# Viking Mine - Corning Pit

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1201946
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Daviess, IN
- **Operator:** Peabody Midwest Mining, LLC
- **Controller:** Peabody Energy Corporation
- **Public source rows linked:** 3,052
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Peabody Energy Corporation (C15833) → Peabody Midwest Mining, LLC (P23854) → Viking Mine - Corning Pit (1201946)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Shand Alexander (Holdings) Ltd → B & Ls Contracting Inc:** 1984-06-01 through 1991-09-08; derived from co-tenure at mine 1201946; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Black Beauty Resources → Black Beauty Mining Inc:** 1991-09-09 through 1999-04-11; derived from co-tenure at mine 1201946; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Peabody Energy Corporation → Peabody Midwest Mining, LLC:** 1999-04-12 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1201946; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 3
- 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 — 0 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 38 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 827 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 309 violation rows across the full record; 97 carry an S&S flag and $132,970 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 244 samples:** Occupational health samples 153 coal dust; 3 coal quartz; 88 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 28 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 0 employee hours and 0 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 81 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 35 contested-violation rows, 36 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 10 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 18 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 — 0 since 2021:** Inspections 87 inspection events and 3K published inspection hours across the historical record.

## EIA annual operating context

No matched record in the 2024 EIA coal-public workbook. This may be inapplicable for a non-coal operation.

## 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 77.1104 — 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 77.1605 — 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 77.1606 — Loading and haulage equipment; inspection and maintenance.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1606
- **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 77.410 — Mobile equipment; automatic warning devices.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.410
- **30 CFR 72.620 — Drill dust control at surface mines and surface areas of underground mines.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-72/subpart-E/section-72.620
- **30 CFR 62.130 — Permissible exposure level.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-M/part-62/section-62.130

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 38 rows; 2000-10-04 through 2012-10-20; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2016-08-10 through 2016-08-10; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 306 rows; 2000-01-21 through 2015-03-23; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 36 rows; 2003-12-04 through 2014-10-20; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 153 rows; 2000-02-09 through 2015-08-25; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 10 rows; 2001-11-06 through 2019-04-09; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 35 rows; 2008-06-27 through 2013-04-02; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 1,411 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 328 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 1984-06-01 through 1999-04-12; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 87 rows; 2000-01-21 through 2016-08-15; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 198 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 45 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 88 rows; 2000-02-09 through 2014-02-12; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 3 rows; 2000-08-16 through 2008-07-10; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 309 rows; 2000-01-21 through 2015-03-23; 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/viking-mine-corning-pit-1201946`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/viking-mine-corning-pit-1201946`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1201946/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1201946/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1201946/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`