# Love Branch Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1509830
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Pike, KY
- **Operator:** Road Fork Development Company Inc
- **Controller:** Alpha Metallurgical Resources Inc
- **Public source rows linked:** 2,956
- **Source coverage:** 16 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Alpha Metallurgical Resources Inc (0127321) → Road Fork Development Company Inc (P22248) → Love Branch Mine (1509830)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Pittston Company → Eastern Coal Corp:** 1976-07-15 through 2003-09-07; derived from co-tenure at mine 1509830; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Massey Energy Company → Road Fork Development Company Inc:** 2003-09-08 through 2011-05-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 1509830; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. → Road Fork Development Company Inc:** 2011-06-01 through 2016-07-25; derived from co-tenure at mine 1509830; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, Inc → Road Fork Development Company Inc:** 2016-07-26 through 2018-11-08; derived from co-tenure at mine 1509830; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Metallurgical Resources Inc → Road Fork Development Company Inc:** 2018-11-09 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1509830; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 5
- Typed edges: 12
- 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 41 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 441 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 557 violation rows across the full record; 298 carry an S&S flag and $201,924 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 996 samples:** Occupational health samples 866 coal dust; 61 coal quartz; 69 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 17 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 — No published quarter:** Quarterly production and employment The source remains registered, but no mine-keyed quarterly production row was published.
5. **LEGAL — 188 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 86 contested-violation rows, 86 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 16 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 3 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 96 inspection events and 5K 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 48.26 — Experienced miner training.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-B/section-48.26
- **30 CFR 75.1909 — Nonpermissible diesel-powered equipment; design and performance requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-T/section-75.1909
- **30 CFR 75.1502 — Mine emergency evacuation and firefighting program of instruction.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-P/section-75.1502
- **30 CFR 75.512 — Electric equipment; examination, testing and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.512
- **30 CFR 75.1403 — Other safeguards.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-O/section-75.1403
- **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 75.1100-3 — Condition and examination of firefighting equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-L/section-75.1100-3
- **30 CFR 75.904 — Identification of circuit breakers.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-J/section-75.904
- **30 CFR 75.503 — Permissible electric face equipment; maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.503
- **30 CFR 50.10 — Immediate notification.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-B/section-50.10
- **30 CFR 75.508 — Map of electrical system.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.508

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 41 rows; 2004-02-05 through 2009-02-18; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2009-12-23 through 2009-12-23; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 538 rows; 2003-11-06 through 2009-05-26; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 86 rows; 2006-12-13 through 2012-10-05; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 866 rows; 2004-01-21 through 2008-09-02; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 16 rows; 2004-06-04 through 2008-02-04; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 86 rows; 2004-11-09 through 2009-05-26; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 454 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 65 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 5 rows; 1976-07-15 through 2003-09-08; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 96 rows; 2003-10-15 through 2009-12-23; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **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:** 69 rows; 2004-01-26 through 2008-07-23; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 61 rows; 2004-01-21 through 2008-06-25; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 557 rows; 2003-11-06 through 2009-05-26; 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/love-branch-mine-1509830`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/love-branch-mine-1509830`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1509830/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1509830/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1509830/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`