# No.1 Strip & Auger

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4407010
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Buchanan, VA
- **Operator:** Balor Enterprises LLC
- **Controller:** Joe  Ballard
- **Public source rows linked:** 128
- **Source coverage:** 14 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Joe  Ballard (C15923) → Balor Enterprises LLC (P24392) → No.1 Strip & Auger (4407010)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Joe  Ballard → Balor Enterprises LLC:** 2000-10-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4407010; 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 1 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 9 violation rows across the full record; 3 carry an S&S flag and $579 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 15 samples:** Occupational health samples 7 coal dust; 3 coal quartz; 5 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 2 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 — 72 tons:** Quarterly production and employment 2K employee hours and 5 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 — 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 13 inspection events and 135 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 48.31 — Hazard training.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-B/section-48.31
- **30 CFR 71.400 — Bathing facilities; change rooms; sanitary flush toilet facilities.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-71/subpart-E/section-71.400
- **30 CFR 77.1501 — Auger mining; inspections.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-P/section-77.1501
- **30 CFR 77.410 — Mobile equipment; automatic warning devices.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.410
- **30 CFR 62.120 — Action level.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-M/part-62/section-62.120
- **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 77.1000 — Highwalls, pits and spoil banks; plans.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-K/section-77.1000

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 1 rows; 2002-02-14 through 2002-02-14; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2002-09-23 through 2002-09-23; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 9 rows; 2001-04-11 through 2002-03-12; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 7 rows; 2001-01-29 through 2002-03-07; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 46 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 13 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 2000-10-01 through 2000-10-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 13 rows; 2000-10-27 through 2002-09-23; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 14 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 5 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 5 rows; 2001-05-24 through 2002-03-07; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 3 rows; 2001-05-24 through 2002-03-07; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 9 rows; 2001-04-11 through 2002-03-12; 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/no-1-strip-auger-4407010`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/no-1-strip-auger-4407010`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4407010/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4407010/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4407010/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`