# Fork Creek Prep Plant

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4608752
- **Status:** NonProducing
- **Type / commodity:** Facility / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Lincoln, WV
- **Operator:** Lexington Coal Company, LLC
- **Controller:** Lexington Coal Holdings, Inc
- **Public source rows linked:** 5,394
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Lexington Coal Holdings, Inc (0137221) → Lexington Coal Company, LLC (0154153) → Fork Creek Prep Plant (4608752)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Pen Holdings Inc → Fork Creek Mining Company:** 1998-12-01 through 2002-11-06; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608752; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Wendell R  Bias et al → 3-D Management Services, Inc.:** 2002-11-07 through 2003-07-01; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608752; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **James O  Bunn  et al → Coal River Processing LLC:** 2003-07-02 through 2018-05-22; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608752; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Franklin D  Robertson  et al → Coal River Processing LLC:** 2003-07-02 through 2018-05-22; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608752; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Lexington Coal Holdings, Inc → Lexington Coal Company, LLC:** 2018-05-23 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608752; 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 23 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 1,110 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 206 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 455 violation rows across the full record; 183 carry an S&S flag and $198,880 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 334 samples:** Occupational health samples 238 coal dust; 3 coal quartz; 93 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 11 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 — 178 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 81 contested-violation rows, 81 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 16 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 33 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 — 54 since 2021:** Inspections 214 inspection events and 6K published inspection hours across the historical record.

## EIA annual operating context

- **Reporting year:** 2024
- **Production:** 0 short tons
- **Labor hours:** 25,588
- **Average employees:** 10
- **Coal supply region:** Appalachia Central
- **Union code:** Not published
- **Published rows under this MSHA ID:** 2

## Recent Title 30 crosswalk

Snapshot current through 2026-08-19.

- **30 CFR 77.502-2 — Electric equipment; frequency of examination and testing.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.502-2
- **30 CFR 71.209 — Status change reports.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-71/subpart-C/section-71.209
- **30 CFR 77.216 — Water, sediment, or slurry impoundments and impounding structures; general.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.216
- **30 CFR 77.216-3 — Water, sediment, or slurry impoundments and impounding structures; inspection requirements; correction of hazards; program requirements.** (4 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.216-3
- **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 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 77.1004 — Ground control; inspection and maintenance; general.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-K/section-77.1004

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 23 rows; 2000-03-23 through 2019-09-21; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2026-08-06 through 2026-08-06; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 444 rows; 2000-06-06 through 2026-08-06; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 81 rows; 2008-06-02 through 2026-02-13; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 238 rows; 2000-09-13 through 2025-11-13; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 16 rows; 2001-07-31 through 2014-06-12; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 81 rows; 2006-09-26 through 2025-10-30; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 2,870 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 629 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 5 rows; 1998-12-01 through 2018-05-23; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 214 rows; 2000-01-03 through 2026-09-15; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 201 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 39 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 93 rows; 2000-09-12 through 2025-11-05; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 3 rows; 2018-06-20 through 2025-06-11; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 455 rows; 2000-06-06 through 2026-08-07; 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/fork-creek-prep-plant-4608752`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/fork-creek-prep-plant-4608752`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4608752/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4608752/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4608752/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`