# Lilly Fork Surface Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4608155
- **Status:** Temporarily Idled
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Lignite)
- **Location:** Nicholas, WV
- **Operator:** Lexington Coal Company, LLC
- **Controller:** Lexington Coal Holdings, Inc
- **Public source rows linked:** 988
- **Source coverage:** 16 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Lexington Coal Holdings, Inc (0137221) → Lexington Coal Company, LLC (0154153) → Lilly Fork Surface Mine (4608155)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Massey Energy Company → Peerless Eagle Coal Company, LLC:** 1992-03-01 through 2011-05-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608155; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. → Peerless Eagle Coal Company, LLC:** 2011-06-01 through 2016-07-25; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608155; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, Inc → Peerless Eagle Coal Company, LLC:** 2016-07-26 through 2017-10-22; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608155; 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 4608155; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 4
- Typed edges: 10
- 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 10 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 177 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 48 violation rows across the full record; 18 carry an S&S flag and $8,242 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 72 samples:** Occupational health samples 43 coal dust; 29 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 4 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 735 employee hours and 2 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 17 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 8 contested-violation rows, 8 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 1 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 4 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 — 11 since 2021:** Inspections 66 inspection events and 1K 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 77.516 — Electric wiring and equipment; installation and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.516
- **30 CFR 77.1606 — Loading and haulage equipment; inspection and maintenance.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1606
- **30 CFR 71.404 — Application for waiver of surface facilities requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-71/subpart-E/section-71.404
- **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 77.1202 — Availability of mine map.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-M/section-77.1202
- **30 CFR 77.1104 — Accumulations of combustible materials.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1104
- **30 CFR 77.603 — Clamping of trailing cables to equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-G/section-77.603
- **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 77.600 — Trailing cables; short-circuit protection; disconnecting devices.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-G/section-77.600

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 10 rows; 2000-03-07 through 2014-04-01; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2014-08-15 through 2014-08-15; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 45 rows; 2001-04-04 through 2020-02-20; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 8 rows; 2008-04-16 through 2008-04-16; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 43 rows; 2000-10-24 through 2013-04-26; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 1 rows; 2004-02-04 through 2004-02-04; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 8 rows; 2007-06-05 through 2007-06-11; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 580 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 111 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 4 rows; 1992-03-01 through 2017-10-23; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 66 rows; 2000-01-11 through 2026-05-19; 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:** 21 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 29 rows; 2000-03-29 through 2013-04-26; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Violations:** 48 rows; 2001-04-04 through 2020-02-20; 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/lilly-fork-surface-mine-4608155`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/lilly-fork-surface-mine-4608155`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4608155/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4608155/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4608155/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`