# Bent Branch Plant

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1511654
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Facility / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Pike, KY
- **Operator:** Matergy, Inc.
- **Controller:** Paul  Snyder
- **Public source rows linked:** 485
- **Source coverage:** 14 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Paul  Snyder (0139401) → Matergy, Inc. (0155953) → Bent Branch Plant (1511654)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **General Exploration Company → Gex Land Company:** 1978-10-01 through 1988-08-23; derived from co-tenure at mine 1511654; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Shell Oil Company → Utility Coals Company:** 1988-08-24 through 1990-07-22; derived from co-tenure at mine 1511654; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Pittston Company → Holston Mining Inc:** 1990-07-23 through 2002-07-21; derived from co-tenure at mine 1511654; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Massey Energy Company → Sidney Coal Company, LLC:** 2002-07-22 through 2011-05-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 1511654; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. → Sidney Coal Company, LLC:** 2011-06-01 through 2016-07-25; derived from co-tenure at mine 1511654; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, Inc → Sidney Coal Company, LLC:** 2016-07-26 through 2018-02-15; derived from co-tenure at mine 1511654; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Paul  Snyder → Matergy, Inc.:** 2018-02-16 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1511654; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 7
- Typed edges: 19
- 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 2 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 97 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 3 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 65 violation rows across the full record; 14 carry an S&S flag and $4,801 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 48 samples:** Occupational health samples 21 coal dust; 27 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 7 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 60 employee hours and 1 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 1 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 0 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 1 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 1 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 — 3 since 2021:** Inspections 151 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 77.216-3 — 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 77.216-4 — Water, sediment or slurry impoundments and impounding structures; reporting requirements; certification.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.216-4
- **30 CFR 77.216 — Water, sediment, or slurry impoundments and impounding structures; general.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.216
- **30 CFR 77.214 — Refuse piles; general.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.214
- **30 CFR 77.205 — Travelways at surface installations.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.205

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 2 rows; 2000-01-14 through 2001-01-26; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2023-08-15 through 2023-08-15; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 55 rows; 2000-04-04 through 2021-04-13; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 21 rows; 2000-08-11 through 2001-10-23; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 1 rows; 2014-07-14 through 2014-07-14; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 7 rows; 1978-10-01 through 2018-02-16; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 151 rows; 2000-01-18 through 2022-08-25; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 146 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 6 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 27 rows; 2000-01-31 through 2001-10-31; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Violations:** 65 rows; 2000-04-04 through 2021-05-14; 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/bent-branch-plant-1511654`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/bent-branch-plant-1511654`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1511654/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1511654/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1511654/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`