# Ruby Energy

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4608808
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Mingo, WV
- **Operator:** Pocahontas Processing, LLC
- **Controller:** John T  Quintrell
- **Public source rows linked:** 25,045
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**John T  Quintrell (0150681) → Pocahontas Processing, LLC (0179673) → Ruby Energy (4608808)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Massey Energy Company → Spartan Mining Company, LLC:** 1999-11-01 through 2011-05-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608808; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. → Spartan Mining Company, LLC:** 2011-06-01 through 2016-07-25; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608808; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, Inc → Spartan Mining Company, LLC:** 2016-07-26 through 2018-11-08; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608808; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Metallurgical Resources Inc → Spartan Mining Company, LLC:** 2018-11-09 through 2021-12-02; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608808; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **John T  Quintrell → Pocahontas Processing, LLC:** 2021-12-03 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608808; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 5
- Typed edges: 12
- 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 284 historical accident/injury rows; 2 coded fatalities and 9,578 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 4,449 violation rows across the full record; 1,114 carry an S&S flag and $6,883,143 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 9K samples:** Occupational health samples 8,147 coal dust; 478 coal quartz; 382 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 88 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 — 2,677 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 1,239 contested-violation rows, 1,245 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 193 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 14 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 — 8 since 2021:** Inspections 863 inspection events and 38K 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 75.517 — Power wires and cables; insulation and protection.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.517
- **30 CFR 75.380 — Escapeways; bituminous and lignite mines.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.380
- **30 CFR 75.1403 — Other safeguards.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-O/section-75.1403
- **30 CFR 75.360 — Preshift examination at fixed intervals.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.360
- **30 CFR 75.512 — Electric equipment; examination, testing and maintenance.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.512
- **30 CFR 75.518 — Electric equipment and circuits; overload and short circuit protection.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.518
- **30 CFR 75.601-1 — Short circuit protection; ratings and settings of circuit breakers.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-G/section-75.601-1
- **30 CFR 75.363 — Hazardous conditions and violations of mandatory health or safety standards; posting, correcting, and recording.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.363
- **30 CFR 75.1731 — Maintenance of belt conveyors and belt conveyor entries.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1731

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 284 rows; 2000-04-08 through 2020-09-14; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2023-01-30 through 2023-01-30; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 4,350 rows; 2000-01-17 through 2020-12-14; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 1,245 rows; 2007-02-15 through 2020-12-01; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 8,147 rows; 2000-01-18 through 2020-08-20; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 193 rows; 2000-10-19 through 2020-09-25; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 1,239 rows; 2004-04-13 through 2020-05-19; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 2,555 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 516 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 5 rows; 1999-11-01 through 2021-12-03; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 863 rows; 2000-01-04 through 2021-04-14; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 287 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 50 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 382 rows; 2003-09-16 through 2019-11-20; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 478 rows; 2000-01-18 through 2020-07-21; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 4,449 rows; 2000-01-17 through 2020-12-14; 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/ruby-energy-4608808`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/ruby-energy-4608808`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4608808/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4608808/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4608808/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`