# Albright Preparation Plant

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4602560
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Facility / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Preston, WV
- **Operator:** Kingwood Mining Company LLC
- **Controller:** Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, Inc
- **Public source rows linked:** 480
- **Source coverage:** 14 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, Inc (0127923) → Kingwood Mining Company LLC (0051089) → Albright Preparation Plant (4602560)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **PBS Coals Inc (Obsolete-see C15843) → Kingwood Mining Company:** 1950-01-01 through 1983-05-11; derived from co-tenure at mine 4602560; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **NSM PLC → Kingwood Mining Company Inc:** 1983-05-12 through 1985-10-17; derived from co-tenure at mine 4602560; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **FSS Coal Holding Inc → Kingwood Mining Company:** 1985-10-18 through 1990-01-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 4602560; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **El Paso Energy Corp → Coastal Coal-West Virginia LLC:** 1990-02-01 through 2003-01-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 4602560; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. → Kingwood Mining Company LLC:** 2003-02-01 through 2016-07-25; derived from co-tenure at mine 4602560; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, Inc → Kingwood Mining Company LLC:** 2016-07-26 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4602560; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 6
- Typed edges: 17
- 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 1 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 7 violation rows across the full record; 3 carry an S&S flag and $581 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 29 samples:** Occupational health samples 19 coal dust; 2 coal quartz; 8 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 — 0 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 0 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 0 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 2 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 41 inspection events and 439 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 77.1110 — Examination and maintenance of firefighting equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1110
- **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 48.26 — Experienced miner training.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-B/section-48.26
- **30 CFR 77.1713 — Daily inspection of surface coal mine; certified person; reports of inspection.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-R/section-77.1713
- **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 77.200 — Surface installations; general.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.200

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 1 rows; 2000-03-08 through 2000-03-08; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2009-11-16 through 2009-11-16; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 7 rows; 2000-01-18 through 2006-08-09; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 19 rows; 2000-01-10 through 2006-08-09; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 262 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 44 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 6 rows; 1950-01-01 through 2003-02-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 41 rows; 2000-01-10 through 2009-10-21; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 70 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 11 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 8 rows; 2000-01-10 through 2007-03-05; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 2 rows; 2000-01-18 through 2000-01-18; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 7 rows; 2000-01-18 through 2006-08-09; 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/albright-preparation-plant-4602560`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/albright-preparation-plant-4602560`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4602560/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4602560/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4602560/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`