# King William

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4406882
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Clay, Ceramic, Refractory Mnls.
- **Location:** King William, VA
- **Operator:** Nestle Purina PetCare Company
- **Controller:** Nestle S A
- **Public source rows linked:** 6,086
- **Source coverage:** 15 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Nestle S A (0041035) → Nestle Purina PetCare Company (0050705) → King William (4406882)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Ralston Purina Company → Ralston Purina Company:** 1997-07-01 through 2002-01-11; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406882; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Nestle S A → Nestle Purina PetCare Company:** 2002-01-12 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406882; 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 — 8 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 77 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 512 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 70 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 579 violation rows across the full record; 175 carry an S&S flag and $186,599 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 89 samples:** Occupational health samples 89 personal. 7 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 0 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 42K employee hours and 76 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 109 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 42 contested-violation rows, 42 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 25 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 45 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 — 16 since 2021:** Inspections 101 inspection events and 5K 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 62.130 — Permissible exposure level.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-M/part-62/section-62.130
- **30 CFR 56.20003 — Housekeeping.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-S/section-56.20003
- **30 CFR 56.14112 — Construction and maintenance of guards.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14112
- **30 CFR 56.14107 — Moving machine parts.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14107
- **30 CFR 56.14205 — Machinery, equipment, and tools.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14205
- **30 CFR 56.12032 — Inspection and cover plates.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12032
- **30 CFR 50.30 — Preparation and submission of MSHA Form 7000-2—Quarterly Employment and Coal Production Report.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-D/section-50.30
- **30 CFR 56.14100 — Safety defects; examination, correction and records.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14100
- **30 CFR 56.14101 — Brakes.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14101

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 77 rows; 2000-06-14 through 2025-10-22; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 1997-07-31 through 1997-07-31; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 560 rows; 2000-04-25 through 2026-03-12; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 42 rows; 2006-05-24 through 2020-11-12; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Conferences:** 25 rows; 2001-01-30 through 2021-12-07; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 42 rows; 2005-10-04 through 2020-03-04; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 3,507 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 746 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 1997-07-01 through 2002-01-12; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 101 rows; 2000-02-24 through 2026-10-06; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 255 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 59 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Metal and Nonmetal Personal Health Samples:** 89 rows; 2001-01-11 through 2026-09-22; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 579 rows; 2000-04-25 through 2026-09-22; 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/king-william-4406882`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/king-william-4406882`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4406882/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4406882/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4406882/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`