# No. 1

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4608474
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Mcdowell, WV
- **Operator:** Tazewell McDowell Coal, Inc.
- **Controller:** Robert B  Hurley
- **Public source rows linked:** 410
- **Source coverage:** 15 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Robert B  Hurley (0040976) → Tazewell McDowell Coal, Inc. (0050633) → No. 1 (4608474)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Ronald  Combs et al → Hiope Mining Inc:** 1995-03-01 through 1998-01-15; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608474; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Dowdy Dennis → Break Thru Mining Inc:** 1998-01-16 through 2001-02-19; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608474; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Ronald  Combs et al → Hiope Mining Inc:** 2001-02-20 through 2002-05-19; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608474; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Robert B  Hurley → Tazewell McDowell Coal, Inc.:** 2002-05-20 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608474; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 4
- Typed edges: 11
- 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 5 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 253 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 106 violation rows across the full record; 30 carry an S&S flag and $12,364 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 118 samples:** Occupational health samples 94 coal dust; 9 coal quartz; 15 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 0 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 — 22K tons:** Quarterly production and employment 7K employee hours and 21 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 5 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 0 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 5 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 39 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 75.364 — 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 75.1702 — Smoking; prohibition.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1702
- **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 75.220 — Roof control plan.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-C/section-75.220
- **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 75.1107-1 — Fire-resistant hydraulic fluids and fire suppression devices on underground equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-L/section-75.1107-1
- **30 CFR 75.503 — Permissible electric face equipment; maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.503
- **30 CFR 75.1716 — Operations under water.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1716

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 5 rows; 2001-05-03 through 2001-12-20; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2004-02-20 through 2004-02-20; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 101 rows; 2001-05-08 through 2003-12-02; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 94 rows; 2001-06-12 through 2004-01-02; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 5 rows; 2001-08-28 through 2003-07-29; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 6 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:** 4 rows; 1995-03-01 through 2002-05-20; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 39 rows; 2001-02-12 through 2004-02-05; 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:** 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; 2001-07-25 through 2003-11-12; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 9 rows; 2001-06-12 through 2003-11-12; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 106 rows; 2001-05-08 through 2003-12-02; 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-1-4608474`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/no-1-4608474`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4608474/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4608474/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4608474/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`