# Crown Hill Dock

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4605382
- **Status:** Temporarily Idled
- **Type / commodity:** Facility / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Kanawha, WV
- **Operator:** Kingston Mining, Inc.
- **Controller:** Alpha Metallurgical Resources Inc
- **Public source rows linked:** 2,803
- **Source coverage:** 14 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Alpha Metallurgical Resources Inc (0127321) → Kingston Mining, Inc. (P23860) → Crown Hill Dock (4605382)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Lawson W  Hamilton Jr → Ford Coal Company:** 1976-12-01 through 1979-02-15; derived from co-tenure at mine 4605382; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **George  Davis Jr → Greater Kanawha Industries Inc:** 1979-02-16 through 1989-07-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 4605382; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Ashland Inc et al → Paint Creek Terminals Inc:** 1989-08-01 through 2002-03-04; derived from co-tenure at mine 4605382; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Warren  Hylton et al → Law River Company, LLC:** 2002-03-05 through 2022-06-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 4605382; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **L W  Hamilton et al → Law River Company, LLC:** 2002-03-05 through 2022-06-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 4605382; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. → Kingston Mining, Inc.:** 2022-07-01 through 2016-07-25; derived from co-tenure at mine 4605382; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Foundation Coal Corporation → Kingston Mining, Inc.:** 2022-07-01 through 2009-07-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 4605382; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Metallurgical Resources Inc → Kingston Mining, Inc.:** 2022-07-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4605382; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, Inc → Kingston Mining, Inc.:** 2022-07-01 through 2018-11-08; derived from co-tenure at mine 4605382; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Rag Aktiengesellschaft → Kingston Mining, Inc.:** 2022-07-01 through 2004-07-29; derived from co-tenure at mine 4605382; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 10
- Typed edges: 24
- Interval anomalies: 4
- 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 11 historical accident/injury rows; 1 coded fatalities and 28 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 49 violation rows across the full record; 24 carry an S&S flag and $10,864 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 192 samples:** Occupational health samples 137 coal dust; 1 coal quartz; 54 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 2 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 — 10 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 — 12 since 2021:** Inspections 72 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 77.1707 — First aid equipment; location; minimum requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-R/section-77.1707
- **30 CFR 77.410 — Mobile equipment; automatic warning devices.** (4 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.410
- **30 CFR 77.1703 — First-Aid training; supervisory employees.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-R/section-77.1703
- **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 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
- **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 77.502-2 — Electric equipment; frequency of examination and testing.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.502-2

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 11 rows; 2000-01-13 through 2014-04-18; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2026-06-10 through 2026-06-10; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 47 rows; 2000-02-18 through 2015-07-07; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 137 rows; 2000-01-14 through 2025-03-19; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 1,890 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 375 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 10 rows; 1976-12-01 through 2022-07-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 72 rows; 2000-01-21 through 2026-06-09; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 118 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 37 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 54 rows; 2000-01-31 through 2025-03-19; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 1 rows; 2001-03-01 through 2001-03-01; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 49 rows; 2000-02-18 through 2015-07-07; 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/crown-hill-dock-4605382`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/crown-hill-dock-4605382`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4605382/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4605382/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4605382/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`