# Devils Br.

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4407005
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Buchanan, VA
- **Operator:** Banner Blue Coal Company
- **Controller:** Metinvest B V
- **Public source rows linked:** 121
- **Source coverage:** 6 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Metinvest B V (0085453) → Banner Blue Coal Company (P21542) → Devils Br. (4407005)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Charles  Childress et al → Childress Construction & Trucking:** 2000-08-01 through 2000-11-29; derived from co-tenure at mine 4407005; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **TECO Energy Inc → Clintwood Elkhorn Mining Company Inc:** 2000-11-30 through 2001-05-29; derived from co-tenure at mine 4407005; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Corbin Eugene  Cline → B C & C Coal Inc:** 2001-05-30 through 2010-10-06; derived from co-tenure at mine 4407005; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Robin Roy Belcher → P.B. Dirtmovers:** 2010-10-07 through 2011-12-06; derived from co-tenure at mine 4407005; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Metinvest B V → Banner Blue Coal Company:** 2011-12-07 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4407005; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **United  Company → Banner Blue Coal Company:** 2011-12-07 through 2009-04-29; derived from co-tenure at mine 4407005; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Sam  Blankenship → Banner Blue Coal Company:** 2011-12-07 through 2006-01-22; derived from co-tenure at mine 4407005; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Gary A  Horn → Banner Blue Coal Company:** 2011-12-07 through 2005-10-19; derived from co-tenure at mine 4407005; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **James H  Booth et al → Clintwood Elkhorn Mining Company Inc:** 2015-09-21 through 2001-05-29; derived from co-tenure at mine 4407005; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **J Mark  Campbell → Clintwood Elkhorn Mining Company Inc:** 2019-06-16 through 2001-05-29; derived from co-tenure at mine 4407005; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 10
- Typed edges: 25
- Interval anomalies: 5
- 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 0 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 1 violation rows across the full record; 1 carry an S&S flag and $0 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 0 samples:** Occupational health samples No published samples. 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 33 inspection events and 151 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.

No retained recent violation standard resolved to the current Title 30 index.

## Source coverage

- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2021-10-15 through 2021-10-15; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 10 rows; 2000-08-01 through 2011-12-07; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 33 rows; 2000-09-25 through 2020-02-05; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 75 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Violations:** 1 rows; 2001-07-05 through 2001-07-05; 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/devils-br-4407005`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/devils-br-4407005`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4407005/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4407005/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4407005/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`