# Page #1

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4407412
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Anthracite)
- **Location:** Buchanan, VA
- **Operator:** Mountain Fuels Inc.
- **Controller:** Jerry  Farmer; Bobby  Ketron
- **Public source rows linked:** 94
- **Source coverage:** 12 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Jerry  Farmer; Bobby  Ketron (0061809) → Mountain Fuels Inc. (0055216) → Page #1 (4407412)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Jerry  Farmer et al → Mountain Fuels Inc.:** 2021-09-16 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4407412; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Bobby  Ketron et al → Mountain Fuels Inc.:** 2021-09-16 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4407412; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Darrell L  Boyd → Mountain Fuels Inc.:** 2021-09-16 through 2006-07-11; derived from co-tenure at mine 4407412; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 3
- Typed edges: 6
- 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 — 1 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 1 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 3 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 12 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 12 violation rows across the full record; 4 carry an S&S flag and $1,780 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 47 samples:** Occupational health samples 37 coal dust; 1 coal quartz; 9 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 3K employee hours and 7 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 — 0 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 — 6 since 2021:** Inspections 6 inspection events and 216 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 71.400 — Bathing facilities; change rooms; sanitary flush toilet facilities.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-71/subpart-E/section-71.400
- **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 77.1110 — Examination and maintenance of firefighting equipment.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1110
- **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 77.404 — 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 77.1606 — Loading and haulage equipment; inspection and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1606
- **30 CFR 77.1104 — Accumulations of combustible materials.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1104

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 1 rows; 2022-12-13 through 2022-12-13; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2024-02-19 through 2024-02-19; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 11 rows; 2022-08-15 through 2023-12-20; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 37 rows; 2022-02-11 through 2024-01-23; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 2021-09-16 through 2021-09-16; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 6 rows; 2022-02-17 through 2023-12-14; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 9 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 3 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 9 rows; 2022-03-17 through 2023-01-24; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 1 rows; 2023-07-27 through 2023-07-27; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 12 rows; 2022-08-15 through 2023-12-20; 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/page-1-4407412`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/page-1-4407412`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4407412/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4407412/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4407412/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`