# Surface Mine 1

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4609632
- **Status:** NonProducing
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Mingo, WV
- **Operator:** Mega Highwall Mining, LLC
- **Controller:** Daniel W  Bunn
- **Public source rows linked:** 617
- **Source coverage:** 16 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Daniel W  Bunn (0101029) → Mega Highwall Mining, LLC (0149874) → Surface Mine 1 (4609632)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Ben's Creek Limited → Ben's Creek Operations WV, LLC:** 2022-09-01 through 2020-11-10; derived from co-tenure at mine 4609632; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **MBU Capital Group LTD et al → Ben's Creek Operations WV, LLC:** 2022-09-01 through 2023-11-27; derived from co-tenure at mine 4609632; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Bens Creek Group PLC → Ben's Creek Operations WV, LLC:** 2023-11-28 through 2024-10-09; derived from co-tenure at mine 4609632; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Daniel W  Bunn → Mega Highwall Mining, LLC:** 2024-10-10 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4609632; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 4
- Typed edges: 10
- 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 — 1 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 2 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 6 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 123 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 123 violation rows across the full record; 36 carry an S&S flag and $51,386 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 81 samples:** Occupational health samples 59 coal dust; 7 coal quartz; 15 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 — 0 tons:** Quarterly production and employment 4K employee hours and 9 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 22 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 10 contested-violation rows, 12 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 — 20 since 2021:** Inspections 20 inspection events and 1K published inspection hours across the historical record.

## EIA annual operating context

- **Reporting year:** 2024
- **Production:** 5,280 short tons
- **Labor hours:** 40,474
- **Average employees:** 26
- **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 77.208 — Storage of materials.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.208
- **30 CFR 77.1110 — Examination and maintenance of firefighting equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1110
- **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.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1605
- **30 CFR 77.205 — Travelways at surface installations.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.205
- **30 CFR 77.1004 — Ground control; inspection and maintenance; general.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-K/section-77.1004

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 2 rows; 2003-08-04 through 2025-06-05; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2026-07-28 through 2026-07-28; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 117 rows; 2022-12-19 through 2026-05-21; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 12 rows; 2023-07-06 through 2025-04-25; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 59 rows; 2023-01-10 through 2026-04-15; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Contested Violations:** 10 rows; 2022-12-19 through 2023-08-02; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 177 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 50 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 4 rows; 2022-09-01 through 2024-10-10; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 20 rows; 2022-12-19 through 2026-05-21; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 14 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 5 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 15 rows; 2023-01-10 through 2025-07-15; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 7 rows; 2023-07-31 through 2026-03-24; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 123 rows; 2022-12-19 through 2026-05-21; 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/surface-mine-1-4609632`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/surface-mine-1-4609632`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4609632/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4609632/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4609632/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`