# Mill Creek #1 Surface Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4407169
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Dickenson, VA
- **Operator:** Barnette Energy, LLC
- **Controller:** Metamining Inc.
- **Public source rows linked:** 883
- **Source coverage:** 16 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Metamining Inc. (0095913) → Barnette Energy, LLC (0071463) → Mill Creek #1 Surface Mine (4407169)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Arlene V  Barnette  et al → Barnette Energy, LLC:** 2006-04-28 through 2010-08-25; derived from co-tenure at mine 4407169; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **William D  Barnette  et al → Barnette Energy, LLC:** 2006-04-28 through 2010-08-25; derived from co-tenure at mine 4407169; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Metamining Inc. → Barnette Energy, LLC:** 2010-08-26 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4407169; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 3
- 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 0 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 78 violation rows across the full record; 31 carry an S&S flag and $22,793 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 103 samples:** Occupational health samples 71 coal dust; 12 coal quartz; 20 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 — 0 tons:** Quarterly production and employment 0 employee hours and 0 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 20 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 7 contested-violation rows, 7 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 6 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 5 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 24 inspection events and 659 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 77.404 — Machinery and equipment; operation and maintenance.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.404
- **30 CFR 77.200 — Surface installations; general.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.200
- **30 CFR 77.205 — Travelways at surface installations.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.205
- **30 CFR 77.502-2 — Electric equipment; frequency of examination and testing.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.502-2
- **30 CFR 77.1606 — Loading and haulage equipment; inspection and maintenance.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1606
- **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 41.13 — Failure to notify.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-G/part-41/subpart-B/section-41.13
- **30 CFR 77.403 — Mobile equipment; falling object protective structures (FOPS).** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.403

## Source coverage

- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2017-04-26 through 2017-04-26; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 78 rows; 2006-10-03 through 2012-09-17; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 7 rows; 2008-04-28 through 2014-09-16; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 71 rows; 2006-10-04 through 2012-01-16; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 6 rows; 2008-01-16 through 2008-01-16; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 7 rows; 2007-11-06 through 2012-09-14; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 419 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 68 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 2006-04-28 through 2006-04-28; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 24 rows; 2006-06-06 through 2017-09-20; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 78 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 10 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 20 rows; 2006-10-04 through 2010-01-13; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 12 rows; 2007-11-05 through 2011-03-21; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 78 rows; 2006-10-03 through 2012-09-17; 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/mill-creek-1-surface-mine-4407169`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/mill-creek-1-surface-mine-4407169`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4407169/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4407169/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4407169/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`