# Somerville Central Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1202258
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Gibson, IN
- **Operator:** Peabody Midwest Mining
- **Controller:** Peabody Energy Corporation
- **Public source rows linked:** 6,581
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Peabody Energy Corporation (C15833) → Peabody Midwest Mining (P23854) → Somerville Central Mine (1202258)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Peabody Energy Corporation → Peabody Midwest Mining:** 1999-10-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1202258; 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 — 1 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 83 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 1,637 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 4 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 489 violation rows across the full record; 138 carry an S&S flag and $476,083 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 670 samples:** Occupational health samples 511 coal dust; 37 coal quartz; 122 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 24 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 — 100 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 35 contested-violation rows, 36 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 29 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 — 22 since 2021:** Inspections 141 inspection events and 7K 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 77.1606 — 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 77.409 — Shovels, draglines, and tractors.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.409
- **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 77.404 — Machinery and equipment; operation and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.404
- **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 77.410 — 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

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 83 rows; 2000-02-18 through 2023-02-13; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2026-10-06 through 2026-10-06; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 480 rows; 2000-03-01 through 2023-01-18; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 36 rows; 2008-04-10 through 2019-04-26; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 511 rows; 2000-05-24 through 2024-01-02; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 29 rows; 2001-03-27 through 2017-06-20; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 35 rows; 2007-07-02 through 2017-12-05; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 3,475 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 755 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 1999-10-01 through 1999-10-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 141 rows; 2000-03-01 through 2026-04-22; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 314 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 71 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 122 rows; 2000-05-24 through 2024-02-05; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 37 rows; 2001-01-09 through 2024-01-02; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 489 rows; 2000-03-01 through 2023-01-18; 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/somerville-central-mine-1202258`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/somerville-central-mine-1202258`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1202258/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1202258/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1202258/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`