# Whitetail Kittanning Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4608751
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Preston, WV
- **Operator:** Kingwood Mining Company LLC
- **Controller:** Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, Inc
- **Public source rows linked:** 16,719
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, Inc (0127923) → Kingwood Mining Company LLC (0051089) → Whitetail Kittanning Mine (4608751)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **El Paso Energy Corp → Coastal Coal-West Virginia Llc:** 1998-12-01 through 2003-01-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608751; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. → Kingwood Mining Company LLC:** 2003-02-01 through 2016-07-25; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608751; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, Inc → Kingwood Mining Company LLC:** 2016-07-26 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608751; 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: 2026-10-17T05:35:58.500035+00:00.

## Assessment signals

1. **SAFETY — 0 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 782 historical accident/injury rows; 1 coded fatalities and 4,370 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 2,686 violation rows across the full record; 986 carry an S&S flag and $1,873,094 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 5K samples:** Occupational health samples 4,721 coal dust; 504 coal quartz; 197 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 99 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 — 577K tons:** Quarterly production and employment 125K employee hours and 229 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 1,751 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 644 contested-violation rows, 646 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 461 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 8 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 843 inspection events and 29K 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 75.506 — Electric face equipment; requirements for permissibility.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.506
- **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 75.1403 — Other safeguards.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-O/section-75.1403
- **30 CFR 75.1600-2 — Communication facilities; working sections; installation and maintenance requirements; audible or visual alarms.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-Q/section-75.1600-2
- **30 CFR 75.364 — Weekly examination.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.364
- **30 CFR 75.601-1 — Short circuit protection; ratings and settings of circuit breakers.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-G/section-75.601-1
- **30 CFR 75.516 — Power wires; support.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.516
- **30 CFR 75.1107-16 — Inspection of fire suppression devices.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-L/section-75.1107-16
- **30 CFR 75.1106-3 — Storage of liquefied and nonliquefied compressed gas cylinders; requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-L/section-75.1106-3

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 782 rows; 2000-01-26 through 2009-03-17; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2010-06-24 through 2010-06-24; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 2,607 rows; 2000-04-20 through 2009-03-18; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 646 rows; 2004-04-08 through 2017-03-20; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 4,721 rows; 2000-07-31 through 2009-03-18; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 461 rows; 2000-09-13 through 2009-01-29; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 644 rows; 2003-08-20 through 2009-03-18; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 2,183 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 396 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 1998-12-01 through 2003-02-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 843 rows; 2000-01-18 through 2010-06-22; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 24 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 20 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 197 rows; 2002-03-07 through 2008-10-02; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 504 rows; 2000-11-06 through 2008-11-13; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 2,686 rows; 2000-04-20 through 2009-03-18; 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/whitetail-kittanning-mine-4608751`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/whitetail-kittanning-mine-4608751`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4608751/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4608751/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4608751/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`