# East Volunteer

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1502013
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Facility / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Hopkins, KY
- **Operator:** Hopkins County Coal LLC
- **Controller:** Alliance Resource Partners LP
- **Public source rows linked:** 2,931
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Alliance Resource Partners LP (C15455) → Hopkins County Coal LLC (P23879) → East Volunteer (1502013)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Andalex Resources B V → Andalex Resources Inc:** 1950-01-01 through 1998-01-23; derived from co-tenure at mine 1502013; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alliance Resource Partners LP → Hopkins County Coal LLC:** 1998-01-24 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1502013; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Robert E  Murray → Andalex Resources Inc:** 2006-08-09 through 1998-01-23; derived from co-tenure at mine 1502013; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 3
- Typed edges: 8
- 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: 2026-10-13T11:19:05.459773+00:00.

## Assessment signals

1. **SAFETY — 0 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 20 historical accident/injury rows; 1 coded fatalities and 296 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 224 violation rows across the full record; 57 carry an S&S flag and $42,718 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 313 samples:** Occupational health samples 197 coal dust; 1 coal quartz; 115 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 22 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 — 73 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 27 contested-violation rows, 29 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 17 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 13 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 — 0 since 2021:** Inspections 87 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 48.29 — Records of training.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-B/section-48.29
- **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 77.1605 — 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 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 47.41 — Requirement for container labels.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-47/subpart-E/section-47.41
- **30 CFR 77.400 — Mechanical equipment guards.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.400
- **30 CFR 77.200 — Surface installations; general.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.200
- **30 CFR 77.216-1 — Water, sediment or slurry impoundments and impounding structures; identification.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.216-1
- **30 CFR 77.900-2 — Testing, examination, and maintenance of circuit breakers; record.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-J/section-77.900-2
- **30 CFR 77.512 — Inspection and cover plates.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.512

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 20 rows; 2000-03-27 through 2012-06-28; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2020-11-18 through 2020-11-18; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 223 rows; 2000-05-22 through 2017-02-21; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 29 rows; 2000-08-21 through 2014-01-15; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 197 rows; 2000-01-24 through 2016-03-21; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 17 rows; 2001-05-09 through 2014-01-15; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 27 rows; 2006-07-11 through 2012-09-19; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 1,438 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 280 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 1950-01-01 through 1998-01-24; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 87 rows; 2000-01-05 through 2020-10-21; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 230 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 38 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 115 rows; 2000-03-01 through 2016-01-19; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 1 rows; 2000-03-10 through 2000-03-10; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 224 rows; 2000-05-22 through 2017-02-21; 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/east-volunteer-1502013`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/east-volunteer-1502013`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1502013/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1502013/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1502013/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`