# South Hollow Prep Plant and Loadout

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4603085
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Facility / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Kanawha, WV
- **Operator:** Kanawha Eagle Mining, LLC
- **Controller:** Sev.en Global Investments a.s.
- **Public source rows linked:** 6,311
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Sev.en Global Investments a.s. (0158381) → Kanawha Eagle Mining, LLC (0141654) → South Hollow Prep Plant and Loadout (4603085)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **ITT Corporation → Carbon Fuel Company:** 1950-01-01 through 1982-06-11; derived from co-tenure at mine 4603085; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Usx Corp → United States Steel Mining Company Inc:** 1982-06-12 through 1989-04-06; derived from co-tenure at mine 4603085; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Peter Creek Development Company → Crimson Processing Company:** 1989-04-07 through 1999-02-08; derived from co-tenure at mine 4603085; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Franklin D  Robertson  et al → Emerald Processing LLC:** 1999-02-09 through 2008-03-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 4603085; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **James O  Bunn  et al → Emerald Processing LLC:** 1999-02-09 through 2008-03-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 4603085; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Robert E  Ellis → Emerald Processing LLC:** 2008-04-01 through 2012-02-29; derived from co-tenure at mine 4603085; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Patriot Coal Corporation → Emerald Processing LLC:** 2012-03-01 through 2015-10-25; derived from co-tenure at mine 4603085; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Blackhawk Mining LLC → Kanawha Eagle Mining, LLC:** 2015-10-26 through 2020-05-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 4603085; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Sev.en Global Investments a.s. → Kanawha Eagle Mining, LLC:** 2020-06-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4603085; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 9
- Typed edges: 22
- 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 — 6 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 52 historical accident/injury rows; 1 coded fatalities and 783 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 173 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 819 violation rows across the full record; 316 carry an S&S flag and $313,124 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 622 samples:** Occupational health samples 471 coal dust; 29 coal quartz; 122 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 9 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 10K employee hours and 19 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 716 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 307 contested-violation rows, 307 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 102 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 20 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 198 inspection events and 9K published inspection hours across the historical record.

## EIA annual operating context

- **Reporting year:** 2024
- **Production:** 0 short tons
- **Labor hours:** 113,551
- **Average employees:** 50
- **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 77.516 — Electric wiring and equipment; installation and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.516
- **30 CFR 77.202 — Dust accumulations in surface installations.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.202
- **30 CFR 77.1605 — Loading and haulage equipment; installations.** (4 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1605
- **30 CFR 77.404 — Machinery and equipment; operation and maintenance.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.404
- **30 CFR 77.200 — Surface installations; general.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.200
- **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 77.208 — Storage of materials.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.208

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 52 rows; 2000-04-03 through 2025-10-06; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2000-06-22 through 2000-06-22; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 805 rows; 2000-05-24 through 2026-09-08; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 307 rows; 2009-08-07 through 2023-07-31; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 471 rows; 2000-08-02 through 2026-10-07; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 102 rows; 2006-01-06 through 2020-07-07; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 307 rows; 2007-12-17 through 2022-07-06; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 2,504 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 523 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 9 rows; 1950-01-01 through 2015-10-26; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 198 rows; 2000-01-04 through 2026-10-05; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 23 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 38 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 122 rows; 2000-08-01 through 2025-10-23; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 29 rows; 2001-08-07 through 2026-06-11; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 819 rows; 2000-05-24 through 2026-09-23; 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/south-hollow-prep-plant-and-loadout-4603085`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/south-hollow-prep-plant-and-loadout-4603085`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4603085/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4603085/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4603085/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`