# Mine No. 4

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4407048
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Wise, VA
- **Operator:** Hubble Mining Company LLC
- **Controller:** Harold E  Akers; Jim D  Akers
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,612
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Harold E  Akers; Jim D  Akers (C02535) → Hubble Mining Company LLC (0050049) → Mine No. 4 (4407048)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Charles D  Mullins → Commonwealth Mining Corporation, No2:** 2002-04-24 through 2004-03-09; derived from co-tenure at mine 4407048; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Harold E  Akers et al → Hubble Mining Company LLC:** 2004-03-10 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4407048; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Jim D  Akers et al → Hubble Mining Company LLC:** 2004-03-10 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4407048; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 3
- Typed edges: 7
- 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 5 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 189 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 347 violation rows across the full record; 130 carry an S&S flag and $58,639 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 483 samples:** Occupational health samples 417 coal dust; 29 coal quartz; 37 noise. 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 — 17K tons:** Quarterly production and employment 6K employee hours and 20 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 208 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 102 contested-violation rows, 102 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 4 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 87 inspection events and 3K 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 75.370 — Mine ventilation plan; submission and approval.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.370
- **30 CFR 75.364 — Weekly examination.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.364
- **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 75.604 — Permanent splicing of trailing cables.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-G/section-75.604
- **30 CFR 75.512 — Electric equipment; examination, testing and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.512
- **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 75.503 — Permissible electric face equipment; maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.503
- **30 CFR 75.204 — Roof bolting.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-C/section-75.204
- **30 CFR 75.215 — Longwall mining systems.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-C/section-75.215
- **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

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 5 rows; 2003-08-13 through 2007-10-16; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2008-09-11 through 2008-09-11; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 342 rows; 2002-06-26 through 2008-08-12; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 102 rows; 2005-07-19 through 2010-08-27; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 417 rows; 2002-10-18 through 2008-07-15; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 4 rows; 2004-12-09 through 2007-12-19; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 102 rows; 2004-10-27 through 2008-07-31; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 45 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 7 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 2002-04-24 through 2004-03-10; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 87 rows; 2002-06-24 through 2008-08-13; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 68 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 15 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 37 rows; 2002-10-30 through 2007-11-28; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 29 rows; 2003-09-09 through 2008-04-02; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 347 rows; 2002-06-26 through 2008-08-12; 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/mine-no-4-4407048`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/mine-no-4-4407048`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4407048/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4407048/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4407048/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`