# Ace In The Hole

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1202460
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Clay, IN
- **Operator:** Sunrise Coal, LLC.
- **Controller:** Hallador Energy Company
- **Public source rows linked:** 800
- **Source coverage:** 16 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Hallador Energy Company (0141083) → Sunrise Coal, LLC. (0051576) → Ace In The Hole (1202460)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Brent K  Bilsland et al → Sunrise Coal, LLC.:** 2012-11-21 through 2018-05-10; derived from co-tenure at mine 1202460; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Ronald E  Laswell et al → Sunrise Coal, LLC.:** 2012-11-21 through 2012-04-25; derived from co-tenure at mine 1202460; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Hallador Energy Company → Sunrise Coal, LLC.:** 2018-05-11 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1202460; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 3
- Typed edges: 7
- Interval anomalies: 1
- 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 — 2 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 9 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 70 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 2 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 49 violation rows across the full record; 14 carry an S&S flag and $24,033 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 311 samples:** Occupational health samples 225 coal dust; 21 coal quartz; 65 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 7 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 — No published quarter:** Quarterly production and employment The source remains registered, but no mine-keyed quarterly production row was published.
5. **LEGAL — 3 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 1 contested-violation rows, 1 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 — 12 since 2021:** Inspections 50 inspection events and 2K 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 77.1713 — Daily inspection of surface coal mine; certified person; reports of inspection.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-R/section-77.1713
- **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 77.1606 — Loading and haulage equipment; inspection and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1606
- **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 77.410 — Mobile equipment; automatic warning devices.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.410
- **30 CFR 77.505 — Cable fittings; suitability.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.505
- **30 CFR 77.1104 — Accumulations of combustible materials.** (5 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1104

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 9 rows; 2013-09-11 through 2021-11-15; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2023-11-16 through 2023-11-16; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 48 rows; 2013-05-13 through 2023-06-09; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 1 rows; 2015-08-24 through 2015-08-24; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 225 rows; 2013-08-13 through 2023-10-05; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 1 rows; 2014-09-22 through 2014-09-22; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 1 rows; 2014-03-31 through 2014-03-31; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 261 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 53 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 2012-11-21 through 2012-11-21; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 50 rows; 2013-02-15 through 2023-11-21; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 11 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 65 rows; 2013-08-13 through 2023-10-03; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 21 rows; 2015-03-17 through 2022-08-11; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 49 rows; 2013-05-13 through 2023-06-09; 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/ace-in-the-hole-1202460`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/ace-in-the-hole-1202460`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1202460/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1202460/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1202460/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`