# Affinity Preparation Plant

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4608879
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Facility / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Raleigh, WV
- **Operator:** Pocahontas Coal Company, LLC
- **Controller:** Metinvest B V
- **Public source rows linked:** 2,686
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Metinvest B V (0085453) → Pocahontas Coal Company, LLC (0118488) → Affinity Preparation Plant (4608879)**

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 → White Mountain Mining Company Llc:** 2001-02-01 through 2009-09-23; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608879; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Metinvest B V → Pocahontas Coal Company LLC:** 2009-09-24 through 2011-06-09; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608879; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **United  Company → Pocahontas Coal Company LLC:** 2009-09-24 through 2009-04-29; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608879; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Metinvest B V → Pocahontas Coal Company, LLC:** 2011-06-10 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608879; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 4
- Typed edges: 11
- Interval anomalies: 1
- 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 — 4 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 11 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 960 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 68 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 140 violation rows across the full record; 15 carry an S&S flag and $26,682 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 388 samples:** Occupational health samples 293 coal dust; 15 coal quartz; 80 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 9 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 14K employee hours and 23 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 22 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 8 contested-violation rows, 8 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 6 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 9 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 — 88 since 2021:** Inspections 230 inspection events and 5K published inspection hours across the historical record.

## EIA annual operating context

- **Reporting year:** 2024
- **Production:** 0 short tons
- **Labor hours:** 62,991
- **Average employees:** 23
- **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 77.1606 — Loading and haulage equipment; inspection and maintenance.** (5 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1606
- **30 CFR 77.202 — Dust accumulations in surface installations.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.202
- **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.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.400
- **30 CFR 77.1110 — Examination and maintenance of firefighting equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1110
- **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 77.410 — 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

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 11 rows; 2010-10-27 through 2024-12-10; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2016-02-01 through 2016-02-01; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 140 rows; 2001-06-21 through 2026-04-23; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 8 rows; 2013-05-30 through 2025-12-17; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 293 rows; 2011-09-22 through 2026-08-27; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 6 rows; 2015-04-16 through 2025-09-03; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 8 rows; 2010-03-09 through 2025-03-26; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 1,272 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 270 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 4 rows; 2001-02-01 through 2011-06-10; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 230 rows; 2001-06-11 through 2026-09-09; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 181 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 26 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 80 rows; 2011-09-22 through 2025-12-09; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 15 rows; 2014-12-09 through 2025-10-02; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 140 rows; 2001-06-21 through 2026-04-23; 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/affinity-preparation-plant-4608879`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/affinity-preparation-plant-4608879`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4608879/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4608879/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4608879/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`