# Shumate Upper Cedar Grove

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4608497
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Raleigh, WV
- **Operator:** Independence Coal Company Inc
- **Controller:** Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, Inc
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,135
- **Source coverage:** 16 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, Inc (0127923) → Independence Coal Company Inc (P21654) → Shumate Upper Cedar Grove (4608497)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Massey Energy Company → Independence Coal Company Inc:** 1995-05-01 through 2011-05-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608497; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. → Independence Coal Company Inc:** 2011-06-01 through 2016-07-25; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608497; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, Inc → Independence Coal Company Inc:** 2016-07-26 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608497; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 3
- Typed edges: 7
- 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 18 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 745 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 184 violation rows across the full record; 75 carry an S&S flag and $27,187 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 285 samples:** Occupational health samples 256 coal dust; 24 coal quartz; 5 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 — 0 tons:** Quarterly production and employment 0 employee hours and 0 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 5 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 1 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 4 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 4 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 47 inspection events and 2K 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.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.364
- **30 CFR 75.334 — Worked-out areas and areas where pillars are being recovered.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.334
- **30 CFR 75.1403-6 — Criteria—Self-propelled personnel carriers.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-O/section-75.1403-6
- **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 75.370 — 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 75.1103-1 — Automatic fire sensors.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-L/section-75.1103-1
- **30 CFR 75.512 — Electric equipment; examination, testing and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.512
- **30 CFR 75.904 — Identification of circuit breakers.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-J/section-75.904
- **30 CFR 75.1710 — Canopies or cabs; diesel-powered and electric face equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1710
- **30 CFR 75.523-3 — Automatic emergency-parking brakes.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.523-3
- **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

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 18 rows; 2000-01-12 through 2002-10-01; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2003-07-24 through 2003-07-24; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 178 rows; 2000-01-24 through 2003-04-07; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 1 rows; 2003-10-29 through 2003-10-29; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 256 rows; 2000-01-11 through 2003-03-13; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 4 rows; 2001-04-23 through 2001-04-23; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 313 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 63 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 1995-05-01 through 1995-05-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 47 rows; 2000-01-12 through 2003-10-24; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 30 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:** 5 rows; 2000-02-29 through 2000-02-29; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 24 rows; 2000-01-11 through 2002-12-11; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 184 rows; 2000-01-24 through 2003-04-07; 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/shumate-upper-cedar-grove-4608497`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/shumate-upper-cedar-grove-4608497`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4608497/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4608497/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4608497/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`