# Long Fork

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1505375
- **Status:** NonProducing
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Pike, KY
- **Operator:** Lexington Coal Company, LLC
- **Controller:** Lexington Coal Holdings, Inc
- **Public source rows linked:** 6,114
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Lexington Coal Holdings, Inc (0137221) → Lexington Coal Company, LLC (0154153) → Long Fork (1505375)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Occidental Petroleum Corp → Island Creek Coal Company:** 1950-01-01 through 1992-03-25; derived from co-tenure at mine 1505375; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Massey Energy Company → Long Fork Coal Company, LLC:** 1992-03-26 through 2011-05-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 1505375; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. → Long Fork Coal Company, LLC:** 2011-06-01 through 2016-07-25; derived from co-tenure at mine 1505375; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, Inc → Long Fork Coal Company, LLC:** 2016-07-26 through 2017-10-22; derived from co-tenure at mine 1505375; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Lexington Coal Holdings, Inc → Lexington Coal Company, LLC:** 2017-10-23 through 2024-12-16; derived from co-tenure at mine 1505375; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Shawn  Dials → Omega Land Restoration, Inc:** 2024-12-17 through 2025-09-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 1505375; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Lexington Coal Holdings, Inc → Lexington Coal Company, LLC:** 2025-10-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1505375; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 7
- 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 — 1 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 35 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 1,964 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 26 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 761 violation rows across the full record; 312 carry an S&S flag and $348,464 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 433 samples:** Occupational health samples 297 coal dust; 27 coal quartz; 109 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 43 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 — 205 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 89 contested-violation rows, 103 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 13 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 14 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 — 20 since 2021:** Inspections 273 inspection events and 8K 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 77.216-3 — Water, sediment, or slurry impoundments and impounding structures; inspection requirements; correction of hazards; program requirements.** (7 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.216-3
- **30 CFR 77.1713 — Daily inspection of surface coal mine; certified person; reports of inspection.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-R/section-77.1713
- **30 CFR 77.216-4 — Water, sediment or slurry impoundments and impounding structures; reporting requirements; certification.** (3 retained recent rows) — 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:** 35 rows; 2000-10-31 through 2021-10-20; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2023-07-18 through 2023-07-18; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 740 rows; 2000-01-04 through 2026-08-11; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 103 rows; 2002-03-12 through 2013-05-08; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 297 rows; 2000-08-15 through 2023-09-05; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 13 rows; 2002-03-19 through 2012-02-14; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 89 rows; 2004-05-26 through 2012-09-20; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 2,886 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 534 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 7 rows; 1950-01-01 through 2025-10-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 273 rows; 2000-01-04 through 2026-09-24; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 213 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 25 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 109 rows; 2000-02-01 through 2022-12-13; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 27 rows; 2001-02-20 through 2022-03-15; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 761 rows; 2000-01-04 through 2026-09-24; 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/long-fork-1505375`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/long-fork-1505375`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1505375/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1505375/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1505375/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`