# Auger #1 Highland Mining Company

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4609032
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Logan, WV
- **Operator:** Administrative Services Inc
- **Controller:** Earl Austin  Scholl
- **Public source rows linked:** 108
- **Source coverage:** 11 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Earl Austin  Scholl (0043413) → Administrative Services Inc (0052554) → Auger #1 Highland Mining Company (4609032)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Earl Austin  Scholl → Administrative Services Inc:** 2004-04-19 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4609032; 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: 2026-10-17T05:35:58.500035+00:00.

## Assessment signals

1. **SAFETY — 0 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 0 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 9 violation rows across the full record; 1 carry an S&S flag and $984 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 25 samples:** Occupational health samples 12 coal dust; 13 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 — No published quarter:** Quarterly production and employment The source remains registered, but no mine-keyed quarterly production row was published.
5. **LEGAL — 6 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 3 contested-violation rows, 3 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 0 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 0 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 41 inspection events and 504 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 77.1000 — Highwalls, pits and spoil banks; plans.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-K/section-77.1000
- **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
- **30 CFR 77.1104 — Accumulations of combustible materials.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1104
- **30 CFR 62.130 — Permissible exposure level.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-M/part-62/section-62.130
- **30 CFR 77.1605 — Loading and haulage equipment; installations.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1605
- **30 CFR 71.500 — Sanitary toilet facilities at surface work sites; installation requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-71/subpart-F/section-71.500

## Source coverage

- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2021-07-27 through 2021-07-27; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 9 rows; 2015-09-02 through 2019-05-14; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 3 rows; 2005-03-10 through 2005-03-10; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 12 rows; 2008-09-29 through 2019-05-07; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Contested Violations:** 3 rows; 2004-07-27 through 2004-07-27; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 2004-04-19 through 2004-04-19; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 41 rows; 2004-07-27 through 2020-03-27; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 15 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 13 rows; 2008-09-29 through 2019-05-07; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Violations:** 9 rows; 2015-09-02 through 2019-05-14; 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/auger-1-highland-mining-company-4609032`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/auger-1-highland-mining-company-4609032`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4609032/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4609032/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4609032/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`