# East Gulf Preparation Plant

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4608873
- **Status:** NonProducing
- **Type / commodity:** Facility / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Raleigh, WV
- **Operator:** Pocahontas Coal Company LLC
- **Controller:** Metinvest B V
- **Public source rows linked:** 2,942
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Metinvest B V (0085453) → Pocahontas Coal Company LLC (0065824) → East Gulf Preparation Plant (4608873)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **White Mountain Mining Co., LLC → Left Fork Processing Llc:** 2001-01-01 through 2001-05-15; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608873; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Greg  Bailey → Frontier Management Llc:** 2001-05-16 through 2005-09-11; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608873; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **White Mountain Mining Co., LLC → Shiloh Construction, LLC:** 2005-09-12 through 2005-10-18; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608873; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Greg  Bailey → Frontier Management LLC:** 2005-10-19 through 2005-11-14; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608873; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **United  Company → Pocahontas Coal Company LLC:** 2005-11-15 through 2009-04-29; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608873; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Metinvest B V → Pocahontas Coal Company LLC:** 2009-04-30 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608873; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 6
- Typed edges: 16
- 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 26 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 747 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 1 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 238 violation rows across the full record; 99 carry an S&S flag and $66,997 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 231 samples:** Occupational health samples 184 coal dust; 14 coal quartz; 33 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 4 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 4K employee hours and 9 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 98 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 45 contested-violation rows, 45 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 8 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 13 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 — 26 since 2021:** Inspections 149 inspection events and 3K 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 77.216 — Water, sediment, or slurry impoundments and impounding structures; general.** (5 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.216
- **30 CFR 77.1713 — Daily inspection of surface coal mine; certified person; reports of inspection.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-R/section-77.1713
- **30 CFR 77.1600 — Loading and haulage; general.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1600
- **30 CFR 77.511 — Danger signs at electrical installations.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.511
- **30 CFR 77.1103 — Flammable liquids; storage.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1103
- **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 77.1606 — 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

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 26 rows; 2001-03-19 through 2012-10-11; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2013-12-10 through 2013-12-10; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 238 rows; 2001-05-16 through 2023-08-07; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 45 rows; 2010-08-13 through 2015-10-31; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 184 rows; 2005-01-26 through 2014-06-24; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 8 rows; 2007-11-06 through 2008-07-24; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 45 rows; 2008-06-13 through 2014-03-27; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 1,587 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 324 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 6 rows; 2001-01-01 through 2005-11-15; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 149 rows; 2001-02-09 through 2026-10-05; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 13 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 30 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 33 rows; 2008-05-03 through 2014-06-24; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 14 rows; 2009-02-07 through 2013-11-04; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 238 rows; 2001-05-16 through 2023-08-07; 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/east-gulf-preparation-plant-4608873`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/east-gulf-preparation-plant-4608873`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4608873/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4608873/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4608873/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`