# Blair Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4406855
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Tazewell, VA
- **Operator:** Sea
- **Controller:** Pittston Company
- **Public source rows linked:** 262
- **Source coverage:** 12 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Pittston Company (C00230) → Sea (P15944) → Blair Mine (4406855)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Pittston Company → Sea B Mining Company:** 1996-10-01 through 2000-02-24; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406855; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Bill D  Calloway → C & O Mining Company Inc:** 2000-02-25 through 2001-01-16; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406855; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Pittston Company → Sea B Mining Company:** 2001-01-17 through 2001-02-12; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406855; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Leonard W  Mullins → Magnum Energy Inc:** 2001-02-13 through 2003-02-16; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406855; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Pittston Company → Sea B" Mining Company ":** 2003-02-17 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406855; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 5
- Typed edges: 13
- 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 5 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 45 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 45 violation rows across the full record; 24 carry an S&S flag and $3,410 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 105 samples:** Occupational health samples 85 coal dust; 15 coal quartz; 5 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 1 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 1K employee hours and 3 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 0 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 0 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 0 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 27 inspection events and 606 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 75.900 — Low- and medium-voltage circuits serving three-phase alternating current equipment; circuit breakers.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-J/section-75.900
- **30 CFR 75.902 — Low- and medium-voltage ground check monitor circuits.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-J/section-75.902
- **30 CFR 75.503 — Permissible electric face equipment; maintenance.** (4 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.503
- **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 77.1109 — Quantity and location of firefighting equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1109
- **30 CFR 75.1712-6 — Underground sanitary facilities; installation and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1712-6
- **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 75.203 — Mining methods.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-C/section-75.203
- **30 CFR 75.523-3 — Automatic emergency-parking brakes.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.523-3

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 5 rows; 2000-07-19 through 2003-03-20; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2003-09-25 through 2003-09-25; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 45 rows; 2000-05-23 through 2001-08-07; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 85 rows; 2000-05-22 through 2001-08-07; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 5 rows; 1996-10-01 through 2003-02-17; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 27 rows; 2000-03-21 through 2003-06-26; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 23 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 5 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 5 rows; 2000-06-14 through 2000-06-14; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 15 rows; 2000-05-25 through 2001-08-06; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 45 rows; 2000-05-23 through 2001-08-07; 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/blair-mine-4406855`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/blair-mine-4406855`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4406855/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4406855/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4406855/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`