# BURNING SPRINGS MINE

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4608862
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Crushed, Broken Limestone NEC
- **Location:** Wood, WV
- **Operator:** Martin Marietta Materials Inc
- **Controller:** Martin Marietta Materials Inc
- **Public source rows linked:** 6,208
- **Source coverage:** 16 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Martin Marietta Materials Inc (M00174) → Martin Marietta Materials Inc (L16197) → BURNING SPRINGS MINE (4608862)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Martin Marietta Materials Inc → Martin Marietta Materials Inc:** 1999-05-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608862; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 1
- Typed edges: 3
- 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 — 2 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 30 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 116 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 4 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 426 violation rows across the full record; 102 carry an S&S flag and $196,377 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 480 samples:** Occupational health samples 459 personal; 21 area. 40 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 11K employee hours and 20 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 248 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 101 contested-violation rows, 91 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 56 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 18 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 — 35 since 2021:** Inspections 197 inspection events and 8K 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 56.5001 — Exposure limits for airborne contaminants.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-D/section-56.5001
- **30 CFR 57.4203 — Extinguisher recharging or replacement.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-C/section-57.4203
- **30 CFR 57.14101 — Brakes.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-M/section-57.14101
- **30 CFR 47.44 — Temporary, portable containers.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-47/subpart-E/section-47.44
- **30 CFR 57.4200 — General requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-C/section-57.4200
- **30 CFR 57.14205 — Machinery, equipment, and tools.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-M/section-57.14205
- **30 CFR 50.30 — Preparation and submission of MSHA Form 7000-2—Quarterly Employment and Coal Production Report.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-D/section-50.30
- **30 CFR 48.23 — Training plans; time of submission; where filed; information required; time for approval; method for disapproval; commencement of training; approval of instructors.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-B/section-48.23
- **30 CFR 57.12032 — Inspection and cover plates.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-K/section-57.12032
- **30 CFR 57.20003 — Housekeeping.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-S/section-57.20003

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 30 rows; 2001-01-11 through 2025-05-07; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2009-12-11 through 2009-12-11; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Metal and Nonmetal Area Samples:** 21 rows; 2010-02-03 through 2025-11-12; source ID `msha-area-samples`
- **Assessed Violations:** 416 rows; 2001-01-31 through 2023-11-15; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 91 rows; 2002-10-29 through 2019-06-17; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Conferences:** 56 rows; 2001-07-03 through 2019-03-14; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 101 rows; 2005-05-02 through 2019-01-08; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 3,571 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 752 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 1999-05-01 through 1999-05-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 197 rows; 2001-01-31 through 2026-10-01; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 10 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 75 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Metal and Nonmetal Personal Health Samples:** 459 rows; 2001-04-18 through 2026-10-06; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 426 rows; 2001-01-31 through 2023-11-15; 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/burning-springs-mine-4608862`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/burning-springs-mine-4608862`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4608862/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4608862/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4608862/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`