# No. 45 Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4608358
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Mcdowell, WV
- **Operator:** New Country Mining, Inc.
- **Controller:** Darrell  Felts
- **Public source rows linked:** 474
- **Source coverage:** 14 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Darrell  Felts (0041014) → New Country Mining, Inc. (0050683) → No. 45 Mine (4608358)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Barry  Cline → Cross Roads Mining Inc:** 1993-11-01 through 1994-04-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608358; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Pat B  McCutcheon → D & A Resources Inc:** 1994-05-01 through 1996-09-02; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608358; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **James C  Justice II et al → Captain & Toby Inc:** 1996-09-03 through 2001-01-21; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608358; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Raymond E  Hagerman → Captain & Toby Inc:** 2001-01-22 through 2001-06-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608358; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Henry Dale  Shrewsbury → S & S Leasing Inc:** 2001-07-01 through 2002-07-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608358; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Darrell  Felts → New Country Mining, Inc.:** 2002-08-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608358; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 6
- Typed edges: 18
- 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 2 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 375 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 78 violation rows across the full record; 17 carry an S&S flag and $6,010 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 220 samples:** Occupational health samples 178 coal dust; 10 coal quartz; 32 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 5 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 — 9K tons:** Quarterly production and employment 3K employee hours and 8 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 0 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 0 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 0 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 2 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 57 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 75.370 — Mine ventilation plan; submission and approval.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.370
- **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 75.360 — 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 75.1722 — Mechanical equipment guards.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1722
- **30 CFR 75.1200 — Mine map.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-M/section-75.1200
- **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 75.372 — Mine ventilation map.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.372
- **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 75.320 — Air quality detectors and measurement devices.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.320

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 2 rows; 2002-01-25 through 2003-04-14; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2010-02-17 through 2010-02-17; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 74 rows; 2000-02-15 through 2003-06-12; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 178 rows; 2000-01-21 through 2003-05-05; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 3 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 3 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 6 rows; 1993-11-01 through 2002-08-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 57 rows; 2000-01-31 through 2003-08-27; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 22 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 7 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 32 rows; 2000-02-15 through 2003-02-03; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 10 rows; 2000-02-23 through 2003-02-03; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 78 rows; 2000-02-15 through 2003-06-12; 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/no-45-mine-4608358`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/no-45-mine-4608358`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4608358/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4608358/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4608358/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`