# Pinnacle Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4601816
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Wyoming, WV
- **Operator:** Pinnacle Mining Company LLC
- **Controller:** ERP Compliant Fuels, LLC
- **Public source rows linked:** 30,630
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**ERP Compliant Fuels, LLC (0130321) → Pinnacle Mining Company LLC (0051370) → Pinnacle Mine (4601816)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Usx Corp → U. S.  Steel Mining Company LLC:** 1950-01-01 through 2003-06-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 4601816; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Questor Management Company LLC  et al → Pinnacle Mining Company LLC:** 2003-07-01 through 2007-07-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 4601816; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Benjamin M  Statler et al → Pinnacle Mining Company LLC:** 2003-07-01 through 2007-07-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 4601816; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Cleveland-Cliffs Inc → Pinnacle Mining Company LLC:** 2007-07-31 through 2015-12-21; derived from co-tenure at mine 4601816; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Virginia Conservation Legacy Fund (VCLF) → Pinnacle Mining Company LLC:** 2015-12-22 through 2016-11-17; derived from co-tenure at mine 4601816; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **ERP Compliant Fuels, LLC → Pinnacle Mining Company LLC:** 2016-11-18 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4601816; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 6
- Typed edges: 13
- 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 959 historical accident/injury rows; 1 coded fatalities and 32,323 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 2 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 6,672 violation rows across the full record; 1,791 carry an S&S flag and $4,701,281 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 8K samples:** Occupational health samples 7,660 coal dust; 328 coal quartz; 381 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 96 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 5 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 3,100 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 1,384 contested-violation rows, 1,386 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 330 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 15 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 — 2 since 2021:** Inspections 1,693 inspection events and 79K 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 75.1711 — Sealing of mines.** (4 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1711
- **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 75.363 — Hazardous conditions and violations of mandatory health or safety standards; posting, correcting, and recording.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.363
- **30 CFR 75.202 — Protection from falls of roof, face and ribs.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-C/section-75.202
- **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 75.400 — Accumulation of combustible materials.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-E/section-75.400

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 959 rows; 2000-01-03 through 2018-09-30; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2024-08-23 through 2024-08-23; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 6,519 rows; 2000-01-05 through 2024-01-11; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 1,386 rows; 2000-06-12 through 2019-09-30; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 7,660 rows; 2000-01-03 through 2018-09-17; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 330 rows; 2000-02-29 through 2019-01-11; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 1,384 rows; 2006-04-03 through 2018-10-04; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 2,503 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 542 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 6 rows; 1950-01-01 through 2003-07-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 1,693 rows; 2000-01-03 through 2024-02-02; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 214 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 51 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 381 rows; 2000-02-02 through 2018-02-26; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 328 rows; 2000-02-01 through 2018-09-17; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 6,672 rows; 2000-01-05 through 2024-02-02; 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/pinnacle-mine-4601816`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/pinnacle-mine-4601816`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4601816/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4601816/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4601816/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`