# Litwar Preparation Plant

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4605872
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Facility / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Mcdowell, WV
- **Operator:** Litwar Processing Company, LLC
- **Controller:** Alpha Metallurgical Resources Inc
- **Public source rows linked:** 3,281
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Alpha Metallurgical Resources Inc (0127321) → Litwar Processing Company, LLC (0051369) → Litwar Preparation Plant (4605872)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Coal Arbed → Red Ash Sales Company Inc:** 1978-07-01 through 1992-05-25; derived from co-tenure at mine 4605872; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **American Metals & Coal International Inc → Virginia Crews Coal Company:** 1992-05-26 through 2003-03-10; derived from co-tenure at mine 4605872; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. → Litwar Processing Company, LLC:** 2003-03-11 through 2016-07-25; derived from co-tenure at mine 4605872; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, Inc → Litwar Processing Company, LLC:** 2016-07-26 through 2018-11-08; derived from co-tenure at mine 4605872; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Metallurgical Resources Inc → Litwar Processing Company, LLC:** 2018-11-09 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4605872; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 5
- Typed edges: 13
- 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 20 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 1,292 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 295 violation rows across the full record; 133 carry an S&S flag and $46,119 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 431 samples:** Occupational health samples 288 coal dust; 34 coal quartz; 109 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 12 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 630 employee hours and 1 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 72 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 33 contested-violation rows, 33 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 6 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 18 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 — 11 since 2021:** Inspections 94 inspection events and 4K 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 77.400 — Mechanical equipment guards.** (4 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.400
- **30 CFR 77.1102 — Warning signs; smoking and open flame.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1102
- **30 CFR 77.1705 — First aid training program; retraining of supervisory employees; availability to all miners.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-R/section-77.1705
- **30 CFR 77.205 — Travelways at surface installations.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.205
- **30 CFR 77.1103 — Flammable liquids; storage.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1103
- **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
- **30 CFR 77.512 — Inspection and cover plates.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.512
- **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:** 20 rows; 2000-05-16 through 2019-02-13; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2024-02-22 through 2024-02-22; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 295 rows; 2000-02-15 through 2019-03-14; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 33 rows; 2008-08-07 through 2015-11-30; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 288 rows; 2000-01-11 through 2021-08-11; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 6 rows; 2001-01-30 through 2014-08-22; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 33 rows; 2007-09-19 through 2013-12-11; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 1,525 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 273 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 5 rows; 1978-07-01 through 2003-03-11; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 94 rows; 2000-02-15 through 2024-07-31; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 228 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 41 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 109 rows; 2000-02-15 through 2020-11-05; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 34 rows; 2000-08-07 through 2020-06-04; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 295 rows; 2000-02-15 through 2019-03-14; 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/litwar-preparation-plant-4605872`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/litwar-preparation-plant-4605872`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4605872/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4605872/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4605872/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`