# BEP Hignite

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1510212
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Facility / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Bell, KY
- **Operator:** Bell Energy Partners LLC.
- **Controller:** Darrell  Wagner
- **Public source rows linked:** 3,724
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Darrell  Wagner (C12755) → Bell Energy Partners LLC. (0170293) → BEP Hignite (1510212)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **General Energy Corp → Bell County Coal Corp:** 1977-02-01 through 1982-04-29; derived from co-tenure at mine 1510212; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Williams Companies Inc → Bell County Coal Corp:** 1982-04-30 through 1988-09-27; derived from co-tenure at mine 1510212; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **James River Coal Company → Bell County Coal Corp:** 1988-09-28 through 2002-07-28; derived from co-tenure at mine 1510212; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **James River Coal Company → Hignite Processing Company:** 2002-07-29 through 2005-03-08; derived from co-tenure at mine 1510212; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **James River Coal Company → Bell County Coal Corporation:** 2005-03-09 through 2014-12-29; derived from co-tenure at mine 1510212; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Jeffery A  Hoops → Revelation Energy, LLC:** 2014-12-30 through 2020-05-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 1510212; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Darrell  Wagner → Bell Energy Partners LLC.:** 2020-06-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1510212; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 7
- Typed edges: 20
- 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 — 0 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 22 historical accident/injury rows; 2 coded fatalities and 641 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 19 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 893 violation rows across the full record; 441 carry an S&S flag and $144,973 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 381 samples:** Occupational health samples 244 coal dust; 19 coal quartz; 118 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 13 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 — 373 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 165 contested-violation rows, 172 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 36 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 23 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 — 14 since 2021:** Inspections 196 inspection events and 6K 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 — Water, sediment, or slurry impoundments and impounding structures; general.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.216
- **30 CFR 77.216-3 — Water, sediment, or slurry impoundments and impounding structures; inspection requirements; correction of hazards; program requirements.** (4 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.216-3
- **30 CFR 77.1110 — 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 77.502 — 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 77.1713 — Daily inspection of surface coal mine; certified person; reports of inspection.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-R/section-77.1713
- **30 CFR 48.31 — Hazard training.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-B/section-48.31

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 22 rows; 2000-02-19 through 2018-03-09; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2023-05-23 through 2023-05-23; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 853 rows; 2000-01-03 through 2021-11-09; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 172 rows; 2001-09-26 through 2022-05-23; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 244 rows; 2000-01-25 through 2017-08-14; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 36 rows; 2000-12-19 through 2012-06-18; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 165 rows; 2007-05-02 through 2021-09-21; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 681 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 144 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 7 rows; 1977-02-01 through 2020-06-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 196 rows; 2000-01-03 through 2023-04-13; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 140 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 32 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 118 rows; 2000-04-11 through 2017-08-03; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 19 rows; 2000-04-11 through 2017-08-03; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 893 rows; 2000-01-03 through 2021-11-15; 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/bep-hignite-1510212`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/bep-hignite-1510212`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1510212/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1510212/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1510212/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`