# Rockcamp Impoundments 1 & 2

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4602265
- **Status:** NonProducing
- **Type / commodity:** Facility / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Nicholas, WV
- **Operator:** Lexington Coal Company, LLC
- **Controller:** Lexington Coal Holdings, Inc
- **Public source rows linked:** 406
- **Source coverage:** 13 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Lexington Coal Holdings, Inc (0137221) → Lexington Coal Company, LLC (0154153) → Rockcamp Impoundments 1 & 2 (4602265)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Terry  Seelinger et al → Peerless Eagle Coal Company:** 1950-01-01 through 1975-08-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 4602265; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Massey Energy Company → Peerless Eagle Coal Company, LLC:** 1975-09-01 through 2011-05-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 4602265; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. → Peerless Eagle Coal Company, LLC:** 2011-06-01 through 2016-07-25; derived from co-tenure at mine 4602265; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, Inc → Peerless Eagle Coal Company, LLC:** 2016-07-26 through 2017-10-22; derived from co-tenure at mine 4602265; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Lexington Coal Holdings, Inc → Lexington Coal Company, LLC:** 2017-10-23 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4602265; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 5
- 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 0 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 11 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 31 violation rows across the full record; 1 carry an S&S flag and $2,745 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 13 samples:** Occupational health samples 9 coal dust; 1 coal quartz; 3 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 0 employee hours and 0 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 6 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 3 contested-violation rows, 3 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 — 31 since 2021:** Inspections 134 inspection events and 1K 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 77.216-3 — Water, sediment, or slurry impoundments and impounding structures; inspection requirements; correction of hazards; program requirements.** (6 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.216-3
- **30 CFR 77.216 — Water, sediment, or slurry impoundments and impounding structures; general.** (4 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.216
- **30 CFR 77.205 — Travelways at surface installations.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.205
- **30 CFR 71.206 — Quarterly sampling; designated work positions.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-71/subpart-C/section-71.206

## Source coverage

- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2008-04-01 through 2008-04-01; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 26 rows; 2000-02-28 through 2026-07-21; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 3 rows; 2025-02-13 through 2025-02-13; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 9 rows; 2020-03-09 through 2020-09-01; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Contested Violations:** 3 rows; 2024-06-06 through 2024-06-06; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 5 rows; 1950-01-01 through 2017-10-23; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 134 rows; 2000-02-28 through 2026-10-07; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 180 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 9 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 3 rows; 2020-03-09 through 2020-03-09; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 1 rows; 2020-03-09 through 2020-03-09; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 31 rows; 2000-02-28 through 2026-08-04; 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/rockcamp-impoundments-1-2-4602265`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/rockcamp-impoundments-1-2-4602265`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4602265/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4602265/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4602265/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`