# West Cazy Surface Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4608549
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Boone, WV
- **Operator:** Lexington Coal Company, LLC
- **Controller:** Lexington Coal Holdings, Inc
- **Public source rows linked:** 2,254
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Lexington Coal Holdings, Inc (0137221) → Lexington Coal Company, LLC (0154153) → West Cazy Surface Mine (4608549)**

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:** 1996-02-01 through 2002-01-29; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608549; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Massey Energy Company → Endurance Mining:** 2002-01-30 through 2011-05-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608549; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. → Independence Coal Company Inc:** 2011-06-01 through 2002-01-29; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608549; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. → Endurance Mining:** 2011-06-01 through 2013-12-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608549; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. → Independence Coal Company, LLC:** 2014-01-01 through 2016-07-25; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608549; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Massey Energy Company → Independence Coal Company, LLC:** 2014-01-01 through 2011-05-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608549; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, Inc → Independence Coal Company Inc:** 2016-07-26 through 2002-01-29; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608549; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, Inc → Independence Coal Company, LLC:** 2016-07-26 through 2017-10-22; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608549; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Lexington Coal Holdings, Inc → Lexington Coal Company, LLC:** 2017-10-23 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608549; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 9
- Typed edges: 19
- Interval anomalies: 3
- 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 — 1 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 29 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 1,751 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 2 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 143 violation rows across the full record; 63 carry an S&S flag and $69,048 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 68 samples:** Occupational health samples 55 coal dust; 1 coal quartz; 12 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 — 0 tons:** Quarterly production and employment 0 employee hours and 0 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 54 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 28 contested-violation rows, 24 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 2 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 12 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 — 9 since 2021:** Inspections 63 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 77.410 — Mobile equipment; automatic warning devices.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.410
- **30 CFR 77.404 — Machinery and equipment; operation and maintenance.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.404
- **30 CFR 77.1605 — Loading and haulage equipment; installations.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1605
- **30 CFR 77.1606 — Loading and haulage equipment; inspection and maintenance.** (4 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1606

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 29 rows; 2004-12-03 through 2022-03-01; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2024-04-12 through 2024-04-12; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 137 rows; 2001-04-06 through 2021-12-14; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 24 rows; 2005-08-05 through 2011-11-18; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 55 rows; 2001-06-11 through 2022-12-28; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 2 rows; 2005-01-12 through 2005-01-12; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 28 rows; 2004-10-13 through 2009-06-23; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 1,243 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 278 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 9 rows; 1996-02-01 through 2017-10-23; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 63 rows; 2001-04-04 through 2024-01-28; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 213 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 15 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 12 rows; 2001-06-19 through 2007-11-13; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 1 rows; 2004-06-03 through 2004-06-03; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 143 rows; 2001-04-06 through 2021-12-14; 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/west-cazy-surface-mine-4608549`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/west-cazy-surface-mine-4608549`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4608549/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4608549/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4608549/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`