# Clearco Prep & Loadout Facility

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4609462
- **Status:** Temporarily Idled
- **Type / commodity:** Facility / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Greenbrier, WV
- **Operator:** Clearco Processing Corporation
- **Controller:** Bernard  Brown
- **Public source rows linked:** 987
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Bernard  Brown (0199721) → Clearco Processing Corporation (0208733) → Clearco Prep & Loadout Facility (4609462)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Xinergy Ltd → South Fork Coal Co., LLC:** 2012-08-27 through 2016-02-09; derived from co-tenure at mine 4609462; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **White Forest Resources, Inc → South Fork Coal Co., LLC:** 2016-02-10 through 2026-04-27; derived from co-tenure at mine 4609462; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Bernard  Brown → Clearco Processing Corporation:** 2026-04-28 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4609462; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 3
- Typed edges: 8
- 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 — 2 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 8 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 191 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 45 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 65 violation rows across the full record; 10 carry an S&S flag and $14,571 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 275 samples:** Occupational health samples 199 coal dust; 5 coal quartz; 71 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 — 0 tons:** Quarterly production and employment 5K employee hours and 9 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 14 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 6 contested-violation rows, 6 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 2 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 — 23 since 2021:** Inspections 58 inspection events and 2K published inspection hours across the historical record.

## EIA annual operating context

- **Reporting year:** 2024
- **Production:** 0 short tons
- **Labor hours:** 11,926
- **Average employees:** 8
- **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 77.410 — Mobile equipment; automatic warning devices.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.410
- **30 CFR 77.205 — Travelways at surface installations.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.205
- **30 CFR 77.502 — Electric equipment; examination, testing, and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.502
- **30 CFR 77.1102 — Warning signs; smoking and open flame.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1102
- **30 CFR 77.701 — Grounding metallic frames, casings, and other enclosures of electric equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-H/section-77.701
- **30 CFR 71.402 — Minimum requirements for bathing facilities, change rooms, and sanitary flush toilet facilities.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-71/subpart-E/section-71.402
- **30 CFR 47.44 — Temporary, portable containers.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-47/subpart-E/section-47.44
- **30 CFR 77.400 — Mechanical equipment guards.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.400

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 8 rows; 2013-05-22 through 2023-01-30; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2025-10-09 through 2025-10-09; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 65 rows; 2013-02-27 through 2023-06-13; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 6 rows; 2019-08-23 through 2019-08-23; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 199 rows; 2013-06-11 through 2025-07-23; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 2 rows; 2023-04-19 through 2023-04-19; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 6 rows; 2019-02-19 through 2019-02-19; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 314 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 67 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 2012-08-27 through 2026-04-28; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 58 rows; 2013-02-19 through 2026-10-05; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 97 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 19 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 71 rows; 2013-06-06 through 2024-12-04; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 5 rows; 2016-03-01 through 2023-02-14; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 65 rows; 2013-02-27 through 2023-06-13; 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/clearco-prep-loadout-facility-4609462`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/clearco-prep-loadout-facility-4609462`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4609462/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4609462/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4609462/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`