# Air Quality #1 Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1202010
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Knox, IN
- **Operator:** Peabody Midwest Mining, LLC
- **Controller:** Peabody Energy Corporation
- **Public source rows linked:** 29,325
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Peabody Energy Corporation (C15833) → Peabody Midwest Mining, LLC (P23854) → Air Quality #1 Mine (1202010)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Shand Alexander (Holdings) Ltd → Underground Coal Inc:** 1987-08-01 through 1992-02-27; derived from co-tenure at mine 1202010; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Black Beauty Resources → Black Beauty Underground Inc:** 1992-02-28 through 1999-04-11; derived from co-tenure at mine 1202010; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Peabody Energy Corporation → Peabody Midwest Mining, LLC:** 1999-04-12 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1202010; 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: 2026-10-17T05:35:58.500035+00:00.

## Assessment signals

1. **SAFETY — 0 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 597 historical accident/injury rows; 1 coded fatalities and 7,013 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 6,960 violation rows across the full record; 1,589 carry an S&S flag and $8,328,904 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 6K samples:** Occupational health samples 5,288 coal dust; 583 coal quartz; 370 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 94 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 — 421K tons:** Quarterly production and employment 139K employee hours and 228 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 3,689 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 1,297 contested-violation rows, 1,371 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 1,021 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 26 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 — 23 since 2021:** Inspections 823 inspection events and 44K 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 71.100 — Respirable dust standard.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-71/subpart-B/section-71.100
- **30 CFR 48.31 — Hazard training.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-B/section-48.31
- **30 CFR 77.1100 — Fire protection; training and organization.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1100
- **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 77.410 — 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 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 50.20 — Preparation and submission of MSHA Report Form 7000-1—Mine Accident, Injury, and Illness Report.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-C/section-50.20
- **30 CFR 77.216-3 — Water, sediment, or slurry impoundments and impounding structures; inspection requirements; correction of hazards; program requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.216-3
- **30 CFR 77.1109 — Quantity and location of firefighting equipment.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1109
- **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

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 597 rows; 2000-01-28 through 2014-03-06; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2026-09-16 through 2026-09-16; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 6,867 rows; 2000-01-19 through 2019-08-07; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 1,371 rows; 2000-12-15 through 2016-10-24; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 5,288 rows; 2000-01-04 through 2026-09-22; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 1,021 rows; 2000-03-23 through 2019-05-21; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 1,297 rows; 2001-05-11 through 2015-06-08; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 3,324 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 719 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 1987-08-01 through 1999-04-12; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 823 rows; 2000-01-04 through 2026-05-22; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 48 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 52 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 370 rows; 2000-01-04 through 2026-09-14; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 583 rows; 2000-01-04 through 2023-10-31; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 6,960 rows; 2000-01-19 through 2019-08-07; 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/air-quality-1-mine-1202010`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/air-quality-1-mine-1202010`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1202010/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1202010/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1202010/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`