# Hatfield Energy Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4609254
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Logan, WV
- **Operator:** Lexington Coal Company, LLC
- **Controller:** Lexington Coal Holdings, Inc
- **Public source rows linked:** 3,670
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Lexington Coal Holdings, Inc (0137221) → Lexington Coal Company, LLC (0154153) → Hatfield Energy Mine (4609254)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Massey Energy Company → Spartan Mining Company LLC:** 2008-01-07 through 2011-05-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 4609254; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. → Spartan Mining Company LLC:** 2011-06-01 through 2016-07-25; derived from co-tenure at mine 4609254; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, Inc → Spartan Mining Company LLC:** 2016-07-26 through 2017-10-22; derived from co-tenure at mine 4609254; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Lexington Coal Holdings, Inc → Lexington Coal Company, LLC:** 2017-10-23 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4609254; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Metallurgical Resources Inc → Spartan Mining Company LLC:** 2018-11-09 through 2017-10-22; derived from co-tenure at mine 4609254; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 5
- Typed edges: 12
- Interval anomalies: 1
- 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 15 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 66 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 400 violation rows across the full record; 135 carry an S&S flag and $275,931 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 718 samples:** Occupational health samples 625 coal dust; 43 coal quartz; 50 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 — 0 tons:** Quarterly production and employment 0 employee hours and 0 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 281 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 140 contested-violation rows, 140 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 1 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 8 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 47 inspection events and 3K 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 77.516 — Electric wiring and equipment; installation and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.516
- **30 CFR 75.1403 — Other safeguards.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-O/section-75.1403
- **30 CFR 75.1715 — Identification check system.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1715
- **30 CFR 75.1103-1 — Automatic fire sensors.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-L/section-75.1103-1
- **30 CFR 75.1103-8 — Automatic fire sensor and warning device systems; examination and test requirements.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-L/section-75.1103-8
- **30 CFR 62.174 — Follow-up corrective measures when a standard threshold shift is detected.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-M/part-62/section-62.174
- **30 CFR 62.171 — Audiometric test procedures.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-M/part-62/section-62.171
- **30 CFR 50.20 — Preparation and submission of MSHA Report Form 7000-1—Mine Accident, Injury, and Illness Report.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-C/section-50.20
- **30 CFR 50.40 — Maintenance of records.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-E/section-50.40
- **30 CFR 77.1607 — Loading and haulage equipment; operation.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1607
- **30 CFR 77.1605 — Loading and haulage equipment; installations.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1605

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 15 rows; 2008-07-11 through 2012-05-22; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2018-07-26 through 2018-07-26; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 385 rows; 2008-05-27 through 2012-11-20; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 140 rows; 2010-11-26 through 2013-11-20; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 625 rows; 2008-08-04 through 2012-09-21; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 1 rows; 2012-10-26 through 2012-10-26; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 140 rows; 2008-05-27 through 2012-05-23; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 1,431 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 305 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 5 rows; 2008-01-07 through 2017-10-23; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 47 rows; 2008-04-02 through 2013-08-01; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 72 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 9 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 50 rows; 2008-08-04 through 2012-03-23; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 43 rows; 2008-08-04 through 2012-06-11; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 400 rows; 2008-05-27 through 2012-11-20; 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/hatfield-energy-mine-4609254`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/hatfield-energy-mine-4609254`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4609254/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4609254/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4609254/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`