# Whitetail Preparation Facility

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4608753
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Facility / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Preston, WV
- **Operator:** Kingwood Mining Company LLC
- **Controller:** Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, Inc
- **Public source rows linked:** 2,434
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, Inc (0127923) → Kingwood Mining Company LLC (0051089) → Whitetail Preparation Facility (4608753)**

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:** 1999-01-01 through 2003-01-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608753; 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 4608753; 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 4608753; 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 8 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 289 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 69 violation rows across the full record; 26 carry an S&S flag and $6,154 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 173 samples:** Occupational health samples 132 coal dust; 1 coal quartz; 40 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 2 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 520 employee hours and 1 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 21 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 5 contested-violation rows, 5 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 11 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 15 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 61 inspection events and 2K 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 77.502 — 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 77.1710 — Protective clothing; requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-R/section-77.1710
- **30 CFR 77.215-4 — Refuse piles; abandonment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.215-4
- **30 CFR 77.215 — Refuse piles; construction requirements.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.215
- **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 77.400 — Mechanical equipment guards.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.400
- **30 CFR 77.410 — Mobile equipment; automatic warning devices.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.410
- **30 CFR 77.1109 — Quantity and location of firefighting equipment.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1109
- **30 CFR 77.505 — Cable fittings; suitability.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.505

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 8 rows; 2000-02-24 through 2001-10-08; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2017-03-14 through 2017-03-14; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 61 rows; 2000-04-26 through 2011-04-07; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 5 rows; 2008-02-20 through 2011-03-18; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 132 rows; 2000-06-13 through 2013-12-11; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 11 rows; 2000-06-16 through 2010-03-11; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 5 rows; 2007-06-04 through 2009-10-26; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 1,588 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 297 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 1999-01-01 through 2003-02-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 61 rows; 2000-04-20 through 2017-02-14; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 122 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 29 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 40 rows; 2001-12-17 through 2008-10-21; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 1 rows; 2002-03-26 through 2002-03-26; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 69 rows; 2000-04-26 through 2011-04-07; 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/whitetail-preparation-facility-4608753`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/whitetail-preparation-facility-4608753`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4608753/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4608753/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4608753/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`