# Cherokee Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4608048
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Mcdowell, WV
- **Operator:** Riverside Energy Company, LLC
- **Controller:** Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, Inc
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,767
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, Inc (0127923) → Riverside Energy Company, LLC (0054316) → Cherokee Mine (4608048)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Edward A  Asbury → Double Take Mining Company Inc:** 1991-05-01 through 1999-01-27; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608048; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Charles H  Powell → Red Hawk Mining Inc:** 1999-01-28 through 2002-04-07; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608048; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Wiley V  Cullop III → Whitby Creek Industries, Inc.:** 2002-04-08 through 2002-11-26; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608048; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Gary D  Spurlock → Copperas Coal Corp:** 2002-11-27 through 2003-09-09; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608048; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **William F  Adams → W A Mining Inc:** 2003-09-10 through 2011-04-03; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608048; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. → Riverside Energy Company, LLC:** 2011-04-04 through 2016-07-25; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608048; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, Inc → Riverside Energy Company, LLC:** 2016-07-26 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608048; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 7
- Typed edges: 20
- 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 31 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 1,226 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 331 violation rows across the full record; 122 carry an S&S flag and $96,829 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 485 samples:** Occupational health samples 421 coal dust; 34 coal quartz; 30 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 7 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 — 121 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 38 contested-violation rows, 38 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 45 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 3 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 94 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 75.360 — Preshift examination at fixed intervals.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.360
- **30 CFR 75.220 — Roof control plan.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-C/section-75.220
- **30 CFR 75.202 — Protection from falls of roof, face and ribs.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-C/section-75.202
- **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 75.1714-2 — Self-rescue devices; use and location requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1714-2
- **30 CFR 75.512 — Electric equipment; examination, testing and maintenance.** (4 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.512
- **30 CFR 75.703 — Grounding offtrack direct-current machines and the enclosures of related detached components.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-H/section-75.703
- **30 CFR 75.1100-3 — Condition and examination of firefighting equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-L/section-75.1100-3

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 31 rows; 2000-01-27 through 2004-08-16; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2012-02-29 through 2012-02-29; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 315 rows; 2000-02-23 through 2008-03-28; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 38 rows; 2009-01-27 through 2013-02-27; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 421 rows; 2000-02-14 through 2008-02-08; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 45 rows; 2000-04-18 through 2008-04-11; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 38 rows; 2007-02-11 through 2008-05-23; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 256 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 44 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 7 rows; 1991-05-01 through 2011-04-04; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 94 rows; 2000-02-08 through 2012-02-29; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 71 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 10 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 30 rows; 2000-04-12 through 2006-07-24; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 34 rows; 2000-02-18 through 2007-05-23; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 331 rows; 2000-02-23 through 2008-03-28; 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/cherokee-mine-4608048`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/cherokee-mine-4608048`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4608048/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4608048/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4608048/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`