# ROCKSPRING PLANT

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4608030
- **Status:** NonProducing
- **Type / commodity:** Facility / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Wayne, WV
- **Operator:** Lexington Coal Company, LLC
- **Controller:** Lexington Coal Holdings, Inc
- **Public source rows linked:** 5,654
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Lexington Coal Holdings, Inc (0137221) → Lexington Coal Company, LLC (0154153) → ROCKSPRING PLANT (4608030)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Robert B  Beatty → Char-Coal Company Inc:** 1991-04-01 through 1994-01-12; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608030; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Edward  Malonis → Rockspring Development Inc:** 1994-01-13 through 1994-12-05; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608030; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Rag Aktiengesellschaft → Rockspring Development Inc:** 1994-12-06 through 2005-07-12; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608030; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Foundation Coal Corporation → Rockspring Development Inc:** 2005-07-13 through 2009-07-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608030; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. → Rockspring Development Inc:** 2009-07-31 through 2016-07-25; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608030; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, Inc → Rockspring Development Inc:** 2016-07-26 through 2017-10-22; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608030; 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 4608030; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 7
- Typed edges: 19
- 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 34 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 912 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 73 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 358 violation rows across the full record; 91 carry an S&S flag and $67,607 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 533 samples:** Occupational health samples 408 coal dust; 44 coal quartz; 81 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 15 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 — 26 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 10 contested-violation rows, 10 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 6 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 20 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 — 54 since 2021:** Inspections 227 inspection events and 6K 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 — Water, sediment, or slurry impoundments and impounding structures; general.** (5 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.216
- **30 CFR 77.216-4 — Water, sediment or slurry impoundments and impounding structures; reporting requirements; certification.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.216-4
- **30 CFR 77.205 — Travelways at surface installations.** (4 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.205

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 34 rows; 2001-08-21 through 2018-12-07; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2024-05-06 through 2024-05-06; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 338 rows; 2000-02-11 through 2026-06-03; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 10 rows; 2009-07-15 through 2015-03-13; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 408 rows; 2000-08-07 through 2023-03-28; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 6 rows; 2007-09-20 through 2016-06-14; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 10 rows; 2008-05-15 through 2014-02-20; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 3,240 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 644 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 7 rows; 1991-04-01 through 2017-10-23; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 227 rows; 2000-01-04 through 2026-09-14; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 203 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 42 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 81 rows; 2003-08-05 through 2023-02-14; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 44 rows; 2001-02-26 through 2021-05-25; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 358 rows; 2000-02-11 through 2026-06-03; 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/rockspring-plant-4608030`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/rockspring-plant-4608030`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4608030/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4608030/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4608030/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`