# Deep Mine #29

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4406959
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Wise, VA
- **Operator:** Paramont Coal Corporation
- **Controller:** Pittston Company
- **Public source rows linked:** 224
- **Source coverage:** 11 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Pittston Company (C00230) → Paramont Coal Corporation (P17909) → Deep Mine #29 (4406959)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Pittston Company → Paramont Coal Corp:** 1999-05-01 through 2001-07-16; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406959; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Rocky  Hill → Apple Jacks Coal Company Inc:** 2001-07-17 through 2002-03-12; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406959; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Pittston Company → Paramont Coal Corporation:** 2002-03-13 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406959; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Cecil  Nichols → Apple Jacks Coal Company Inc:** 2010-01-20 through 2002-03-12; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406959; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 4
- Typed edges: 10
- Interval anomalies: 1
- 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 1 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 21 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 28 violation rows across the full record; 11 carry an S&S flag and $1,947 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 101 samples:** Occupational health samples 93 coal dust; 8 coal quartz. 0 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 0 employee hours and 0 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 0 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 0 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 0 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 0 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 35 inspection events and 579 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 75.606 — Protection of trailing cables.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-G/section-75.606
- **30 CFR 75.364 — Weekly examination.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.364
- **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 75.512-2 — Frequency of examinations.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.512-2
- **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
- **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 75.523 — Electric face equipment; deenergization.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.523
- **30 CFR 72.630 — Drill dust control at underground areas of underground mines.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-72/subpart-E/section-72.630
- **30 CFR 75.504 — Permissibility of new, replacement, used, reconditioned, additional, and rebuilt electric face equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.504
- **30 CFR 77.206 — Ladders; construction; installation and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.206
- **30 CFR 75.1100-2 — Quantity and location of firefighting equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-L/section-75.1100-2

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 1 rows; 2000-11-04 through 2000-11-04; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2003-01-28 through 2003-01-28; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 28 rows; 2000-11-08 through 2002-06-18; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 93 rows; 2000-10-23 through 2002-06-19; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 4 rows; 1999-05-01 through 2002-03-13; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 35 rows; 2000-08-25 through 2003-01-07; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 19 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 6 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 8 rows; 2000-11-22 through 2002-05-02; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 28 rows; 2000-11-08 through 2002-06-18; 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/deep-mine-29-4406959`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/deep-mine-29-4406959`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4406959/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4406959/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4406959/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`