# Farley Eagle Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4601537
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Wyoming, WV
- **Operator:** Gateway Eagle Coal Company, LLC
- **Controller:** Patriot Coal Corporation
- **Public source rows linked:** 3,093
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Patriot Coal Corporation (0071611) → Gateway Eagle Coal Company, LLC (0119069) → Farley Eagle Mine (4601537)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Eastern Gas & Fuel Association → Eastern Associated Coal Corp:** 1950-01-01 through 1987-05-14; derived from co-tenure at mine 4601537; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Hanson PLC → Eastern Associated Coal Corp:** 1987-05-15 through 2005-06-15; derived from co-tenure at mine 4601537; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Long Branch Energy Corporation → Long Branch Energy:** 2005-06-16 through 2012-02-23; derived from co-tenure at mine 4601537; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Patriot Coal Corporation → Gateway Eagle Coal Company, LLC:** 2012-02-24 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4601537; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 4
- Typed edges: 12
- 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 57 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 1,823 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 478 violation rows across the full record; 151 carry an S&S flag and $217,201 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 530 samples:** Occupational health samples 482 coal dust; 11 coal quartz; 37 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 6 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 — 394 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 183 contested-violation rows, 201 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 10 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 7 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 70 inspection events and 5K 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 75.370 — Mine ventilation plan; submission and approval.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.370
- **30 CFR 75.1731 — Maintenance of belt conveyors and belt conveyor entries.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1731
- **30 CFR 75.604 — Permanent splicing of trailing cables.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-G/section-75.604
- **30 CFR 75.517 — Power wires and cables; insulation and protection.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.517
- **30 CFR 75.400 — Accumulation of combustible materials.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-E/section-75.400
- **30 CFR 75.342 — Methane monitors.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.342

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 57 rows; 2005-08-20 through 2014-08-12; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2014-01-09 through 2014-01-09; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 467 rows; 2005-11-09 through 2013-11-20; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 201 rows; 2009-03-10 through 2016-01-28; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 482 rows; 2005-09-27 through 2013-10-29; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 10 rows; 2007-01-16 through 2013-07-31; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 183 rows; 2007-07-03 through 2013-11-14; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 779 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 184 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 4 rows; 1950-01-01 through 2012-02-24; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 70 rows; 2005-08-09 through 2014-01-03; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 103 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 25 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 37 rows; 2008-09-02 through 2013-07-30; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 11 rows; 2006-05-23 through 2013-05-21; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 478 rows; 2005-11-09 through 2013-12-03; 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/farley-eagle-mine-4601537`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/farley-eagle-mine-4601537`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4601537/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4601537/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4601537/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`