# White Buck No 2

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4607042
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Greenbrier, WV
- **Operator:** White Buck Coal Company
- **Controller:** Alpha Natural Resources, Inc.
- **Public source rows linked:** 3,943
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. (0041211) → White Buck Coal Company (P23460) → White Buck No 2 (4607042)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **John B  Harris → John B Harris Inc:** 1985-12-01 through 1995-09-27; derived from co-tenure at mine 4607042; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Albert F  Robinson → Larc Inc:** 1995-09-28 through 1998-02-03; derived from co-tenure at mine 4607042; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **John B  Harris → Harris Export Coal Corp:** 1998-02-04 through 1999-03-03; derived from co-tenure at mine 4607042; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Kenneth Cline  Walls II → Kensar Inc:** 1999-03-04 through 2000-04-11; derived from co-tenure at mine 4607042; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Massey Energy Company → White Buck Coal Company:** 2000-04-12 through 2011-05-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 4607042; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. → White Buck Coal Company:** 2011-06-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4607042; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 6
- Typed edges: 17
- 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 49 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 424 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 758 violation rows across the full record; 269 carry an S&S flag and $172,437 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 905 samples:** Occupational health samples 830 coal dust; 57 coal quartz; 18 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 7 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 — 44 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 16 contested-violation rows, 24 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 4 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 — 0 since 2021:** Inspections 81 inspection events and 7K 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 75.1711 — Sealing of mines.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1711
- **30 CFR 75.1100-3 — Condition and examination of firefighting equipment.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-L/section-75.1100-3
- **30 CFR 75.202 — Protection from falls of roof, face and ribs.** (4 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-C/section-75.202
- **30 CFR 75.811 — High-voltage underground equipment; grounding.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-I/section-75.811
- **30 CFR 75.1200 — Mine map.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-M/section-75.1200
- **30 CFR 75.333 — Ventilation controls.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.333
- **30 CFR 75.1202 — Temporary notations, revisions, and supplements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-M/section-75.1202
- **30 CFR 77.1606 — Loading and haulage equipment; inspection and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1606

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 49 rows; 2000-07-28 through 2008-11-19; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2012-05-11 through 2012-05-11; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 745 rows; 2000-03-20 through 2010-02-08; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 24 rows; 2002-10-22 through 2012-03-07; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 830 rows; 2000-07-11 through 2009-04-02; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 4 rows; 2001-09-11 through 2003-07-15; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 16 rows; 2007-05-01 through 2009-09-16; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 1,033 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 176 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 6 rows; 1985-12-01 through 2000-04-12; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 81 rows; 2000-03-07 through 2010-08-06; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 120 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 24 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 18 rows; 2000-07-12 through 2008-02-11; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 57 rows; 2000-07-11 through 2008-02-06; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 758 rows; 2000-03-20 through 2010-02-08; 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/white-buck-no-2-4607042`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/white-buck-no-2-4607042`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4607042/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4607042/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4607042/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`