# Skitter Creek Mine No 1

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4608476
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Fayette, WV
- **Operator:** C C Coal Company
- **Controller:** Horizon Natural Resources Incorporated
- **Public source rows linked:** 524
- **Source coverage:** 16 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Horizon Natural Resources Incorporated (C06656) → C C Coal Company (P24021) → Skitter Creek Mine No 1 (4608476)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Carl F  Frischkorn → Battle Ridge Companies:** 1995-03-01 through 1998-08-20; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608476; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Horizon Natural Resources Incorporated → C C Coal Company:** 1998-08-21 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608476; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 2
- Typed edges: 6
- 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: 2026-10-17T05:35:58.500035+00:00.

## Assessment signals

1. **SAFETY — 0 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 14 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 670 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 47 violation rows across the full record; 34 carry an S&S flag and $9,909 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 35 samples:** Occupational health samples 26 coal dust; 4 coal quartz; 5 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 2 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 — 7K tons:** Quarterly production and employment 4K employee hours and 6 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 16 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 2 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 14 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 3 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 542 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 77.410 — Mobile equipment; automatic warning devices.** (4 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.410
- **30 CFR 71.400 — Bathing facilities; change rooms; sanitary flush toilet facilities.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-71/subpart-E/section-71.400
- **30 CFR 77.1005 — Scaling highwalls; general.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-K/section-77.1005
- **30 CFR 72.620 — Drill dust control at surface mines and surface areas of underground mines.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-72/subpart-E/section-72.620
- **30 CFR 77.1606 — Loading and haulage equipment; inspection and maintenance.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1606
- **30 CFR 77.1001 — Stripping; loose material.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-K/section-77.1001
- **30 CFR 77.207 — Illumination.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.207

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 14 rows; 2000-01-04 through 2003-01-22; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2004-09-15 through 2004-09-15; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 44 rows; 2000-04-27 through 2003-11-10; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 2 rows; 2002-02-14 through 2002-02-14; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 26 rows; 2000-05-17 through 2001-04-27; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 14 rows; 2000-08-03 through 2000-08-03; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 266 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 47 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 1995-03-01 through 1998-08-21; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 26 rows; 2000-02-11 through 2004-04-02; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 19 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:** 5 rows; 2000-06-28 through 2000-06-28; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 4 rows; 2000-05-17 through 2001-01-26; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 47 rows; 2000-04-27 through 2003-11-10; 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/skitter-creek-mine-no-1-4608476`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/skitter-creek-mine-no-1-4608476`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4608476/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4608476/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4608476/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`