# Bartley Surface Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4609656
- **Status:** NonProducing
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Mcdowell, WV
- **Operator:** GME Mining & Reclamation, Inc.
- **Controller:** Gladys M Edwards
- **Public source rows linked:** 443
- **Source coverage:** 14 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Gladys M Edwards (0120781) → GME Mining & Reclamation, Inc. (0141353) → Bartley Surface Mine (4609656)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Gladys M Edwards → GME Mining & Reclamation, Inc.:** 2024-02-06 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4609656; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 1
- Typed edges: 3
- 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 0 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 76 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 76 violation rows across the full record; 21 carry an S&S flag and $26,124 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 37 samples:** Occupational health samples 21 coal dust; 3 coal quartz; 13 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 — 9K tons:** Quarterly production and employment 11K employee hours and 28 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 2 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 0 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 2 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 1 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 — 8 since 2021:** Inspections 8 inspection events and 500 published inspection hours across the historical record.

## EIA annual operating context

- **Reporting year:** 2024
- **Production:** 2,028 short tons
- **Labor hours:** 3,645
- **Average employees:** 7
- **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 71.209 — 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 45.4 — Independent contractor register.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-G/part-45/section-45.4
- **30 CFR 77.1605 — Loading and haulage equipment; installations.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1605
- **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 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 77.1110 — 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

## Source coverage

- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2025-10-06 through 2025-10-06; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 70 rows; 2025-02-10 through 2026-07-14; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 21 rows; 2025-03-20 through 2026-08-27; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 2 rows; 2026-02-18 through 2026-02-18; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 191 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 46 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 2024-02-06 through 2024-02-06; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 8 rows; 2025-02-10 through 2026-04-29; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 7 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 3 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 13 rows; 2025-03-20 through 2026-07-14; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 3 rows; 2025-03-20 through 2026-07-14; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 76 rows; 2025-02-10 through 2026-07-14; 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/bartley-surface-mine-4609656`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/bartley-surface-mine-4609656`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4609656/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4609656/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4609656/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`