# Caretta Impoundment/Refuse Areas

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4602437
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Facility / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Mcdowell, WV
- **Operator:** West Virginia Properties, Inc.
- **Controller:** Gene R Taylor
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,466
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Gene R Taylor (C14853) → West Virginia Properties, Inc. (P22362) → Caretta Impoundment/Refuse Areas (4602437)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Olga Coal Company → Olga Coal Company:** 1950-01-01 through 1988-08-23; derived from co-tenure at mine 4602437; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Voest-Alpine International Corp → Virginia Crews Coal Company:** 1988-08-24 through 1990-08-05; derived from co-tenure at mine 4602437; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Olga Coal Company → Olga Coal Company:** 1990-08-06 through 1992-11-11; derived from co-tenure at mine 4602437; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Gene R Taylor → West Virginia Properties Inc:** 1992-11-12 through 2013-06-25; derived from co-tenure at mine 4602437; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Sandeep  Agarwal → Caretta Minerals, LLC:** 2013-06-26 through 2017-09-18; derived from co-tenure at mine 4602437; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **JSW Steel Ltd → Caretta Minerals, LLC:** 2017-09-19 through 2023-09-18; derived from co-tenure at mine 4602437; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Gene R Taylor → West Virginia Properties, Inc.:** 2023-09-19 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4602437; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 7
- Typed edges: 18
- 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: 2026-10-17T05:35:58.500035+00:00.

## Assessment signals

1. **SAFETY — 0 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 1 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 56 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 126 violation rows across the full record; 22 carry an S&S flag and $16,556 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 211 samples:** Occupational health samples 153 coal dust; 8 coal quartz; 50 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 1 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 — 4 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 1 contested-violation rows, 1 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 2 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 8 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 — 38 since 2021:** Inspections 147 inspection events and 2K 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 77.1104 — Accumulations of combustible materials.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1104
- **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 77.1605 — Loading and haulage equipment; installations.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1605
- **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 77.400 — Mechanical equipment guards.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.400

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 1 rows; 2014-05-16 through 2014-05-16; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2023-04-24 through 2023-04-24; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 110 rows; 2002-08-23 through 2026-08-24; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 1 rows; 2018-09-19 through 2018-09-19; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 153 rows; 2017-05-11 through 2026-09-10; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 2 rows; 2014-02-06 through 2014-09-25; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 1 rows; 2018-03-22 through 2018-03-22; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 683 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 163 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 7 rows; 1950-01-01 through 2023-09-19; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 147 rows; 2000-03-22 through 2026-08-24; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 2 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 10 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 50 rows; 2017-05-11 through 2026-09-10; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 8 rows; 2018-11-27 through 2025-12-08; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 126 rows; 2002-08-23 through 2026-09-22; 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/caretta-impoundment-refuse-areas-4602437`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/caretta-impoundment-refuse-areas-4602437`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4602437/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4602437/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4602437/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`