# Lovers Gap #3

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4406949
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Buchanan, VA
- **Operator:** Paramont Coal Company Virginia LLC
- **Controller:** Alpha Natural Resources, Inc.
- **Public source rows linked:** 2,873
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. (0041211) → Paramont Coal Company Virginia LLC (0050885) → Lovers Gap #3 (4406949)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Pittston Company → Motivation Coal Company:** 1999-03-01 through 2002-12-12; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406949; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. → Paramont Coal Company Virginia LLC:** 2002-12-13 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406949; 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 27 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 465 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 157 violation rows across the full record; 47 carry an S&S flag and $28,088 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 222 samples:** Occupational health samples 142 coal dust; 32 coal quartz; 48 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 4 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 — 11 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 5 contested-violation rows, 5 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 1 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 25 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 65 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 77.506 — Electric equipment and circuits; overload and short-circuit protection.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.506
- **30 CFR 77.1104 — Accumulations of combustible materials.** (4 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1104
- **30 CFR 77.1605 — Loading and haulage equipment; installations.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1605
- **30 CFR 77.1606 — Loading and haulage equipment; inspection and maintenance.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1606
- **30 CFR 77.400 — Mechanical equipment guards.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.400
- **30 CFR 77.404 — Machinery and equipment; operation and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.404
- **30 CFR 48.28 — Annual refresher training of miners; minimum courses of instruction; hours of instruction.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-B/section-48.28
- **30 CFR 77.503 — Electric conductors; capacity and insulation.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.503

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 27 rows; 2000-03-08 through 2009-10-21; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2013-02-27 through 2013-02-27; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 157 rows; 2000-09-09 through 2012-02-17; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 5 rows; 2010-01-12 through 2011-12-12; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 142 rows; 2000-02-29 through 2011-01-11; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 1 rows; 2004-10-19 through 2004-10-19; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 5 rows; 2008-07-28 through 2010-03-10; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 1,792 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 327 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 1999-03-01 through 2002-12-13; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 65 rows; 2000-02-29 through 2013-02-08; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 94 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 17 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 48 rows; 2001-03-12 through 2011-01-11; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 32 rows; 2000-09-06 through 2008-01-16; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 157 rows; 2000-09-09 through 2012-02-17; 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/lovers-gap-3-4406949`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/lovers-gap-3-4406949`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4406949/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4406949/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4406949/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`