# King Mine #1

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4608880
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Upshur, WV
- **Operator:** Scorpio Mining Inc
- **Controller:** Joe D  Richards
- **Public source rows linked:** 708
- **Source coverage:** 15 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Joe D  Richards (C13918) → Scorpio Mining Inc (P20437) → King Mine #1 (4608880)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Joe D  Richards → Scorpio Mining Inc:** 2001-03-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608880; 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: 2026-10-13T11:19:05.459773+00:00.

## Assessment signals

1. **SAFETY — 0 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 13 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 60 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 106 violation rows across the full record; 17 carry an S&S flag and $9,577 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 345 samples:** Occupational health samples 318 coal dust; 8 coal quartz; 19 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 — 2K tons:** Quarterly production and employment 5K employee hours and 15 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 4 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 4 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 0 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 1 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 55 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 75.403 — Maintenance of incombustible content of rock dust.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-E/section-75.403
- **30 CFR 75.1103-4 — Automatic fire sensor and warning device systems; installation; minimum requirements.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-L/section-75.1103-4
- **30 CFR 75.370 — Mine ventilation plan; submission and approval.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.370
- **30 CFR 75.321 — Air quality.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.321
- **30 CFR 75.364 — Weekly examination.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.364
- **30 CFR 75.1100-2 — Quantity and location of firefighting equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-L/section-75.1100-2
- **30 CFR 75.400 — Accumulation of combustible materials.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-E/section-75.400
- **30 CFR 75.503 — Permissible electric face equipment; maintenance.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.503

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 13 rows; 2002-02-11 through 2005-06-12; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2005-09-21 through 2005-09-21; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 105 rows; 2001-06-04 through 2005-06-01; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 4 rows; 2004-10-20 through 2004-10-20; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 318 rows; 2001-04-25 through 2018-03-14; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 32 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 6 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 2001-03-01 through 2001-03-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 55 rows; 2001-03-14 through 2005-07-05; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 31 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 8 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 19 rows; 2001-09-10 through 2005-05-03; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 8 rows; 2001-05-23 through 2004-11-09; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 106 rows; 2001-06-04 through 2005-06-01; 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/king-mine-1-4608880`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/king-mine-1-4608880`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4608880/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4608880/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4608880/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`