# Silver Creek Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4406895
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Tazewell, VA
- **Operator:** Sea
- **Controller:** Pittston Company
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,068
- **Source coverage:** 16 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Pittston Company (C00230) → Sea (P15944) → Silver Creek Mine (4406895)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Pittston Company → Sea B Mining Company:** 1997-10-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406895; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 1
- Typed edges: 3
- 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 27 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 438 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 143 violation rows across the full record; 55 carry an S&S flag and $14,880 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 526 samples:** Occupational health samples 456 coal dust; 55 coal quartz; 15 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 — 0 tons:** Quarterly production and employment 0 employee hours and 0 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 10 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 2 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 8 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 1 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 178 inspection events and 3K 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 75.518-1 — Electric equipment and circuits; overload and short circuit protection; minimum requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.518-1
- **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 77.512 — Inspection and cover plates.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.512
- **30 CFR 75.403 — Maintenance of incombustible content of rock dust.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-E/section-75.403
- **30 CFR 75.220 — Roof control plan.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-C/section-75.220
- **30 CFR 75.400 — Accumulation of combustible materials.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-E/section-75.400
- **30 CFR 75.1107-1 — Fire-resistant hydraulic fluids and fire suppression devices on underground equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-L/section-75.1107-1
- **30 CFR 75.517 — Power wires and cables; insulation and protection.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.517

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 27 rows; 2000-01-04 through 2002-06-19; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2003-11-12 through 2003-11-12; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 141 rows; 2000-01-19 through 2003-02-27; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 2 rows; 2000-07-17 through 2001-11-08; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 456 rows; 2000-01-03 through 2002-06-14; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 8 rows; 2000-08-11 through 2001-09-14; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 1997-10-01 through 1997-10-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 178 rows; 2000-01-03 through 2003-03-27; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 31 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 7 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 15 rows; 2001-02-22 through 2002-03-12; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 55 rows; 2000-01-03 through 2002-05-14; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 143 rows; 2000-01-19 through 2003-02-27; 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/silver-creek-mine-4406895`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/silver-creek-mine-4406895`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4406895/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4406895/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4406895/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`