# Red Cedar Surface Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4608683
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Boone, WV
- **Operator:** Lexington Coal Company, LLC
- **Controller:** Lexington Coal Holdings, Inc
- **Public source rows linked:** 3,303
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Lexington Coal Holdings, Inc (0137221) → Lexington Coal Company, LLC (0154153) → Red Cedar Surface Mine (4608683)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Douglas M  Epling → Mountain Edge Mining Inc:** 1997-12-01 through 2002-06-27; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608683; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Massey Energy Company → Endurance Mining:** 2002-06-28 through 2011-05-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608683; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. → Endurance Mining:** 2011-06-01 through 2013-12-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608683; 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 4608683; 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 4608683; 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 4608683; 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 4608683; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 7
- Typed edges: 18
- Interval anomalies: 1
- 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 17 historical accident/injury rows; 1 coded fatalities and 1,583 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 13 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 327 violation rows across the full record; 173 carry an S&S flag and $557,493 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 137 samples:** Occupational health samples 99 coal dust; 4 coal quartz; 34 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 4 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 — 144 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 68 contested-violation rows, 60 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 16 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 18 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 — 10 since 2021:** Inspections 77 inspection events and 3K 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 71.501 — Sanitary toilet facilities; maintenance.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-71/subpart-F/section-71.501
- **30 CFR 77.1605 — Loading and haulage equipment; installations.** (4 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1605
- **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 77.1606 — Loading and haulage equipment; inspection and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1606
- **30 CFR 71.500 — Sanitary toilet facilities at surface work sites; installation requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-71/subpart-F/section-71.500
- **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

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 17 rows; 2000-02-16 through 2022-04-19; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2026-06-01 through 2026-06-01; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 314 rows; 2000-02-22 through 2022-08-08; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 60 rows; 2005-07-28 through 2012-03-07; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 99 rows; 2000-03-07 through 2022-09-27; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 16 rows; 2003-12-11 through 2005-03-10; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 68 rows; 2003-10-22 through 2009-08-17; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 1,708 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 306 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 7 rows; 1997-12-01 through 2017-10-23; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 77 rows; 2000-01-31 through 2025-10-24; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 232 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 32 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 34 rows; 2000-03-01 through 2022-06-01; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 4 rows; 2000-11-08 through 2022-06-01; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 327 rows; 2000-02-22 through 2022-08-08; 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/red-cedar-surface-mine-4608683`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/red-cedar-surface-mine-4608683`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4608683/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4608683/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4608683/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`