# Mountain View Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4609028
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Tucker, WV
- **Operator:** Mettiki Coal WV, LLC
- **Controller:** Alliance Resource Partners LP
- **Public source rows linked:** 25,199
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Alliance Resource Partners LP (C15455) → Mettiki Coal WV, LLC (0053958) → Mountain View Mine (4609028)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Alliance Resource Partners LP → Mettiki Coal WV, LLC:** 2004-08-27 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4609028; 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 — 86 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 434 historical accident/injury rows; 3 coded fatalities and 10,918 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 619 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 3,240 violation rows across the full record; 557 carry an S&S flag and $1,492,389 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 12K samples:** Occupational health samples 11,091 coal dust; 472 coal quartz; 587 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 157 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 — 82K tons:** Quarterly production and employment 44K employee hours and 97 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 561 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 184 contested-violation rows, 184 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 193 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 16 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 — 155 since 2021:** Inspections 498 inspection events and 52K published inspection hours across the historical record.

## EIA annual operating context

- **Reporting year:** 2024
- **Production:** 1,082,802 short tons
- **Labor hours:** 499,638
- **Average employees:** 237
- **Coal supply region:** Appalachia Northern
- **Union code:** Not published
- **Published rows under this MSHA ID:** 1

## Recent Title 30 crosswalk

Snapshot current through 2026-08-19.

- **30 CFR 75.1725 — Machinery and equipment; operation and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1725
- **30 CFR 75.370 — Mine ventilation plan; submission and approval.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.370
- **30 CFR 75.202 — Protection from falls of roof, face and ribs.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-C/section-75.202
- **30 CFR 75.362 — On-shift examination.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.362
- **30 CFR 75.220 — Roof control plan.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-C/section-75.220
- **30 CFR 75.400 — Accumulation of combustible materials.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-E/section-75.400
- **30 CFR 75.904 — Identification of circuit breakers.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-J/section-75.904
- **30 CFR 75.333 — Ventilation controls.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.333
- **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 75.1202 — Temporary notations, revisions, and supplements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-M/section-75.1202

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 434 rows; 2005-06-15 through 2026-09-17; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2005-07-18 through 2005-07-18; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 3,179 rows; 2005-04-20 through 2026-09-01; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 184 rows; 2009-05-29 through 2026-05-13; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 11,091 rows; 2005-08-22 through 2026-09-30; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 193 rows; 2006-10-20 through 2026-04-29; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 184 rows; 2007-07-24 through 2025-04-25; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 3,992 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 830 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 2004-08-27 through 2004-08-27; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 498 rows; 2005-04-18 through 2026-10-02; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 255 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 57 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 587 rows; 2005-09-12 through 2026-03-25; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 472 rows; 2005-09-13 through 2026-09-01; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 3,240 rows; 2005-04-20 through 2026-09-30; 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/mountain-view-mine-4609028`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/mountain-view-mine-4609028`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4609028/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4609028/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4609028/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`