# Big Creek No 2 Surface Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4607934
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Fayette, WV
- **Operator:** Lexington Coal Company, LLC
- **Controller:** Lexington Coal Holdings, Inc
- **Public source rows linked:** 2,795
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Lexington Coal Holdings, Inc (0137221) → Lexington Coal Company, LLC (0154153) → Big Creek No 2 Surface Mine (4607934)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Imperial-Pacific Investments Inc → Hawks Nest Mining Company:** 1990-09-01 through 1994-02-23; derived from co-tenure at mine 4607934; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Pittston Company → Vandalia Resources Inc:** 1994-02-24 through 2003-11-13; derived from co-tenure at mine 4607934; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **John C  Smith Jr → Appalachian Fuels LLC:** 2003-11-14 through 2006-01-16; derived from co-tenure at mine 4607934; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Energy Coal Resources Inc → Appalachian Fuels LLC:** 2006-01-17 through 2009-10-15; derived from co-tenure at mine 4607934; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Massey Energy Company → Mammoth Coal Co:** 2009-10-16 through 2011-05-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 4607934; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. → Mammoth Coal Co:** 2011-06-01 through 2016-07-25; derived from co-tenure at mine 4607934; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, Inc → Mammoth Coal Co:** 2016-07-26 through 2017-10-22; derived from co-tenure at mine 4607934; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Lexington Coal Holdings, Inc → Lexington Coal Company, LLC:** 2017-10-23 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4607934; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Metallurgical Resources Inc → Mammoth Coal Co:** 2018-11-09 through 2017-10-22; derived from co-tenure at mine 4607934; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 9
- Typed edges: 23
- Interval anomalies: 1
- 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 16 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 280 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 211 violation rows across the full record; 145 carry an S&S flag and $76,794 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 87 samples:** Occupational health samples 71 coal dust; 1 coal quartz; 15 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 6 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 — 65 tons:** Quarterly production and employment 1K employee hours and 4 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 75 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 35 contested-violation rows, 35 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 5 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 27 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 53 inspection events and 2K 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 48.29 — Records of training.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-B/section-48.29
- **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 77.404 — 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 77.1004 — Ground control; inspection and maintenance; general.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-K/section-77.1004
- **30 CFR 77.1104 — Accumulations of combustible materials.** (1 retained recent row) — 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.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.410
- **30 CFR 77.1607 — Loading and haulage equipment; operation.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1607
- **30 CFR 77.1605 — Loading and haulage equipment; installations.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1605
- **30 CFR 77.1109 — Quantity and location of firefighting equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1109
- **30 CFR 77.204 — Openings in surface installations; safeguards.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.204

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 16 rows; 2000-05-15 through 2012-04-02; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2015-04-06 through 2015-04-06; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 209 rows; 2000-04-27 through 2013-11-20; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 35 rows; 2008-03-05 through 2010-08-31; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 71 rows; 2000-05-03 through 2013-11-19; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 5 rows; 2000-12-04 through 2007-06-05; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 35 rows; 2007-05-02 through 2009-02-10; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 1,767 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 342 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 9 rows; 1990-09-01 through 2017-10-23; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 53 rows; 2000-04-06 through 2014-12-30; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 12 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 12 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 15 rows; 2001-06-28 through 2013-11-19; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 1 rows; 2005-07-25 through 2005-07-25; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 211 rows; 2000-04-27 through 2013-11-20; 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/big-creek-no-2-surface-mine-4607934`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/big-creek-no-2-surface-mine-4607934`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4607934/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4607934/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4607934/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`