# Midland Trail Mine No. 1

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4608522
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Greenbrier, WV
- **Operator:** West Virginia Mine Power, Inc
- **Controller:** John B  Preece
- **Public source rows linked:** 898
- **Source coverage:** 16 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**John B  Preece (0065149) → West Virginia Mine Power, Inc (0077603) → Midland Trail Mine No. 1 (4608522)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Plaster Jackie L → Big John Mining Inc:** 1995-09-01 through 1997-11-10; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608522; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Rackwood Mineral Holdings Plc → Royal Scot Minerals Inc:** 1997-11-11 through 1998-03-11; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608522; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Brock Mining Inc → Brock Mining Inc:** 1998-03-12 through 1998-07-28; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608522; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Plaster Jackie L → P & W Mine Parts & Services Inc:** 1998-07-29 through 2001-09-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608522; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Jeffery A  Hoops → Raders Run Mining Llc:** 2001-10-01 through 2005-09-26; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608522; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Aaron M  Hodge → Midland Trail Mining LLC:** 2005-09-27 through 2007-01-14; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608522; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **John B  Preece → West Virginia Mine Power, Inc:** 2007-01-15 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608522; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 7
- Typed edges: 21
- 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 17 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 678 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 254 violation rows across the full record; 76 carry an S&S flag and $85,455 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 206 samples:** Occupational health samples 194 coal dust; 8 coal quartz; 4 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 — No published quarter:** Quarterly production and employment The source remains registered, but no mine-keyed quarterly production row was published.
5. **LEGAL — 58 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 23 contested-violation rows, 23 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 12 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 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 75.370 — 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 75.523-1 — Deenergization of self-propelled electric face equipment installation requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.523-1
- **30 CFR 75.1715 — Identification check system.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1715
- **30 CFR 75.1403 — Other safeguards.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-O/section-75.1403
- **30 CFR 75.1722 — Mechanical equipment guards.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1722
- **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 75.1702 — 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 75.523-3 — 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 75.340 — Underground electrical installations.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.340
- **30 CFR 75.515 — Cable fittings; suitability.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.515

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 17 rows; 2006-09-15 through 2009-01-05; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2009-08-26 through 2009-08-26; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 246 rows; 2006-02-06 through 2009-03-04; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 23 rows; 2011-03-04 through 2011-03-30; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 194 rows; 2006-02-27 through 2009-03-04; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 12 rows; 2006-05-03 through 2007-12-07; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 23 rows; 2008-08-11 through 2009-03-04; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 59 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 15 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 7 rows; 1995-09-01 through 2007-01-15; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 26 rows; 2006-02-02 through 2009-05-27; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 8 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 4 rows; 2008-03-23 through 2008-03-23; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 8 rows; 2006-06-22 through 2009-03-04; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 254 rows; 2006-02-06 through 2009-03-04; 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/midland-trail-mine-no-1-4608522`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/midland-trail-mine-no-1-4608522`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4608522/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4608522/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4608522/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`