# Kingston No 1

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4608625
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Fayette, WV
- **Operator:** Kingston Mining, Inc.
- **Controller:** Alpha Metallurgical Resources Inc
- **Public source rows linked:** 19,411
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Alpha Metallurgical Resources Inc (0127321) → Kingston Mining, Inc. (P23860) → Kingston No 1 (4608625)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Brock Mining Inc → Brock Mining Inc:** 1997-03-01 through 1997-09-26; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608625; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Rag Aktiengesellschaft → Kingston Mining, Inc.:** 1997-09-27 through 2004-07-29; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608625; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Foundation Coal Corporation → Kingston Mining, Inc.:** 2004-07-30 through 2009-07-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608625; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. → Kingston Mining, Inc.:** 2009-07-31 through 2016-07-25; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608625; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, Inc → Kingston Mining, Inc.:** 2016-07-26 through 2018-11-08; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608625; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Metallurgical Resources Inc → Kingston Mining, Inc.:** 2018-11-09 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608625; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 6
- Typed edges: 14
- 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 173 historical accident/injury rows; 1 coded fatalities and 7,432 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 3,109 violation rows across the full record; 619 carry an S&S flag and $2,264,116 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 9K samples:** Occupational health samples 7,831 coal dust; 561 coal quartz; 260 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 102 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 16 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 1,330 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 558 contested-violation rows, 558 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 214 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 14 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 251 inspection events and 27K 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 77.1109 — Quantity and location of firefighting equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1109
- **30 CFR 75.512-2 — Frequency of examinations.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.512-2
- **30 CFR 77.502-2 — Electric equipment; frequency of examination and testing.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.502-2
- **30 CFR 77.800-1 — Testing, examination, and maintenance of circuit breakers; procedures.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-I/section-77.800-1
- **30 CFR 75.900-3 — Testing, examination, and maintenance of circuit breakers; procedures.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-J/section-75.900-3
- **30 CFR 75.512 — Electric equipment; examination, testing and maintenance.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.512
- **30 CFR 75.333 — Ventilation controls.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.333
- **30 CFR 75.403 — Maintenance of incombustible content of rock dust.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-E/section-75.403
- **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 75.1731 — Maintenance of belt conveyors and belt conveyor entries.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1731

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 173 rows; 2000-01-28 through 2020-01-30; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2020-06-15 through 2020-06-15; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 3,062 rows; 2000-01-12 through 2020-05-27; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 558 rows; 2008-09-16 through 2020-11-09; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 7,831 rows; 2000-01-10 through 2020-06-19; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 214 rows; 2001-01-10 through 2020-08-24; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 558 rows; 2007-05-22 through 2020-03-10; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 2,226 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 370 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 6 rows; 1997-03-01 through 1997-09-27; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 251 rows; 2000-01-03 through 2020-06-12; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 185 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 45 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 260 rows; 2000-02-29 through 2019-12-02; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 561 rows; 2000-01-19 through 2019-12-03; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 3,109 rows; 2000-01-12 through 2020-05-27; 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/kingston-no-1-4608625`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/kingston-no-1-4608625`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4608625/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4608625/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4608625/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`