# Whitetail Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4608285
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Preston, WV
- **Operator:** Coastal Coal-West Virginia Llc
- **Controller:** El Paso Energy Corp
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,138
- **Source coverage:** 16 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**El Paso Energy Corp (C01883) → Coastal Coal-West Virginia Llc (P24023) → Whitetail Mine (4608285)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **El Paso Energy Corp → Coastal Coal-West Virginia Llc:** 1993-03-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608285; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 1
- Typed edges: 3
- 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 27 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 419 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 82 violation rows across the full record; 24 carry an S&S flag and $7,630 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 213 samples:** Occupational health samples 167 coal dust; 16 coal quartz; 30 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 30 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 318 employee hours and 1 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 5 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 2 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 3 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 1 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 26 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 75.1202 — Temporary notations, revisions, and supplements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-M/section-75.1202
- **30 CFR 75.364 — Weekly examination.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.364
- **30 CFR 75.370 — Mine ventilation plan; submission and approval.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.370
- **30 CFR 50.10 — Immediate notification.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-B/section-50.10
- **30 CFR 75.333 — Ventilation controls.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.333
- **30 CFR 75.380 — Escapeways; bituminous and lignite mines.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.380
- **30 CFR 75.1722 — Mechanical equipment guards.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1722
- **30 CFR 75.400 — Accumulation of combustible materials.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-E/section-75.400
- **30 CFR 75.807 — Installation of high-voltage transmission cables.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-I/section-75.807
- **30 CFR 70.208 — Quarterly sampling; mechanized mining units.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-70/subpart-C/section-70.208

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 27 rows; 2000-01-03 through 2002-05-06; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2002-01-25 through 2002-01-25; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 81 rows; 2000-01-06 through 2000-12-18; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 2 rows; 2001-02-09 through 2002-08-21; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 167 rows; 2000-01-19 through 2000-11-10; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 3 rows; 2000-02-24 through 2000-12-06; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 546 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 136 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 1993-03-01 through 1993-03-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 26 rows; 2000-01-03 through 2002-07-16; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 15 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 4 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 30 rows; 2000-02-14 through 2000-03-02; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 16 rows; 2000-02-10 through 2000-10-31; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 82 rows; 2000-01-06 through 2000-12-18; 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/whitetail-mine-4608285`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/whitetail-mine-4608285`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4608285/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4608285/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4608285/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`