# Low Splint No 1 Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4406883
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Wise, VA
- **Operator:** Meadow Branch Mining Corporation
- **Controller:** Alpha Natural Resources, Inc.
- **Public source rows linked:** 2,291
- **Source coverage:** 16 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. (0041211) → Meadow Branch Mining Corporation (P23867) → Low Splint No 1 Mine (4406883)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Cumberland Resources Corporation → Meadow Branch Mining Corporation:** 1997-07-01 through 2010-04-18; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406883; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Massey Energy Company → Meadow Branch Mining Corporation:** 2010-04-19 through 2011-05-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406883; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. → Meadow Branch Mining Corporation:** 2011-06-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406883; 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: 2026-10-17T05:35:58.500035+00:00.

## Assessment signals

1. **SAFETY — 0 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 52 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 910 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 385 violation rows across the full record; 157 carry an S&S flag and $50,304 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 910 samples:** Occupational health samples 756 coal dust; 126 coal quartz; 28 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 10 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 — 70K tons:** Quarterly production and employment 21K employee hours and 36 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 16 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 2 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 14 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 3 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 141 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 75.512 — Electric equipment; examination, testing and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.512
- **30 CFR 75.1714-3 — Self-rescue devices; inspection, testing, maintenance, repair, and recordkeeping.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1714-3
- **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 77.1110 — Examination and maintenance of firefighting equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1110
- **30 CFR 75.334 — Worked-out areas and areas where pillars are being recovered.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.334
- **30 CFR 75.503 — Permissible electric face equipment; maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — 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 75.202 — Protection from falls of roof, face and ribs.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-C/section-75.202
- **30 CFR 75.364 — Weekly examination.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.364
- **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 75.400 — 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

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 52 rows; 2000-01-19 through 2007-01-23; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2007-03-05 through 2007-03-05; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 373 rows; 2000-01-11 through 2007-02-07; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 2 rows; 2003-03-27 through 2003-03-27; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 756 rows; 2000-01-11 through 2006-09-12; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 14 rows; 2000-11-30 through 2006-04-12; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 306 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 64 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 1997-07-01 through 1997-07-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 141 rows; 2000-01-03 through 2007-01-10; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 24 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 15 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 28 rows; 2000-03-13 through 2006-09-12; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 126 rows; 2000-01-11 through 2006-06-02; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 385 rows; 2000-01-11 through 2007-02-07; 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/low-splint-no-1-mine-4406883`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/low-splint-no-1-mine-4406883`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4406883/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4406883/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4406883/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`