# Star Bridge Preparation Plant-Rail Load

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4606736
- **Status:** Temporarily Idled
- **Type / commodity:** Facility / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Randolph, WV
- **Operator:** Carter Roag Coal Company
- **Controller:** Metinvest B V
- **Public source rows linked:** 2,870
- **Source coverage:** 16 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Metinvest B V (0085453) → Carter Roag Coal Company (0055797) → Star Bridge Preparation Plant-Rail Load (4606736)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Marquard & Bahls Ag → Carter-Roag Coal Company:** 1983-12-01 through 2004-10-21; derived from co-tenure at mine 4606736; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **United  Company → Carter Roag Coal Company:** 2004-10-22 through 2009-04-29; derived from co-tenure at mine 4606736; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Metinvest B V → Carter Roag Coal Company:** 2009-04-30 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4606736; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 3
- Typed edges: 8
- 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 — 3 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 18 historical accident/injury rows; 2 coded fatalities and 523 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 150 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 370 violation rows across the full record; 135 carry an S&S flag and $243,700 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 404 samples:** Occupational health samples 294 coal dust; 18 coal quartz; 92 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 18 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 — No published quarter:** Quarterly production and employment The source remains registered, but no mine-keyed quarterly production row was published.
5. **LEGAL — 149 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 56 contested-violation rows, 56 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 37 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 16 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 — 25 since 2021:** Inspections 93 inspection events and 4K published inspection hours across the historical record.

## EIA annual operating context

- **Reporting year:** 2024
- **Production:** 0 short tons
- **Labor hours:** 13,089
- **Average employees:** 8
- **Coal supply region:** Appalachia Northern
- **Union code:** Not published
- **Published rows under this MSHA ID:** 2

## Recent Title 30 crosswalk

Snapshot current through 2026-08-19.

- **30 CFR 77.1104 — Accumulations of combustible materials.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1104
- **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 77.1606 — Loading and haulage equipment; inspection and maintenance.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1606
- **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 77.404 — Machinery and equipment; operation and maintenance.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.404

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 18 rows; 2006-07-30 through 2023-01-14; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2023-09-19 through 2023-09-19; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 355 rows; 2005-03-21 through 2023-05-16; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 56 rows; 2008-06-10 through 2024-07-09; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 294 rows; 2005-03-21 through 2023-10-05; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 37 rows; 2008-07-28 through 2023-10-23; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 56 rows; 2006-10-20 through 2023-05-09; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 1,217 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 230 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 1983-12-01 through 2004-10-22; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 93 rows; 2005-03-11 through 2026-10-13; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 29 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 92 rows; 2005-09-26 through 2023-01-04; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 18 rows; 2007-04-30 through 2022-12-27; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 370 rows; 2005-03-21 through 2023-05-16; 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/star-bridge-preparation-plant-rail-load-4606736`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/star-bridge-preparation-plant-rail-load-4606736`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4606736/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4606736/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4606736/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`