# Apollo Surface Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4609442
- **Status:** NonProducing
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Mcdowell, WV
- **Operator:** Onyx Energy, LLC
- **Controller:** Mohegan Energy Trustees LLC
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,192
- **Source coverage:** 16 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Mohegan Energy Trustees LLC (0141301) → Onyx Energy, LLC (0098205) → Apollo Surface Mine (4609442)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Richard G  Preservati II → Onyx Energy, LLC:** 2012-02-16 through 2018-05-15; derived from co-tenure at mine 4609442; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Mohegan Energy Trustees LLC → Onyx Energy, LLC:** 2018-05-16 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4609442; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 2
- Typed edges: 5
- 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 1 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 4 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 33 violation rows across the full record; 3 carry an S&S flag and $5,823 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 165 samples:** Occupational health samples 113 coal dust; 17 coal quartz; 35 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 — 0 tons:** Quarterly production and employment 0 employee hours and 0 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 2 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 1 contested-violation rows, 1 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 0 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 4 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 — 13 since 2021:** Inspections 35 inspection events and 678 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 71.209 — Status change reports.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-71/subpart-C/section-71.209
- **30 CFR 77.1606 — Loading and haulage equipment; inspection and maintenance.** (5 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1606
- **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
- **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
- **30 CFR 77.1103 — Flammable liquids; storage.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1103
- **30 CFR 71.206 — Quarterly sampling; designated work positions.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-71/subpart-C/section-71.206
- **30 CFR 77.1007 — Drilling; general.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-K/section-77.1007

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 1 rows; 2017-09-26 through 2017-09-26; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2020-04-07 through 2020-04-07; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 33 rows; 2016-09-08 through 2022-04-06; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 1 rows; 2017-09-11 through 2017-09-11; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 113 rows; 2016-09-21 through 2022-04-06; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Contested Violations:** 1 rows; 2016-09-21 through 2016-09-21; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 674 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 145 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 2012-02-16 through 2012-02-16; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 35 rows; 2014-07-08 through 2026-10-07; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 90 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 10 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 35 rows; 2016-09-21 through 2022-04-06; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 17 rows; 2016-09-21 through 2019-12-18; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 33 rows; 2016-09-08 through 2022-04-06; 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/apollo-surface-mine-4609442`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/apollo-surface-mine-4609442`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4609442/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4609442/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4609442/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`