# Bishop Impoundment Area

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4602380
- **Status:** NonProducing
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Mcdowell, WV
- **Operator:** Chestnut Land Holdings, LLC
- **Controller:** James C  Justice III
- **Public source rows linked:** 3,441
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**James C  Justice III (0171761) → Chestnut Land Holdings, LLC (0118409) → Bishop Impoundment Area (4602380)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Consolidation Coal Co & Inland Steel Co → Bishop Coal Company:** 1950-01-01 through 1985-10-10; derived from co-tenure at mine 4602380; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **CONSOL Energy Inc → Consolidation Coal Company:** 1985-10-11 through 2011-05-16; derived from co-tenure at mine 4602380; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **James C  Justice II et al → Chestnut Land Holdings, LLC:** 2011-05-17 through 2017-03-06; derived from co-tenure at mine 4602380; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Robert E  Murray → Consolidation Coal Company:** 2013-12-05 through 2011-05-16; derived from co-tenure at mine 4602380; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Jillean L  Justice et al → Chestnut Land Holdings, LLC:** 2017-03-07 through 2022-08-23; derived from co-tenure at mine 4602380; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **James C  Justice lll et al → Chestnut Land Holdings, LLC:** 2017-03-07 through 2022-08-23; derived from co-tenure at mine 4602380; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **James C  Justice III → Chestnut Land Holdings, LLC:** 2022-08-24 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4602380; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 7
- Typed edges: 16
- 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: 2026-10-17T05:35:58.500035+00:00.

## Assessment signals

1. **SAFETY — 1 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 13 historical accident/injury rows; 1 coded fatalities and 215 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 183 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 491 violation rows across the full record; 145 carry an S&S flag and $391,576 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 191 samples:** Occupational health samples 123 coal dust; 15 coal quartz; 53 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 3 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 — 391 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 190 contested-violation rows, 190 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 11 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 11 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 — 50 since 2021:** Inspections 166 inspection events and 5K published inspection hours across the historical record.

## EIA annual operating context

- **Reporting year:** 2024
- **Production:** 7,475 short tons
- **Labor hours:** 23,851
- **Average employees:** 22
- **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 77.1605 — 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 71.209 — Status change reports.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-71/subpart-C/section-71.209
- **30 CFR 77.1606 — Loading and haulage equipment; inspection and maintenance.** (4 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1606
- **30 CFR 77.1109 — Quantity and location of firefighting equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1109
- **30 CFR 77.410 — Mobile equipment; automatic warning devices.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.410
- **30 CFR 77.1607 — Loading and haulage equipment; operation.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1607
- **30 CFR 77.207 — Illumination.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.207

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 13 rows; 2000-10-20 through 2025-10-04; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2026-08-07 through 2026-08-07; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 445 rows; 2011-08-22 through 2026-04-27; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 190 rows; 2013-12-05 through 2023-01-17; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 123 rows; 2011-09-29 through 2026-06-10; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 11 rows; 2013-12-05 through 2015-08-31; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 190 rows; 2012-07-20 through 2022-07-19; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 1,510 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 195 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 7 rows; 1950-01-01 through 2011-05-17; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 166 rows; 2000-03-21 through 2026-08-20; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 3 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 27 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 53 rows; 2011-09-29 through 2026-06-10; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 15 rows; 2017-02-21 through 2026-06-10; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 491 rows; 2011-08-22 through 2026-04-27; 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/bishop-impoundment-area-4602380`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/bishop-impoundment-area-4602380`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4602380/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4602380/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4602380/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`