# Oaktown Fuels Preparation Plant

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1202462
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Facility / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Knox, IN
- **Operator:** Sunrise Coal, LLC
- **Controller:** Hallador Energy Company
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,900
- **Source coverage:** 16 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Hallador Energy Company (0141083) → Sunrise Coal, LLC (0051576) → Oaktown Fuels Preparation Plant (1202462)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Donald  Blankenberger → Black Panther Mining LLC:** 2013-04-11 through 2014-08-29; derived from co-tenure at mine 1202462; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Brent K  Bilsland et al → Sunrise Coal, LLC:** 2014-08-30 through 2018-05-10; derived from co-tenure at mine 1202462; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Ronald E  Laswell et al → Sunrise Coal, LLC:** 2014-08-30 through 2012-04-25; derived from co-tenure at mine 1202462; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Hallador Energy Company → Sunrise Coal, LLC:** 2018-05-11 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1202462; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 4
- Typed edges: 10
- 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 10 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 45 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 149 violation rows across the full record; 42 carry an S&S flag and $27,056 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 348 samples:** Occupational health samples 271 coal dust; 6 coal quartz; 71 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 17 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 — 23 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 8 contested-violation rows, 8 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 7 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 11 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 — 49 since 2021:** Inspections 119 inspection events and 3K published inspection hours across the historical record.

## EIA annual operating context

- **Reporting year:** 2024
- **Production:** 0 short tons
- **Labor hours:** 103,334
- **Average employees:** 57
- **Coal supply region:** Illinois Basin
- **Union code:** Not published
- **Published rows under this MSHA ID:** 1

## Recent Title 30 crosswalk

Snapshot current through 2026-08-19.

- **30 CFR 77.400 — Mechanical equipment guards.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.400
- **30 CFR 77.1710 — Protective clothing; requirements.** (8 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-R/section-77.1710
- **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:** 10 rows; 2013-05-29 through 2022-07-25; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2013-04-24 through 2013-04-24; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 142 rows; 2013-08-23 through 2026-09-10; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 8 rows; 2015-06-10 through 2017-06-20; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 271 rows; 2013-08-23 through 2026-09-16; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 7 rows; 2014-10-08 through 2019-04-17; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 8 rows; 2014-08-13 through 2026-05-28; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 877 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 212 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 4 rows; 2013-04-11 through 2014-08-30; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 119 rows; 2013-05-29 through 2026-10-05; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 14 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 71 rows; 2013-08-23 through 2026-02-11; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 6 rows; 2016-06-14 through 2023-02-22; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 149 rows; 2013-05-29 through 2026-10-06; 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/oaktown-fuels-preparation-plant-1202462`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/oaktown-fuels-preparation-plant-1202462`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1202462/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1202462/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1202462/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`