# Shamrock #18 Series

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1502502
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Leslie, KY
- **Operator:** Shamrock Coal Company Incorporated
- **Controller:** James River Coal Company
- **Public source rows linked:** 8,065
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**James River Coal Company (C13562) → Shamrock Coal Company Incorporated (P24208) → Shamrock #18 Series (1502502)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **B Ray  Thompson → Shamrock Coal Company Inc:** 1950-01-01 through 1980-01-29; derived from co-tenure at mine 1502502; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Sunoco, Inc. → Shamrock Coal Company Inc:** 1980-01-30 through 1999-02-16; derived from co-tenure at mine 1502502; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **James River Coal Company → Shamrock Coal Company Incorporated:** 1999-02-17 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1502502; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 3
- Typed edges: 9
- 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: 2026-10-17T05:35:58.500035+00:00.

## Assessment signals

1. **SAFETY — 0 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 143 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 2,894 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 1,913 violation rows across the full record; 854 carry an S&S flag and $1,194,081 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 3K samples:** Occupational health samples 2,228 coal dust; 273 coal quartz; 232 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 83 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 — 203K tons:** Quarterly production and employment 45K employee hours and 75 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 733 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 346 contested-violation rows, 351 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 36 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 2 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 282 inspection events and 18K 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 75.333 — Ventilation controls.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.333
- **30 CFR 75.503 — Permissible electric face equipment; maintenance.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.503
- **30 CFR 75.400 — Accumulation of combustible materials.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-E/section-75.400
- **30 CFR 75.220 — Roof control plan.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-C/section-75.220
- **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 62.130 — Permissible exposure level.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-M/part-62/section-62.130
- **30 CFR 75.370 — Mine ventilation plan; submission and approval.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.370
- **30 CFR 75.1712-6 — Underground sanitary facilities; installation and maintenance.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1712-6
- **30 CFR 75.701 — Grounding metallic frames, casings, and other enclosures of electric equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-H/section-75.701

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 143 rows; 2000-01-19 through 2009-11-30; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2010-08-11 through 2010-08-11; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 1,887 rows; 2000-01-11 through 2010-05-26; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 351 rows; 2004-12-09 through 2012-03-06; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 2,228 rows; 2000-01-13 through 2010-06-28; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 36 rows; 2000-07-26 through 2010-11-03; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 346 rows; 2007-07-05 through 2010-05-26; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 268 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 54 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 1950-01-01 through 1999-02-17; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 282 rows; 2000-01-03 through 2010-10-27; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 25 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 22 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 232 rows; 2000-01-03 through 2010-05-14; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 273 rows; 2000-01-13 through 2010-05-14; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 1,913 rows; 2000-01-11 through 2010-05-26; 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/shamrock-18-series-1502502`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/shamrock-18-series-1502502`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1502502/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1502502/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1502502/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`