# Meridian Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4406856
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Buchanan, VA
- **Operator:** Calico Coal Inc
- **Controller:** Cecil T  Brinager
- **Public source rows linked:** 121
- **Source coverage:** 14 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Cecil T  Brinager (0112921) → Calico Coal Inc (P19835) → Meridian Mine (4406856)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Ernest E  Varney et al → Calico Coal Inc:** 1996-10-01 through 2012-06-18; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406856; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Estate of Ernest E Varney → Calico Coal Inc:** 2012-06-19 through 2014-04-14; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406856; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Cecil T  Brinager → Calico Coal Inc:** 2014-04-15 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406856; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 3
- Typed edges: 7
- 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 0 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 14 violation rows across the full record; 4 carry an S&S flag and $1,003 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 30 samples:** Occupational health samples 24 coal dust; 2 coal quartz; 4 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 2 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 — 5K tons:** Quarterly production and employment 6K employee hours and 18 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 1 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 1 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 0 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 2 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 10 inspection events and 156 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 75.362 — On-shift examination.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.362
- **30 CFR 48.31 — Hazard training.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-B/section-48.31
- **30 CFR 48.11 — Hazard training.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-A/section-48.11
- **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 75.400 — 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 75.1722 — Mechanical equipment guards.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1722

## Source coverage

- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2000-06-06 through 2000-06-06; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 14 rows; 2000-03-08 through 2000-11-01; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 1 rows; 2000-10-19 through 2000-10-19; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 24 rows; 2000-01-25 through 2000-04-24; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 30 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 9 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 1996-10-01 through 1996-10-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 10 rows; 2000-01-05 through 2000-11-01; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 5 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 3 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 4 rows; 2000-03-13 through 2000-03-13; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 2 rows; 2000-03-16 through 2000-04-04; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 14 rows; 2000-03-08 through 2000-11-01; 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/meridian-mine-4406856`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/meridian-mine-4406856`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4406856/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4406856/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4406856/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`