# Louis Lowe Surface Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4407326
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Russell, VA
- **Operator:** Omega Surface Mining, LLC
- **Controller:** Omega Holdings LLC
- **Public source rows linked:** 847
- **Source coverage:** 14 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Omega Holdings LLC (0098593) → Omega Surface Mining, LLC (0119332) → Louis Lowe Surface Mine (4407326)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Omega Holdings LLC → Omega Surface Mining, LLC:** 2014-08-26 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4407326; 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 7 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 356 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 52 violation rows across the full record; 17 carry an S&S flag and $6,823 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 149 samples:** Occupational health samples 98 coal dust; 4 coal quartz; 47 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 — 0 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 0 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 0 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 2 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 18 inspection events and 661 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 77.205 — Travelways at surface installations.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.205
- **30 CFR 77.1104 — Accumulations of combustible materials.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1104
- **30 CFR 77.1007 — Drilling; general.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-K/section-77.1007
- **30 CFR 77.412 — Compressed air systems.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.412
- **30 CFR 77.1605 — Loading and haulage equipment; installations.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1605
- **30 CFR 77.410 — Mobile equipment; automatic warning devices.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.410
- **30 CFR 71.206 — Quarterly sampling; designated work positions.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-71/subpart-C/section-71.206
- **30 CFR 71.403 — Waiver of surface facilities requirements; posting of waiver.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-71/subpart-E/section-71.403

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 7 rows; 2015-06-09 through 2018-03-08; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2023-08-17 through 2023-08-17; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 52 rows; 2014-11-19 through 2018-10-25; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 98 rows; 2014-12-04 through 2018-11-01; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 434 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 109 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 2014-08-26 through 2014-08-26; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 18 rows; 2014-11-18 through 2020-02-19; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 19 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 4 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 47 rows; 2014-12-08 through 2018-10-30; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 4 rows; 2016-01-08 through 2018-09-27; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 52 rows; 2014-11-19 through 2018-10-25; 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/louis-lowe-surface-mine-4407326`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/louis-lowe-surface-mine-4407326`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4407326/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4407326/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4407326/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`