# Refuse Area No. 1

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4608950
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Marion, WV
- **Operator:** Quality Reclamation Services, LLC
- **Controller:** Dale L  Malinzak; William B  Kania
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,370
- **Source coverage:** 13 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Dale L  Malinzak; William B  Kania (0042521) → Quality Reclamation Services, LLC (0051845) → Refuse Area No. 1 (4608950)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Dale L  Malinzak → M. W. Platt, Inc.:** 2002-02-18 through 2003-09-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608950; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **William B  Kania et al → Quality Reclamation Services, LLC:** 2003-10-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608950; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Dale L  Malinzak et al → Quality Reclamation Services, LLC:** 2003-10-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4608950; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 3
- Typed edges: 7
- 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 3 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 237 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 15 violation rows across the full record; 6 carry an S&S flag and $1,258 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 158 samples:** Occupational health samples 112 coal dust; 46 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 — 0 tons:** Quarterly production and employment 6K employee hours and 18 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 0 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 0 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 0 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 3 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 29 inspection events and 566 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 77.1713 — 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 77.1001 — Stripping; loose material.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-K/section-77.1001
- **30 CFR 77.1605 — Loading and haulage equipment; installations.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1605
- **30 CFR 77.410 — Mobile equipment; automatic warning devices.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.410
- **30 CFR 47.42 — Label contents.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-47/subpart-E/section-47.42
- **30 CFR 77.207 — Illumination.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.207
- **30 CFR 48.28 — Annual refresher training of miners; minimum courses of instruction; hours of instruction.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-B/section-48.28
- **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:** 3 rows; 2003-02-14 through 2017-01-19; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2011-05-18 through 2011-05-18; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 15 rows; 2003-02-20 through 2010-07-28; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 112 rows; 2003-02-20 through 2011-03-09; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 903 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 196 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 2002-02-18 through 2003-10-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 29 rows; 2002-08-26 through 2011-03-29; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 36 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 10 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 46 rows; 2002-08-29 through 2011-03-09; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Violations:** 15 rows; 2003-02-20 through 2010-07-28; 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/refuse-area-no-1-4608950`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/refuse-area-no-1-4608950`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4608950/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4608950/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4608950/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`