# Mine No. 38

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4406876
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Buchanan, VA
- **Operator:** Dominion Coal Corporation
- **Controller:** SunCoke Energy Incorporated
- **Public source rows linked:** 961
- **Source coverage:** 15 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**SunCoke Energy Incorporated (0104093) → Dominion Coal Corporation (P10904) → Mine No. 38 (4406876)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Sunoco, Inc. → Dominion Coal Corporation:** 1997-10-01 through 2010-08-29; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406876; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Gary  Dotson  et al → Cavalier Mineral, Inc.:** 2010-08-30 through 2011-01-26; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406876; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Perry Allen  Whited → SANW, Inc.:** 2011-01-27 through 2014-09-23; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406876; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **SunCoke Energy Incorporated → Dominion Coal Corporation:** 2012-01-17 through 2010-08-29; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406876; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **SunCoke Energy Incorporated → Dominion Coal Corporation:** 2014-09-24 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406876; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Sunoco, Inc. → Dominion Coal Corporation:** 2014-09-24 through 2012-01-16; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406876; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 6
- Typed edges: 14
- 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 0 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 113 violation rows across the full record; 41 carry an S&S flag and $16,573 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 318 samples:** Occupational health samples 270 coal dust; 10 coal quartz; 38 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 5 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 — 666 tons:** Quarterly production and employment 2K employee hours and 8 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 40 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 20 contested-violation rows, 20 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 47 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 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 48.3 — Training plans; time of submission; where filed; information required; time for approval; method for disapproval; commencement of training; approval of instructors.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-A/section-48.3
- **30 CFR 75.342 — Methane monitors.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.342
- **30 CFR 75.523-2 — Deenergization of self-propelled electric face equipment; performance requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.523-2
- **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 75.370 — Mine ventilation plan; submission and approval.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.370
- **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
- **30 CFR 75.403 — Maintenance of incombustible content of rock dust.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-E/section-75.403

## Source coverage

- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2015-02-09 through 2015-02-09; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 110 rows; 2010-09-13 through 2014-12-11; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 20 rows; 2012-01-09 through 2013-12-17; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 270 rows; 2011-03-14 through 2014-06-04; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Contested Violations:** 20 rows; 2011-02-24 through 2013-04-02; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 219 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 61 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 6 rows; 1997-10-01 through 2014-09-24; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 47 rows; 2010-09-10 through 2015-01-21; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 37 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 8 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 38 rows; 2011-03-14 through 2014-04-23; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 10 rows; 2011-05-16 through 2014-01-27; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 113 rows; 2010-09-13 through 2014-12-11; 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/mine-no-38-4406876`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/mine-no-38-4406876`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4406876/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4406876/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4406876/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`