# Horse Creek No 1

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4609348
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Mcdowell, WV
- **Operator:** Brooks Run South Mining, LLC
- **Controller:** Alpha Metallurgical Resources Inc
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,902
- **Source coverage:** 15 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Alpha Metallurgical Resources Inc (0127321) → Brooks Run South Mining, LLC (0081364) → Horse Creek No 1 (4609348)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. → Brooks Run Mining Company, LLC:** 2009-08-06 through 2014-01-19; derived from co-tenure at mine 4609348; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. → Brooks Run South Mining, LLC:** 2014-01-20 through 2016-07-25; derived from co-tenure at mine 4609348; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, Inc → Brooks Run Mining Company, LLC:** 2016-07-26 through 2014-01-19; derived from co-tenure at mine 4609348; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, Inc → Brooks Run South Mining, LLC:** 2016-07-26 through 2018-11-08; derived from co-tenure at mine 4609348; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Pristine Clean Energy LLC → Brooks Run Mining Company, LLC:** 2017-10-05 through 2014-01-19; derived from co-tenure at mine 4609348; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Metallurgical Resources Inc → Brooks Run South Mining, LLC:** 2018-11-09 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4609348; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 6
- Typed edges: 14
- Interval anomalies: 2
- 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 25 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 1,151 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 357 violation rows across the full record; 70 carry an S&S flag and $125,766 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 782 samples:** Occupational health samples 685 coal dust; 28 coal quartz; 69 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 2 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 — 32 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 16 contested-violation rows, 16 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 62 inspection events and 4K 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 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 75.380 — Escapeways; bituminous and lignite mines.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.380
- **30 CFR 75.220 — Roof control plan.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-C/section-75.220
- **30 CFR 75.403 — Maintenance of incombustible content of rock dust.** (4 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-E/section-75.403
- **30 CFR 75.1103-4 — Automatic fire sensor and warning device systems; installation; minimum requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-L/section-75.1103-4
- **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:** 25 rows; 2010-08-16 through 2016-10-28; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2024-02-22 through 2024-02-22; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 354 rows; 2010-08-16 through 2016-05-10; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 16 rows; 2012-06-27 through 2016-11-16; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 685 rows; 2010-06-21 through 2016-02-18; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Contested Violations:** 16 rows; 2011-05-06 through 2015-12-10; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 235 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 33 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 6 rows; 2009-08-06 through 2014-01-20; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 62 rows; 2009-09-23 through 2018-08-03; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 14 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 69 rows; 2010-08-18 through 2015-01-21; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 28 rows; 2010-11-02 through 2016-02-18; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 357 rows; 2010-08-16 through 2016-05-10; 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/horse-creek-no-1-4609348`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/horse-creek-no-1-4609348`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4609348/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4609348/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4609348/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`