# Holden No 22 Surface Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4608584
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Logan, WV
- **Operator:** Rio Group Inc
- **Controller:** Richard H  Abraham
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,091
- **Source coverage:** 15 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Richard H  Abraham (C00085) → Rio Group Inc (P24562) → Holden No 22 Surface Mine (4608584)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Jack  Easter → Land Investors Inc:** 1996-08-01 through 1999-09-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608584; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alvis  Porter → Rio Group Inc:** 1999-10-01 through 2001-01-07; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608584; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **William B  Brown Jr et al → Rio Group Inc:** 2001-01-08 through 2006-10-01; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608584; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Robert L  Lewis et al → Rio Group Inc:** 2001-01-08 through 2006-10-01; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608584; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Richard H  Abraham et al → Rio Group Inc:** 2006-10-02 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608584; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 5
- Typed edges: 12
- 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 249 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 43 violation rows across the full record; 38 carry an S&S flag and $7,134 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 73 samples:** Occupational health samples 60 coal dust; 2 coal quartz; 11 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 3 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 8K employee hours and 18 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 1 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 0 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 1 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 6 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 18 inspection events and 427 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 77.208 — Storage of materials.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.208
- **30 CFR 77.1606 — Loading and haulage equipment; inspection and maintenance.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1606
- **30 CFR 77.410 — Mobile equipment; automatic warning devices.** (1 retained recent row) — 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.** (5 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.404
- **30 CFR 77.502 — Electric equipment; examination, testing, and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.502

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 5 rows; 2001-05-26 through 2002-08-14; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2024-02-27 through 2024-02-27; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 43 rows; 2000-02-23 through 2002-03-22; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 60 rows; 2000-02-23 through 2002-02-21; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 1 rows; 2001-03-07 through 2001-03-07; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 705 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 155 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 5 rows; 1996-08-01 through 2001-01-08; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 18 rows; 2000-01-13 through 2003-01-23; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 31 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 10 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 11 rows; 2000-03-01 through 2001-07-16; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 2 rows; 2001-02-08 through 2001-07-16; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 43 rows; 2000-02-23 through 2002-03-22; 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/holden-no-22-surface-mine-4608584`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/holden-no-22-surface-mine-4608584`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4608584/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4608584/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4608584/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`