# Apache Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4609180
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Mcdowell, WV
- **Operator:** The New West Virginia Mining Company
- **Controller:** Brandy M  Horvath
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,270
- **Source coverage:** 16 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Brandy M  Horvath (0073073) → The New West Virginia Mining Company (0086784) → Apache Mine (4609180)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Michael D  Poskas → Postar Coal Company, Inc.:** 2006-08-28 through 2007-05-20; derived from co-tenure at mine 4609180; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Michael R  Shelton → Hardrock Coal Company, Inc.:** 2007-05-21 through 2008-08-27; derived from co-tenure at mine 4609180; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Brandy M  Horvath → The New West Virginia Mining Company:** 2008-08-28 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4609180; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 3
- Typed edges: 9
- 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 141 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 367 violation rows across the full record; 157 carry an S&S flag and $1,338,086 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 244 samples:** Occupational health samples 211 coal dust; 13 coal quartz; 20 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 0 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 10 employee hours and 1 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 204 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 102 contested-violation rows, 102 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 36 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 75.1725 — 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 75.512 — Electric equipment; examination, testing and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.512
- **30 CFR 75.520 — Electric equipment; switches.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.520
- **30 CFR 75.223 — Evaluation and revision of roof control plan.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-C/section-75.223
- **30 CFR 41.12 — Changes; notification by operator.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-G/part-41/subpart-B/section-41.12
- **30 CFR 75.203 — Mining methods.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-C/section-75.203
- **30 CFR 75.521 — Lightning arresters; ungrounded and exposed power conductors and telephone wires.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.521
- **30 CFR 75.901 — Protection of low- and medium-voltage three-phase circuits used underground.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-J/section-75.901
- **30 CFR 75.900 — Low- and medium-voltage circuits serving three-phase alternating current equipment; circuit breakers.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-J/section-75.900
- **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

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 13 rows; 2009-01-07 through 2011-03-02; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2012-03-01 through 2012-03-01; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 350 rows; 2007-07-17 through 2011-03-03; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 102 rows; 2009-01-28 through 2015-05-28; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 211 rows; 2007-01-18 through 2011-01-24; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Contested Violations:** 102 rows; 2007-09-05 through 2010-01-20; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 18 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:** 3 rows; 2006-08-28 through 2008-08-28; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 36 rows; 2007-03-28 through 2012-02-29; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 20 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 7 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 20 rows; 2008-02-25 through 2010-09-15; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 13 rows; 2007-10-03 through 2010-09-15; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 367 rows; 2007-07-17 through 2011-03-03; 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/apache-mine-4609180`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/apache-mine-4609180`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4609180/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4609180/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4609180/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`