# Linville Coal Prep Plant

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4606528
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Facility / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Kanawha, WV
- **Operator:** Linville Coal Preparation Plant Inc
- **Controller:** Howard  Linville
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,496
- **Source coverage:** 13 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Howard  Linville (C13981) → Linville Coal Preparation Plant Inc (P20538) → Linville Coal Prep Plant (4606528)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Lawson W  Hamilton Jr → Pratt Mining Company:** 1982-05-01 through 1989-07-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 4606528; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Howard  Linville → Linville Coal Preparation Plant Inc:** 1989-08-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4606528; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 2
- Typed edges: 6
- 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 5 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 61 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 72 violation rows across the full record; 51 carry an S&S flag and $8,230 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 58 samples:** Occupational health samples 39 coal dust; 19 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 8K employee hours and 13 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 — 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 — 0 since 2021:** Inspections 61 inspection events and 936 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.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1104
- **30 CFR 77.513 — Insulating mats at power switches.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.513
- **30 CFR 77.502 — Electric equipment; examination, testing, and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.502
- **30 CFR 75.504 — Permissibility of new, replacement, used, reconditioned, additional, and rebuilt electric face equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.504
- **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 48.8 — Annual refresher training of miners; minimum courses of instruction; hours of instruction.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-A/section-48.8
- **30 CFR 77.1605 — Loading and haulage equipment; installations.** (1 retained recent row) — 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.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.404

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 5 rows; 2000-07-28 through 2006-10-20; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2006-12-29 through 2006-12-29; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 71 rows; 2000-03-07 through 2006-06-05; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 39 rows; 2000-03-07 through 2006-06-01; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 1,019 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 187 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 1982-05-01 through 1989-08-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 61 rows; 2000-01-06 through 2007-01-17; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 12 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 7 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 19 rows; 2000-03-08 through 2004-11-10; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Violations:** 72 rows; 2000-03-07 through 2006-06-05; 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/linville-coal-prep-plant-4606528`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/linville-coal-prep-plant-4606528`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4606528/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4606528/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4606528/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`