# 3 Pole

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4407254
- **Status:** Temporarily Idled
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Buchanan, VA
- **Operator:** Surface Minerals Company
- **Controller:** Metinvest B V
- **Public source rows linked:** 2,592
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Metinvest B V (0085453) → Surface Minerals Company (P24715) → 3 Pole (4407254)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **United  Company → Surface Minerals Company:** 2009-03-18 through 2009-04-29; derived from co-tenure at mine 4407254; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Kenneth L  Stacy → Surface Minerals Company:** 2009-03-18 through 2006-02-09; derived from co-tenure at mine 4407254; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Metinvest B V → Surface Minerals Company:** 2009-04-30 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4407254; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 3
- Typed edges: 7
- Interval anomalies: 1
- 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 8 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 25 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 165 violation rows across the full record; 59 carry an S&S flag and $109,816 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 236 samples:** Occupational health samples 165 coal dust; 4 coal quartz; 67 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 — 49 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 22 contested-violation rows, 22 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 5 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 14 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 — 12 since 2021:** Inspections 55 inspection events and 2K 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 77.1606 — 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 77.207 — Illumination.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.207
- **30 CFR 71.206 — Quarterly sampling; designated work positions.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-71/subpart-C/section-71.206
- **30 CFR 77.1104 — Accumulations of combustible materials.** (4 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1104
- **30 CFR 77.1103 — Flammable liquids; storage.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1103
- **30 CFR 77.404 — Machinery and equipment; operation and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.404

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 8 rows; 2009-10-19 through 2014-08-19; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2025-12-03 through 2025-12-03; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 162 rows; 2009-07-06 through 2020-11-05; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 22 rows; 2012-08-23 through 2016-02-09; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 165 rows; 2009-07-14 through 2020-11-05; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 5 rows; 2015-04-14 through 2016-08-30; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 22 rows; 2012-03-07 through 2015-02-27; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 1,521 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 333 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 2009-03-18 through 2009-03-18; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 55 rows; 2009-05-13 through 2026-05-26; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 48 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:** 67 rows; 2009-07-14 through 2017-02-01; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 4 rows; 2009-07-14 through 2016-03-01; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 165 rows; 2009-07-06 through 2020-11-05; 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/3-pole-4407254`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/3-pole-4407254`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4407254/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4407254/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4407254/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`