# West Dante #1

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4407430
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Russell, VA
- **Operator:** Mountain Fuels Inc.
- **Controller:** Jerry  Farmer; Bobby  Ketron
- **Public source rows linked:** 32
- **Source coverage:** 10 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Jerry  Farmer; Bobby  Ketron (0061809) → Mountain Fuels Inc. (0055216) → West Dante #1 (4407430)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Bobby  Ketron et al → Mountain Fuels Inc.:** 2023-12-12 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4407430; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Jerry  Farmer et al → Mountain Fuels Inc.:** 2023-12-12 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4407430; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Darrell L  Boyd → Mountain Fuels Inc.:** 2023-12-12 through 2006-07-11; derived from co-tenure at mine 4407430; 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 — 0 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 0 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 1 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 1 violation rows across the full record; 0 carry an S&S flag and $147 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 17 samples:** Occupational health samples 10 coal dust; 7 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 — 6K tons:** Quarterly production and employment 847 employee hours and 3 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 — 3 since 2021:** Inspections 3 inspection events and 78 published inspection hours across the historical record.

## EIA annual operating context

- **Reporting year:** 2024
- **Production:** 66,104 short tons
- **Labor hours:** 4,583
- **Average employees:** 4
- **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 77.1102 — Warning signs; smoking and open flame.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1102

## Source coverage

- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2024-12-03 through 2024-12-03; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 1 rows; 2024-03-11 through 2024-03-11; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 10 rows; 2024-03-12 through 2024-09-17; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 2023-12-12 through 2023-12-12; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 3 rows; 2024-03-06 through 2024-12-04; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 4 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 7 rows; 2024-03-18 through 2024-09-17; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Violations:** 1 rows; 2024-03-11 through 2024-03-11; 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/west-dante-1-4407430`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/west-dante-1-4407430`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4407430/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4407430/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4407430/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`