# Roaring Fork No. 3

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4406975
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Dickenson, VA
- **Operator:** Dickenson-Russell Coal Company, LLC
- **Controller:** Alpha Natural Resources, Inc.
- **Public source rows linked:** 2,677
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. (0041211) → Dickenson-Russell Coal Company, LLC (0050878) → Roaring Fork No. 3 (4406975)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Pittston Company → Clinchfield Coal Company:** 1999-12-01 through 2002-12-12; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406975; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. → Dickenson-Russell Coal Company, LLC:** 2002-12-13 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406975; 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 91 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 1,784 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 343 violation rows across the full record; 112 carry an S&S flag and $35,524 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 1K samples:** Occupational health samples 1,188 coal dust; 158 coal quartz; 104 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 58 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 — 29 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 6 contested-violation rows, 9 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 14 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 219 inspection events and 7K 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 75.515 — Cable fittings; suitability.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.515
- **30 CFR 75.904 — Identification of circuit breakers.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-J/section-75.904
- **30 CFR 50.20 — Preparation and submission of MSHA Report Form 7000-1—Mine Accident, Injury, and Illness Report.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-C/section-50.20
- **30 CFR 75.203 — Mining methods.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-C/section-75.203
- **30 CFR 75.220 — Roof control plan.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-C/section-75.220
- **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 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 77.509 — Transformers; installation and guarding.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.509
- **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
- **30 CFR 75.1107-4 — Automatic fire sensors and manual actuators; installation; minimum requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-L/section-75.1107-4
- **30 CFR 75.370 — Mine ventilation plan; submission and approval.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.370

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 91 rows; 2000-03-31 through 2006-08-01; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2006-09-11 through 2006-09-11; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 331 rows; 2000-04-04 through 2006-08-01; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 9 rows; 2001-03-23 through 2009-05-14; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 1,188 rows; 2000-04-24 through 2006-06-14; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 14 rows; 2000-04-25 through 2006-08-29; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 6 rows; 2004-01-08 through 2006-07-10; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 120 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 21 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 1999-12-01 through 2002-12-13; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 219 rows; 2000-02-16 through 2008-08-28; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 55 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 14 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 104 rows; 2000-04-18 through 2006-06-12; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 158 rows; 2000-05-24 through 2006-06-05; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 343 rows; 2000-04-04 through 2006-08-01; 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/roaring-fork-no-3-4406975`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/roaring-fork-no-3-4406975`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4406975/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4406975/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4406975/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`