# Mine No 11

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4609329
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Fayette, WV
- **Operator:** Frasure Creek Mining LLC
- **Controller:** Essar Minerals Canada Limited
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,267
- **Source coverage:** 16 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Essar Minerals Canada Limited (0102805) → Frasure Creek Mining LLC (P24564) → Mine No 11 (4609329)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Kenneth W  Woodring → Frasure Creek Mining LLC:** 2009-01-20 through 2010-04-06; derived from co-tenure at mine 4609329; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Jeffery A  Hoops → Frasure Creek Mining LLC:** 2009-01-20 through 2008-10-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 4609329; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Essar Minerals Canada Limited → Frasure Creek Mining LLC:** 2010-04-07 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4609329; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 3
- Typed edges: 7
- 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 19 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 1,331 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 111 violation rows across the full record; 41 carry an S&S flag and $78,405 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 169 samples:** Occupational health samples 150 coal dust; 5 coal quartz; 14 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 3 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 418 employee hours and 1 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 48 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 24 contested-violation rows, 24 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 0 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 2 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 31 inspection events and 941 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 75.1711-3 — Openings of active mines.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1711-3
- **30 CFR 75.1711 — Sealing of mines.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1711
- **30 CFR 77.502-2 — Electric equipment; frequency of examination and testing.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.502-2
- **30 CFR 75.512 — Electric equipment; examination, testing and maintenance.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.512
- **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 75.323 — Actions for excessive methane.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.323
- **30 CFR 77.900-2 — Testing, examination, and maintenance of circuit breakers; record.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-J/section-77.900-2
- **30 CFR 75.1101-17 — Sealing of dry powder chemical systems.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-L/section-75.1101-17
- **30 CFR 75.1103-8 — Automatic fire sensor and warning device systems; examination and test requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-L/section-75.1103-8

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 19 rows; 2010-08-24 through 2012-05-08; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2014-12-17 through 2014-12-17; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 108 rows; 2010-08-18 through 2012-09-19; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 24 rows; 2012-09-04 through 2013-07-26; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 150 rows; 2010-08-18 through 2012-01-18; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Contested Violations:** 24 rows; 2010-10-14 through 2012-03-08; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 588 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 119 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 2009-01-20 through 2009-01-20; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 31 rows; 2009-04-14 through 2016-05-16; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 62 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:** 14 rows; 2011-01-06 through 2011-12-01; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 5 rows; 2011-02-07 through 2011-09-26; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 111 rows; 2010-08-18 through 2016-05-16; 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-11-4609329`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/mine-no-11-4609329`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4609329/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4609329/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4609329/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`