# Bullpen Fork Surface Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4608727
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Clay, WV
- **Operator:** Fola Coal Company, LLC
- **Controller:** CONSOL Energy Inc
- **Public source rows linked:** 124
- **Source coverage:** 12 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**CONSOL Energy Inc (C00692) → Fola Coal Company, LLC (P22485) → Bullpen Fork Surface Mine (4608727)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Pittston Company → Vandalia Resources Inc:** 1998-07-01 through 2002-01-07; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608727; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Amvest Corporation → Fola Coal Company, LLC:** 2002-01-08 through 2007-07-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608727; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **CONSOL Energy Inc → Fola Coal Company, LLC:** 2007-08-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608727; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 3
- Typed edges: 8
- 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 0 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 3 violation rows across the full record; 1 carry an S&S flag and $221 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 10 samples:** Occupational health samples 5 coal dust; 5 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 0 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 — 0 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 0 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 0 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 1 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 4 inspection events and 73 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 77.404 — Machinery and equipment; operation and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.404
- **30 CFR 48.28 — Annual refresher training of miners; minimum courses of instruction; hours of instruction.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-B/section-48.28

## Source coverage

- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2010-01-20 through 2010-01-20; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 3 rows; 2000-06-02 through 2000-06-02; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 5 rows; 2000-02-23 through 2000-06-02; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 75 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 16 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 1998-07-01 through 2002-01-08; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 4 rows; 2000-01-12 through 2000-11-27; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 7 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 5 rows; 2000-01-12 through 2000-01-12; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Violations:** 3 rows; 2000-06-02 through 2000-06-02; 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/bullpen-fork-surface-mine-4608727`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/bullpen-fork-surface-mine-4608727`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4608727/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4608727/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4608727/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`