and employment 9K employee hours and 39 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 10 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 0 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 10 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 98 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 75.1711 — Sealing of mines.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1711
- **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 75.208 — Warning devices.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-C/section-75.208
- **30 CFR 77.208 — Storage of materials.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.208
- **30 CFR 75.503 — Permissible electric face equipment; maintenance.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.503
- **30 CFR 75.202 — Protection from falls of roof, face and ribs.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-C/section-75.202
- **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 72.630 — Drill dust control at underground areas of underground mines.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-72/subpart-E/section-72.630
- **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

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 23 rows; 2000-03-02 through 2004-02-24; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2005-05-20 through 2005-05-20; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 182 rows; 2000-01-28 through 2004-08-16; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 469 rows; 2000-01-05 through 2004-04-21; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 10 rows; 2003-03-05 through 2004-08-31; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 45 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 12 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 5 rows; 1995-09-01 through 2003-02-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 98 rows; 2000-01-04 through 2004-10-28; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 43 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 12 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 15 rows; 2001-07-30 through 2003-09-11; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 58 rows; 2000-01-05 through 2004-04-21; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 183 rows; 2000-01-28 through 2004-08-16; 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/guest-mountain-mine-no-2-4406807`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/guest-mountain-mine-no-2-4406807`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4406807/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4406807/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4406807/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`