# Tommy Creek No 1 Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4607451
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Raleigh, WV
- **Operator:** Rhino Mining Inc
- **Controller:** Larry B  McKinney
- **Public source rows linked:** 88
- **Source coverage:** 9 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-18T09:31:49.615Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Larry B  McKinney (C15779) → Rhino Mining Inc (P24068) → Tommy Creek No 1 Mine (4607451)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Henry Paul  Kizer et al → Tommy Creek Coal Company:** 1988-01-01 through 1997-03-09; derived from co-tenure at mine 4607451; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Timothy L  McCoy → Mate Creek Loading Inc:** 1997-03-10 through 1999-02-14; derived from co-tenure at mine 4607451; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Larry B  McKinney → Rhino Mining Inc:** 1999-02-15 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4607451; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 3
- Typed edges: 9
- 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: 2026-10-18T09:31:49.615908+00:00.

## Assessment signals

1. **SAFETY — 0 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 0 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 28 violation rows across the full record; 14 carry an S&S flag and $13,279 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 12 samples:** Occupational health samples 11 coal dust; 1 coal quartz. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 0 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 — 5 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 0 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 5 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 0 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 14 inspection events and 378 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 75.1711-2 — Sealing of slope or drift openings.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1711-2
- **30 CFR 75.1711 — Sealing of mines.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1711
- **30 CFR 75.1712 — Bath houses and toilet facilities.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1712
- **30 CFR 41.12 — Changes; notification by operator.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-G/part-41/subpart-B/section-41.12
- **30 CFR 75.364 — Weekly examination.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.364
- **30 CFR 75.1713-2 — Emergency communications; requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1713-2
- **30 CFR 48.31 — Hazard training.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-B/section-48.31
- **30 CFR 75.372 — Mine ventilation map.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.372

## Source coverage

- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2000-11-03 through 2000-11-03; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 24 rows; 2000-01-04 through 2000-10-20; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 11 rows; 2000-01-12 through 2000-01-21; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 5 rows; 2000-01-27 through 2000-03-20; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 1988-01-01 through 1999-02-15; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 14 rows; 2000-01-03 through 2000-10-10; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 1 rows; 2000-01-12 through 2000-01-12; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 28 rows; 2000-01-04 through 2000-10-20; 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/tommy-creek-no-1-mine-4607451`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/tommy-creek-no-1-mine-4607451`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4607451/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4607451/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4607451/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`