# White Queen

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4608297
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Raleigh, WV
- **Operator:** Marfork Coal Company Inc
- **Controller:** Alpha Metallurgical Resources Inc
- **Public source rows linked:** 3,676
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Alpha Metallurgical Resources Inc (0127321) → Marfork Coal Company Inc (P22603) → White Queen (4608297)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Massey Energy Company → Marfork Coal Company Inc:** 1993-04-01 through 2011-05-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608297; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. → Marfork Coal Company Inc:** 2011-06-01 through 2016-07-25; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608297; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, Inc → Marfork Coal Company Inc:** 2016-07-26 through 2018-11-08; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608297; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Metallurgical Resources Inc → Marfork Coal Company Inc:** 2018-11-09 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608297; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 4
- Typed edges: 9
- 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 92 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 1,630 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 652 violation rows across the full record; 246 carry an S&S flag and $325,203 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 1K samples:** Occupational health samples 1,014 coal dust; 72 coal quartz; 28 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 11 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 — 160 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 61 contested-violation rows, 64 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 35 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 6 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 128 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 75.1711-2 — Sealing of slope or drift openings.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1711-2
- **30 CFR 77.502 — Electric equipment; examination, testing, and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.502
- **30 CFR 75.1714-7 — Multi-gas detectors.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1714-7
- **30 CFR 48.9 — Records of training.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-A/section-48.9
- **30 CFR 75.364 — Weekly examination.** (4 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.364
- **30 CFR 75.1715 — Identification check system.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1715
- **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 75.202 — Protection from falls of roof, face and ribs.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-C/section-75.202

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 92 rows; 2000-03-21 through 2009-03-05; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2019-12-18 through 2019-12-18; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 632 rows; 2000-01-04 through 2013-11-07; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 64 rows; 2003-04-09 through 2012-03-07; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 1,014 rows; 2000-01-11 through 2009-03-25; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 35 rows; 2001-04-10 through 2007-10-08; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 61 rows; 2005-06-02 through 2010-01-26; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 647 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 121 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 4 rows; 1993-04-01 through 1993-04-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 128 rows; 2000-01-03 through 2019-12-02; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 104 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 20 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 28 rows; 2000-01-11 through 2008-10-07; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 72 rows; 2001-01-17 through 2009-01-13; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 652 rows; 2000-01-04 through 2013-11-07; 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/white-queen-4608297`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/white-queen-4608297`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4608297/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4608297/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4608297/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`