# No 13 Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4608407
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Boone, WV
- **Operator:** Long Branch Energy
- **Controller:** Long Branch Energy Corporation
- **Public source rows linked:** 672
- **Source coverage:** 14 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Long Branch Energy Corporation (C13737) → Long Branch Energy (P20124) → No 13 Mine (4608407)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **White Mountain Mining Co., LLC → Banner Coal & Land Company:** 1994-05-01 through 1997-07-13; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608407; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Carroll D  Simpkins → Banner Coal & Land Co.:** 1997-07-14 through 2003-08-21; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608407; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Long Branch Energy Corporation → Long Branch Energy:** 2003-08-22 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608407; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 3
- 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 30 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 1,907 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 97 violation rows across the full record; 25 carry an S&S flag and $10,919 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 302 samples:** Occupational health samples 259 coal dust; 28 coal quartz; 15 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 3 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 — 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 38 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 77.404 — Machinery and equipment; operation and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.404
- **30 CFR 75.807 — Installation of high-voltage transmission cables.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-I/section-75.807
- **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 75.503 — Permissible electric face equipment; maintenance.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.503
- **30 CFR 77.1104 — Accumulations of combustible materials.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1104
- **30 CFR 75.604 — Permanent splicing of trailing cables.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-G/section-75.604
- **30 CFR 75.1100-2 — Quantity and location of firefighting equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-L/section-75.1100-2
- **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

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 30 rows; 2000-03-04 through 2003-01-07; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2004-03-12 through 2004-03-12; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 93 rows; 2000-01-10 through 2002-07-30; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 259 rows; 2000-01-03 through 2002-07-01; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 56 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 11 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 1994-05-01 through 2003-08-22; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 38 rows; 2000-01-04 through 2004-02-02; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 34 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 6 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 15 rows; 2000-01-10 through 2001-09-12; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 28 rows; 2000-01-11 through 2002-04-23; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 97 rows; 2000-01-10 through 2002-07-30; 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-13-mine-4608407`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/no-13-mine-4608407`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4608407/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4608407/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4608407/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`