# Ikerd Coal Company LLC

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1505197
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Facility / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Pulaski, KY
- **Operator:** Ikerd Terminal Co LLC
- **Controller:** Frank H  Ikerd III
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,313
- **Source coverage:** 15 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Frank H  Ikerd III (C11799) → Ikerd Terminal Co LLC (0117825) → Ikerd Coal Company LLC (1505197)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Kaneb Services Inc → Ikerd-Bandy Company Inc:** 1950-01-01 through 1985-02-14; derived from co-tenure at mine 1505197; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **James J  Kocian et al → Ikerd-Bandy Company Inc:** 1985-02-15 through 1988-02-18; derived from co-tenure at mine 1505197; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Frank H  Ikerd III → Cumberland Creek Coal Company:** 1988-02-19 through 1991-04-22; derived from co-tenure at mine 1505197; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Richard A  Ikerd → R A I Inc:** 1991-04-23 through 1998-05-17; derived from co-tenure at mine 1505197; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Jeffrey R  Serra et al → Re-New Energy L L C:** 1998-05-18 through 1998-10-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 1505197; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Richard C  Holmes → Kentucky Energy Llc:** 1998-10-31 through 2005-05-04; derived from co-tenure at mine 1505197; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Frank H  Ikerd III → Ikerd Coal Company LLC:** 2005-05-05 through 2005-06-09; derived from co-tenure at mine 1505197; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Timothy L  Webb → Ikerd Coal Company LLC:** 2005-06-10 through 2005-07-10; derived from co-tenure at mine 1505197; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Frank H  Ikerd III → Ikerd Terminal Co LLC:** 2005-07-11 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1505197; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 9
- Typed edges: 26
- 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 0 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 198 violation rows across the full record; 107 carry an S&S flag and $30,127 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 159 samples:** Occupational health samples 107 coal dust; 52 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 1 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 22K employee hours and 33 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 6 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 2 contested-violation rows, 2 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 2 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 15 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 — 5 since 2021:** Inspections 74 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 77.502-2 — Electric equipment; frequency of examination and testing.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.502-2
- **30 CFR 77.1110 — Examination and maintenance of firefighting equipment.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1110
- **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 77.1104 — Accumulations of combustible materials.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1104
- **30 CFR 77.404 — Machinery and equipment; operation and maintenance.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.404
- **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

## Source coverage

- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2022-05-06 through 2022-05-06; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 194 rows; 2000-01-03 through 2014-06-25; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 2 rows; 2009-10-15 through 2011-06-15; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 107 rows; 2000-04-05 through 2012-01-05; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 2 rows; 2003-01-08 through 2003-01-08; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 2 rows; 2007-10-25 through 2010-09-07; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 514 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 109 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 9 rows; 1950-01-01 through 2005-07-11; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 74 rows; 2000-01-03 through 2022-05-05; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 24 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 24 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 52 rows; 2000-04-05 through 2012-01-05; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Violations:** 198 rows; 2000-01-03 through 2014-06-30; 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/ikerd-coal-company-llc-1505197`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/ikerd-coal-company-llc-1505197`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1505197/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1505197/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1505197/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`