# High Carbon Processing Plant

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4609657
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Facility / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Barbour, WV
- **Operator:** High Carbon Processing, LLC
- **Controller:** Taurus LLC; JAZ NCR LLC; AMCI White Knight Funding LLC
- **Public source rows linked:** 343
- **Source coverage:** 15 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Taurus LLC; JAZ NCR LLC; AMCI White Knight Funding LLC (0196541) → High Carbon Processing, LLC (0194593) → High Carbon Processing Plant (4609657)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **POSCO-NCR Coal Ltd et al → High Carbon Processing, LLC:** 2024-02-21 through 2025-11-11; derived from co-tenure at mine 4609657; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **American Metals & Coal International Inc. et al → High Carbon Processing, LLC:** 2024-02-21 through 2025-11-11; derived from co-tenure at mine 4609657; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **JAZ Ventures LP et al → High Carbon Processing, LLC:** 2024-02-21 through 2025-11-11; derived from co-tenure at mine 4609657; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **AMCI White Knight Funding LLC → High Carbon Processing, LLC:** 2025-11-12 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4609657; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **JAZ NCR LLC → High Carbon Processing, LLC:** 2025-11-12 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4609657; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Taurus LLC → High Carbon Processing, LLC:** 2025-11-12 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4609657; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 6
- Typed edges: 9
- 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 — 6 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 6 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 24 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 24 violation rows across the full record; 5 carry an S&S flag and $5,203 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 69 samples:** Occupational health samples 53 coal dust; 1 coal quartz; 15 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 36K employee hours and 63 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 1 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 0 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 1 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 3 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 — 16 since 2021:** Inspections 16 inspection events and 415 published inspection hours across the historical record.

## EIA annual operating context

- **Reporting year:** 2024
- **Production:** 0 short tons
- **Labor hours:** 84,232
- **Average employees:** 51
- **Coal supply region:** Appalachia Northern
- **Union code:** Not published
- **Published rows under this MSHA ID:** 1

## Recent Title 30 crosswalk

Snapshot current through 2026-08-19.

- **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 77.410 — Mobile equipment; automatic warning devices.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.410
- **30 CFR 77.502 — Electric equipment; examination, testing, and maintenance.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.502
- **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
- **30 CFR 77.809 — Identification of circuit breakers and disconnecting switches.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-I/section-77.809
- **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

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 6 rows; 2024-10-10 through 2026-08-12; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2024-04-24 through 2024-04-24; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 21 rows; 2024-04-25 through 2026-06-10; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 53 rows; 2024-05-22 through 2026-08-17; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 1 rows; 2024-12-10 through 2024-12-10; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 129 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 32 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 6 rows; 2024-02-21 through 2024-02-21; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 16 rows; 2024-04-25 through 2026-07-28; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 30 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 7 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 15 rows; 2025-02-03 through 2026-01-05; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 1 rows; 2025-02-03 through 2025-02-03; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 24 rows; 2024-04-25 through 2026-06-10; 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/high-carbon-processing-plant-4609657`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/high-carbon-processing-plant-4609657`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4609657/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4609657/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4609657/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`