# Red Onion Surface Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4407190
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Wise, VA
- **Operator:** Paramont Coal Company Virginia LLC
- **Controller:** Alpha Natural Resources, Inc.
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,737
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. (0041211) → Paramont Coal Company Virginia LLC (0050885) → Red Onion Surface Mine (4407190)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. → Paramont Coal Company Virginia LLC:** 2006-10-18 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4407190; 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 5 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 16 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 77 violation rows across the full record; 24 carry an S&S flag and $17,686 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 133 samples:** Occupational health samples 82 coal dust; 10 coal quartz; 41 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 — 15 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 7 contested-violation rows, 7 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 1 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 9 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 23 inspection events and 1K 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 77.1104 — Accumulations of combustible materials.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1104
- **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 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.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1605
- **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 48.23 — Training plans; time of submission; where filed; information required; time for approval; method for disapproval; commencement of training; approval of instructors.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-B/section-48.23
- **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

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 5 rows; 2009-12-15 through 2013-02-08; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2013-09-13 through 2013-09-13; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 77 rows; 2007-03-05 through 2012-12-05; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 7 rows; 2009-04-10 through 2010-12-15; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 82 rows; 2007-07-22 through 2013-01-23; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 1 rows; 2007-05-03 through 2007-05-03; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 7 rows; 2007-12-04 through 2010-05-03; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 1,138 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 203 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 2006-10-18 through 2006-10-18; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 23 rows; 2006-12-04 through 2013-08-28; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 56 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 7 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 41 rows; 2007-07-24 through 2012-11-15; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 10 rows; 2007-11-07 through 2010-05-04; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 77 rows; 2007-03-05 through 2012-12-05; 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/red-onion-surface-mine-4407190`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/red-onion-surface-mine-4407190`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4407190/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4407190/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4407190/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`