# Estill Co.

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1500365
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Facility / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Estill, KY
- **Operator:** Bowie Refined Coal, LLC
- **Controller:** Steve  Rickmeier
- **Public source rows linked:** 4,774
- **Source coverage:** 15 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Steve  Rickmeier (0107723) → Bowie Refined Coal, LLC (0129275) → Estill Co. (1500365)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Harry  LaViers Jr → South-East Coal Company Inc:** 1950-01-01 through 1993-04-06; derived from co-tenure at mine 1500365; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Donald G  LaViers → Dlx Inc:** 1993-04-07 through 1994-03-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 1500365; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Florida Progress Corp et al → Kentucky Processing Company:** 1994-03-31 through 1995-10-15; derived from co-tenure at mine 1500365; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Charles E  Yates → Kentucky Processing Company:** 1995-10-16 through 2010-05-13; derived from co-tenure at mine 1500365; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Jocelyn  Westermann → Fuel Recovery Partners, LLC:** 2010-05-14 through 2013-05-29; derived from co-tenure at mine 1500365; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Steve  Rickmeier et al → Bowie Refined Coal, LLC:** 2013-05-30 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1500365; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 6
- Typed edges: 18
- 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 7 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 672 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 403 violation rows across the full record; 119 carry an S&S flag and $99,083 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 78 samples:** Occupational health samples 46 coal dust; 32 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 — 0 tons:** Quarterly production and employment 14K employee hours and 23 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 42 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 21 contested-violation rows, 21 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 0 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 22 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 — 1 since 2021:** Inspections 151 inspection events and 4K 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 77.216 — Water, sediment, or slurry impoundments and impounding structures; general.** (4 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.216
- **30 CFR 77.205 — Travelways at surface installations.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.205
- **30 CFR 77.216-3 — Water, sediment, or slurry impoundments and impounding structures; inspection requirements; correction of hazards; program requirements.** (6 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.216-3
- **30 CFR 77.216-4 — Water, sediment or slurry impoundments and impounding structures; reporting requirements; certification.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.216-4

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 7 rows; 2013-07-18 through 2017-04-01; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2020-08-28 through 2020-08-28; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 379 rows; 2000-08-21 through 2020-05-29; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 21 rows; 2014-05-28 through 2015-12-29; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 46 rows; 2014-03-12 through 2017-04-11; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Contested Violations:** 21 rows; 2013-05-29 through 2014-12-17; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 2,981 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 583 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 6 rows; 1950-01-01 through 2013-05-30; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 151 rows; 2000-05-22 through 2023-04-17; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 128 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **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:** 32 rows; 2014-03-12 through 2017-01-05; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Violations:** 403 rows; 2000-08-21 through 2020-06-10; 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/estill-co-1500365`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/estill-co-1500365`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1500365/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1500365/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1500365/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`