# Smith Gap Surface Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4407272
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Dickenson, VA
- **Operator:** Paramont Coal Company Virginia, LLC.
- **Controller:** Alpha Natural Resources, Inc.
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,595
- **Source coverage:** 16 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. (0041211) → Paramont Coal Company Virginia, LLC. (0050885) → Smith Gap Surface Mine (4407272)**

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.:** 2010-07-19 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4407272; 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 369 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 50 violation rows across the full record; 14 carry an S&S flag and $28,972 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 92 samples:** Occupational health samples 62 coal dust; 30 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 — 25 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 10 contested-violation rows, 10 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 5 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 6 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 15 inspection events and 815 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 77.1605 — Loading and haulage equipment; installations.** (8 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1605
- **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 77.1607 — Loading and haulage equipment; operation.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1607
- **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

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 5 rows; 2011-07-28 through 2013-06-19; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2015-09-10 through 2015-09-10; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 49 rows; 2011-07-27 through 2014-03-17; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 10 rows; 2013-04-18 through 2015-03-26; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 62 rows; 2011-07-28 through 2022-09-08; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 5 rows; 2011-10-20 through 2013-08-29; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 10 rows; 2011-08-30 through 2013-07-16; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 1,120 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 210 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 2010-07-19 through 2010-07-19; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 15 rows; 2010-09-07 through 2015-06-16; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 21 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:** 30 rows; 2011-09-07 through 2014-03-05; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Violations:** 50 rows; 2011-07-27 through 2014-03-17; 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/smith-gap-surface-mine-4407272`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/smith-gap-surface-mine-4407272`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4407272/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4407272/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4407272/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`