# Laurel Creek Contour No. 1 Surface Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4607376
- **Status:** NonProducing
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Greenbrier, WV
- **Operator:** Aurevo Resources
- **Controller:** Bernard  Brown
- **Public source rows linked:** 806
- **Source coverage:** 14 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Bernard  Brown (0199721) → Aurevo Resources (0208933) → Laurel Creek Contour No. 1 Surface Mine (4607376)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Anderson James Et Al → Drennen Enterprises Inc:** 1987-09-01 through 1992-05-14; derived from co-tenure at mine 4607376; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **John E  Plaster → Sam Black Coal Sales Inc:** 1992-05-15 through 1997-02-05; derived from co-tenure at mine 4607376; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **El Paso Energy Corp → Coastal Coal-West Virginia Llc:** 1997-02-06 through 2011-10-17; derived from co-tenure at mine 4607376; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Xinergy Ltd → South Fork Coal Company, LLC:** 2011-10-18 through 2016-02-09; derived from co-tenure at mine 4607376; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **White Forest Resources, Inc → South Fork Coal Company, LLC:** 2016-02-10 through 2026-08-17; derived from co-tenure at mine 4607376; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Bernard  Brown → Aurevo Resources:** 2026-08-18 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4607376; 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: 2026-10-17T05:35:58.500035+00:00.

## Assessment signals

1. **SAFETY — 0 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 2 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 325 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 16 violation rows across the full record; 0 carry an S&S flag and $3,726 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 127 samples:** Occupational health samples 86 coal dust; 7 coal quartz; 34 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 4 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 — 1 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 0 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 1 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 4 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 — 15 since 2021:** Inspections 48 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 77.1104 — 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 77.410 — Mobile equipment; automatic warning devices.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.410
- **30 CFR 71.209 — Status change reports.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-71/subpart-C/section-71.209
- **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 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 72.620 — Drill dust control at surface mines and surface areas of underground mines.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-72/subpart-E/section-72.620

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 2 rows; 2018-09-05 through 2019-03-30; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2026-09-23 through 2026-09-23; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 14 rows; 2012-01-06 through 2018-08-21; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 86 rows; 2012-02-23 through 2019-05-13; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 1 rows; 2016-10-12 through 2016-10-12; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 467 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 115 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 6 rows; 1987-09-01 through 2026-08-18; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 48 rows; 2012-01-06 through 2026-09-23; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 8 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 34 rows; 2012-05-21 through 2018-11-07; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 7 rows; 2018-03-19 through 2018-11-07; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 16 rows; 2012-01-06 through 2019-03-31; 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/laurel-creek-contour-no-1-surface-mine-4607376`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/laurel-creek-contour-no-1-surface-mine-4607376`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4607376/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4607376/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4607376/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`