# Long Branch Surface Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4407381
- **Status:** NonProducing
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Dickenson, VA
- **Operator:** Paramont Contura, LLC
- **Controller:** Alpha Metallurgical Resources Inc
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,536
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Alpha Metallurgical Resources Inc (0127321) → Paramont Contura, LLC (0146274) → Long Branch Surface Mine (4407381)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Alpha Metallurgical Resources Inc → Paramont Contura, LLC:** 2018-01-04 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4407381; 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 — 2 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 4 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 35 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 45 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 78 violation rows across the full record; 17 carry an S&S flag and $19,827 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 422 samples:** Occupational health samples 311 coal dust; 17 coal quartz; 94 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 1 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 — 16 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 3 contested-violation rows, 3 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 10 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 — 14 since 2021:** Inspections 25 inspection events and 2K published inspection hours across the historical record.

## EIA annual operating context

- **Reporting year:** 2024
- **Production:** 166,847 short tons
- **Labor hours:** 94,408
- **Average employees:** 44
- **Coal supply region:** Appalachia Central
- **Union code:** Not published
- **Published rows under this MSHA ID:** 1

## Recent Title 30 crosswalk

Snapshot current through 2026-08-19.

- **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 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 48.31 — Hazard training.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-B/section-48.31
- **30 CFR 48.29 — Records of training.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-B/section-48.29
- **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 77.404 — 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
- **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 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:** 4 rows; 2018-07-26 through 2021-06-22; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2025-04-22 through 2025-04-22; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 78 rows; 2018-03-15 through 2025-01-08; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 3 rows; 2019-07-31 through 2022-08-02; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 311 rows; 2018-03-15 through 2025-02-06; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 10 rows; 2018-07-02 through 2021-12-02; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 3 rows; 2018-12-27 through 2022-01-24; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 718 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 149 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 2018-01-04 through 2018-01-04; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 25 rows; 2018-02-07 through 2026-06-03; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 34 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 9 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 94 rows; 2018-03-15 through 2025-01-08; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 17 rows; 2018-09-12 through 2024-12-17; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 78 rows; 2018-03-15 through 2025-01-08; 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/long-branch-surface-mine-4407381`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/long-branch-surface-mine-4407381`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4407381/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4407381/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4407381/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`