# KIAH CREEK PREPARATION PLANT

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4607809
- **Status:** NonProducing
- **Type / commodity:** Facility / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Wayne, WV
- **Operator:** ARGUS ENERGY WV LLC
- **Controller:** James H  Booth
- **Public source rows linked:** 3,844
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**James H  Booth (C11194) → ARGUS ENERGY WV LLC (0050985) → KIAH CREEK PREPARATION PLANT (4607809)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Pen Holdings Inc → Pen Coal Corporation:** 1989-11-01 through 2002-12-19; derived from co-tenure at mine 4607809; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **James H  Booth et al → Argus Energy WV LLC:** 2002-12-20 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4607809; 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 28 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 1,491 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 3 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 638 violation rows across the full record; 328 carry an S&S flag and $182,112 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 186 samples:** Occupational health samples 132 coal dust; 4 coal quartz; 50 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 10 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 11K employee hours and 16 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 309 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 147 contested-violation rows, 149 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 13 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 25 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 — 26 since 2021:** Inspections 242 inspection events and 4K 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 77.216-3 — Water, sediment, or slurry impoundments and impounding structures; inspection requirements; correction of hazards; program requirements.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.216-3
- **30 CFR 50.30 — Preparation and submission of MSHA Form 7000-2—Quarterly Employment and Coal Production Report.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-D/section-50.30
- **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 77.1605 — Loading and haulage equipment; installations.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1605
- **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
- **30 CFR 77.1110 — Examination and maintenance of firefighting equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1110
- **30 CFR 48.28 — 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-B/section-48.28
- **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
- **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

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 28 rows; 2000-02-27 through 2013-02-01; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2014-02-19 through 2014-02-19; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 629 rows; 2000-03-06 through 2022-09-15; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 149 rows; 2001-05-31 through 2017-10-03; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 132 rows; 2000-02-17 through 2013-08-05; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 13 rows; 2000-10-02 through 2014-01-16; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 147 rows; 2004-08-09 through 2016-10-24; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 1,473 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 297 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 1989-11-01 through 2002-12-20; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 242 rows; 2000-01-06 through 2026-09-08; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 13 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 25 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 50 rows; 2000-03-06 through 2013-08-05; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 4 rows; 2000-02-17 through 2013-08-05; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 638 rows; 2000-03-06 through 2022-09-15; 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/kiah-creek-preparation-plant-4607809`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/kiah-creek-preparation-plant-4607809`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4607809/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4607809/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4607809/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`