# Mine No 6

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4609286
- **Status:** NonProducing
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Boone, WV
- **Operator:** Lexington Coal Company
- **Controller:** Lexington Coal Holdings, Inc
- **Public source rows linked:** 3,163
- **Source coverage:** 16 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Lexington Coal Holdings, Inc (0137221) → Lexington Coal Company (0154153) → Mine No 6 (4609286)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **James O  Bunn  et al → Coal River Mining LLC:** 2008-06-26 through 2018-05-22; derived from co-tenure at mine 4609286; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Franklin D  Robertson  et al → Coal River Mining LLC:** 2008-06-26 through 2018-05-22; derived from co-tenure at mine 4609286; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Lexington Coal Holdings, Inc → Lexington Coal Company:** 2018-05-23 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4609286; 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: 2026-10-17T05:35:58.500035+00:00.

## Assessment signals

1. **SAFETY — 2 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 10 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 660 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 187 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 312 violation rows across the full record; 125 carry an S&S flag and $467,377 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 322 samples:** Occupational health samples 233 coal dust; 23 coal quartz; 66 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 1 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 — 74 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 30 contested-violation rows, 30 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 14 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 15 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 — 36 since 2021:** Inspections 76 inspection events and 4K published inspection hours across the historical record.

## EIA annual operating context

- **Reporting year:** 2024
- **Production:** 368,215 short tons
- **Labor hours:** 72,327
- **Average employees:** 35
- **Coal supply region:** Appalachia Central
- **Union code:** Not published
- **Published rows under this MSHA ID:** 1

## Recent Title 30 crosswalk

Snapshot current through 2026-08-19.

- **30 CFR 77.1607 — Loading and haulage equipment; operation.** (4 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1607
- **30 CFR 77.1000 — Highwalls, pits and spoil banks; plans.** (4 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-K/section-77.1000
- **30 CFR 77.1608 — Dumping facilities.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1608
- **30 CFR 77.1104 — Accumulations of combustible materials.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1104

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 10 rows; 2011-04-12 through 2023-08-28; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2025-05-07 through 2025-05-07; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 292 rows; 2010-09-20 through 2025-08-25; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 30 rows; 2015-04-15 through 2026-02-19; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 233 rows; 2011-03-16 through 2025-05-06; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 14 rows; 2023-02-23 through 2025-03-28; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 30 rows; 2014-01-28 through 2025-09-16; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 1,679 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 373 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 2008-06-26 through 2018-05-23; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 76 rows; 2010-03-22 through 2026-05-13; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 20 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 66 rows; 2011-03-09 through 2024-10-29; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 23 rows; 2014-03-18 through 2024-10-24; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 312 rows; 2010-09-20 through 2025-08-25; 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/mine-no-6-4609286`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/mine-no-6-4609286`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4609286/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4609286/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4609286/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`