# Elk Creek Surface

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4407392
- **Status:** NonProducing
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Buchanan, VA
- **Operator:** Surface Minerals Company
- **Controller:** Metinvest B V
- **Public source rows linked:** 2,181
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Metinvest B V (0085453) → Surface Minerals Company (P24715) → Elk Creek Surface (4407392)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Metinvest B V → Surface Minerals Company:** 2019-03-18 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4407392; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **United  Company → Surface Minerals Company:** 2019-03-18 through 2009-04-29; derived from co-tenure at mine 4407392; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Kenneth L  Stacy → Surface Minerals Company:** 2019-03-18 through 2006-02-09; derived from co-tenure at mine 4407392; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 3
- Typed edges: 7
- Interval anomalies: 2
- 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 3 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 351 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 79 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 108 violation rows across the full record; 16 carry an S&S flag and $31,484 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 310 samples:** Occupational health samples 237 coal dust; 23 coal quartz; 50 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 2K employee hours and 4 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 8 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 3 contested-violation rows, 3 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 2 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 11 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 — 16 since 2021:** Inspections 20 inspection events and 2K published inspection hours across the historical record.

## EIA annual operating context

- **Reporting year:** 2024
- **Production:** 186,089 short tons
- **Labor hours:** 56,829
- **Average employees:** 26
- **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 77.1606 — Loading and haulage equipment; inspection and maintenance.** (7 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1606
- **30 CFR 77.1110 — Examination and maintenance of firefighting equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1110
- **30 CFR 77.1605 — Loading and haulage equipment; installations.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1605
- **30 CFR 77.1104 — Accumulations of combustible materials.** (2 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

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 3 rows; 2020-01-12 through 2022-12-12; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2026-01-07 through 2026-01-07; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 107 rows; 2019-07-17 through 2025-05-12; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 3 rows; 2020-08-14 through 2020-12-07; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 237 rows; 2019-06-13 through 2025-11-05; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 2 rows; 2023-03-29 through 2024-01-29; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 3 rows; 2020-02-20 through 2020-06-15; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 1,349 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 233 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 2019-03-18 through 2019-03-18; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 20 rows; 2019-07-08 through 2026-04-01; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 30 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 8 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 50 rows; 2019-07-30 through 2025-11-05; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 23 rows; 2019-07-30 through 2025-05-20; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 108 rows; 2019-07-17 through 2025-05-12; 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/elk-creek-surface-4407392`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/elk-creek-surface-4407392`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4407392/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4407392/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4407392/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`