# White Flame Surface Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4608632
- **Status:** Temporarily Idled
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Mingo, WV
- **Operator:** Lexington Coal Company, LLC
- **Controller:** Lexington Coal Holdings, Inc
- **Public source rows linked:** 4,836
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Lexington Coal Holdings, Inc (0137221) → Lexington Coal Company, LLC (0154153) → White Flame Surface Mine (4608632)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Donald  Nicewonder → White Flame Energy, Inc:** 1997-04-01 through 2005-11-01; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608632; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. → White Flame Energy, Inc:** 2005-11-02 through 2013-12-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608632; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. → Premium Energy LLC:** 2014-01-01 through 2016-07-25; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608632; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, Inc → Premium Energy LLC:** 2016-07-26 through 2017-10-22; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608632; 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 4608632; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 5
- Typed edges: 13
- 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 40 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 1,645 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 8 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 349 violation rows across the full record; 179 carry an S&S flag and $124,629 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 293 samples:** Occupational health samples 213 coal dust; 6 coal quartz; 74 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 1 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 — 153 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 67 contested-violation rows, 78 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 8 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 39 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 — 14 since 2021:** Inspections 77 inspection events and 4K 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 77.1102 — Warning signs; smoking and open flame.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1102
- **30 CFR 71.501 — Sanitary toilet facilities; maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-71/subpart-F/section-71.501
- **30 CFR 77.1606 — Loading and haulage equipment; inspection and maintenance.** (5 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1606
- **30 CFR 77.904 — Identification of circuit breakers.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-J/section-77.904
- **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
- **30 CFR 77.1104 — Accumulations of combustible materials.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1104
- **30 CFR 71.403 — Waiver of surface facilities requirements; posting of waiver.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-71/subpart-E/section-71.403
- **30 CFR 71.402 — Minimum requirements for bathing facilities, change rooms, and sanitary flush toilet facilities.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-71/subpart-E/section-71.402

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 40 rows; 2000-01-11 through 2020-02-12; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2024-05-02 through 2024-05-02; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 346 rows; 2000-01-07 through 2022-10-26; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 78 rows; 2001-01-22 through 2013-10-23; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 213 rows; 2000-01-12 through 2024-02-20; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 8 rows; 2008-09-08 through 2019-02-04; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 67 rows; 2008-03-07 through 2012-01-31; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 2,752 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 574 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 5 rows; 1997-04-01 through 2017-10-23; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 77 rows; 2000-01-06 through 2026-09-28; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 203 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 42 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 74 rows; 2000-03-21 through 2024-02-20; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 6 rows; 2004-08-12 through 2022-10-28; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 349 rows; 2000-01-07 through 2022-10-26; 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/white-flame-surface-mine-4608632`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/white-flame-surface-mine-4608632`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4608632/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4608632/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4608632/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`