# TOM BAILEY BRANCH SURFACE MINE

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4609609
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Wyoming, WV
- **Operator:** ED COAL, INC.
- **Controller:** Everett Gordon Justice
- **Public source rows linked:** 233
- **Source coverage:** 14 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Everett Gordon Justice (C14555) → ED COAL, INC. (0068463) → TOM BAILEY BRANCH SURFACE MINE (4609609)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Mike  Jamison et al → Mountain Eagle Mining LLC:** 2021-07-05 through 2022-02-14; derived from co-tenure at mine 4609609; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Petri E Koivula et al → Mountain Eagle Mining LLC:** 2021-07-05 through 2022-02-14; derived from co-tenure at mine 4609609; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **John  McNab et al → Mountain Eagle Mining LLC:** 2021-07-05 through 2022-02-14; derived from co-tenure at mine 4609609; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Everett Gordon Justice → Ed Coal, Inc.:** 2022-02-15 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4609609; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 4
- 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 — 4 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 4 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 77 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 47 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 47 violation rows across the full record; 3 carry an S&S flag and $11,154 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 100 samples:** Occupational health samples 76 coal dust; 8 coal quartz; 16 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 0 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 — 112K tons:** Quarterly production and employment 15K employee hours and 27 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 6 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 3 contested-violation rows, 3 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 0 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 0 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 — 12 since 2021:** Inspections 12 inspection events and 592 published inspection hours across the historical record.

## EIA annual operating context

- **Reporting year:** 2024
- **Production:** 503,529 short tons
- **Labor hours:** 73,587
- **Average employees:** 32
- **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 71.206 — Quarterly sampling; designated work positions.** (4 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-71/subpart-C/section-71.206
- **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 77.1605 — 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 77.1606 — Loading and haulage equipment; inspection and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1606
- **30 CFR 77.1110 — Examination and maintenance of firefighting equipment.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1110
- **30 CFR 77.1104 — Accumulations of combustible materials.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1104

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 4 rows; 2024-04-04 through 2026-03-23; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2025-03-13 through 2025-03-13; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 42 rows; 2023-10-23 through 2026-03-23; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 3 rows; 2024-10-02 through 2024-10-02; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 76 rows; 2023-10-27 through 2026-03-18; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Contested Violations:** 3 rows; 2023-10-23 through 2023-10-23; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 4 rows; 2021-07-05 through 2022-02-15; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 12 rows; 2023-10-23 through 2026-08-10; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 12 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 4 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 16 rows; 2024-03-14 through 2025-01-29; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 8 rows; 2024-03-14 through 2026-03-18; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 47 rows; 2023-10-23 through 2026-09-01; 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/tom-bailey-branch-surface-mine-4609609`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/tom-bailey-branch-surface-mine-4609609`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4609609/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4609609/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4609609/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`