# Cherokee Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4406864
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Dickenson, VA
- **Operator:** Dickenson-Russell Coal Co LLC
- **Controller:** Alpha Natural Resources, Inc.
- **Public source rows linked:** 11,903
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. (0041211) → Dickenson-Russell Coal Co LLC (0050878) → Cherokee Mine (4406864)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Pittston Company → Clinchfield Coal Company:** 1997-01-01 through 2002-12-12; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406864; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. → Dickenson-Russell Coal Co LLC:** 2002-12-13 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406864; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 2
- Typed edges: 6
- 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 151 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 4,305 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 2,720 violation rows across the full record; 929 carry an S&S flag and $1,718,276 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 3K samples:** Occupational health samples 3,000 coal dust; 232 coal quartz; 218 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 64 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 — 1,681 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 746 contested-violation rows, 747 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 188 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 641 inspection events and 24K 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 75.512 — Electric equipment; examination, testing and maintenance.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.512
- **30 CFR 75.322 — Harmful quantities of noxious gases.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.322
- **30 CFR 75.333 — Ventilation controls.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.333
- **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 77.1110 — Examination and maintenance of firefighting equipment.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1110
- **30 CFR 75.360 — Preshift examination at fixed intervals.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.360
- **30 CFR 75.1403 — Other safeguards.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-O/section-75.1403

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 151 rows; 2000-01-19 through 2016-06-20; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2015-03-30 through 2015-03-30; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 2,678 rows; 2000-03-02 through 2014-12-12; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 747 rows; 2003-11-13 through 2016-01-29; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 3,000 rows; 2000-01-03 through 2014-06-09; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 188 rows; 2000-10-18 through 2015-01-07; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 746 rows; 2007-07-24 through 2014-08-18; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 359 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 57 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 1997-01-01 through 2002-12-13; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 641 rows; 2000-02-09 through 2015-03-27; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 132 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 30 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 218 rows; 2000-03-08 through 2013-09-10; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 232 rows; 2000-01-03 through 2014-05-01; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 2,720 rows; 2000-03-02 through 2014-12-12; 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/cherokee-mine-4406864`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/cherokee-mine-4406864`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4406864/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4406864/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4406864/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`