# Smith Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1511935
- **Status:** NonProducing
- **Type / commodity:** Facility / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Webster, KY
- **Operator:** Webster County Coal, LLC
- **Controller:** Alliance Resource Partners LP
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,132
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Alliance Resource Partners LP (C15455) → Webster County Coal, LLC (P23563) → Smith Mine (1511935)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Smith Jim R → Jim Smith Contracting Company Inc:** 1979-06-01 through 1986-06-05; derived from co-tenure at mine 1511935; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Smith Jim R & Larry Finley → J Smith Coal Inc:** 1986-06-06 through 1988-05-17; derived from co-tenure at mine 1511935; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Pyro Energy Corp → J Smith Coal Inc:** 1988-05-18 through 1989-08-18; derived from co-tenure at mine 1511935; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Costain Group PLC → Costain Coal Inc:** 1989-08-19 through 1997-07-20; derived from co-tenure at mine 1511935; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Iracoal Incorporated → Lodestar Energy, Inc.:** 1997-07-21 through 2004-04-05; derived from co-tenure at mine 1511935; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alliance Resource Partners LP → Hopkins County Coal LLC:** 2004-04-06 through 2013-05-22; derived from co-tenure at mine 1511935; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alliance Resource Partners LP → Webster County Coal, LLC:** 2013-05-23 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1511935; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 7
- Typed edges: 21
- 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 189 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 1 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 98 violation rows across the full record; 22 carry an S&S flag and $19,961 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 24 samples:** Occupational health samples 19 coal dust; 1 coal quartz; 4 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 0 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 — 39 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 15 contested-violation rows, 18 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 6 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 5 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 — 12 since 2021:** Inspections 89 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 41.12 — Changes; notification by operator.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-G/part-41/subpart-B/section-41.12
- **30 CFR 77.1607 — Loading and haulage equipment; operation.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1607
- **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 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 47.51 — Requirement for an MSDS.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-47/subpart-F/section-47.51
- **30 CFR 77.502 — Electric equipment; examination, testing, and maintenance.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.502
- **30 CFR 77.701 — Grounding metallic frames, casings, and other enclosures of electric equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-H/section-77.701
- **30 CFR 77.516 — Electric wiring and equipment; installation and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.516
- **30 CFR 48.28 — Annual refresher training of miners; minimum courses of instruction; hours of instruction.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-B/section-48.28
- **30 CFR 77.106 — Records of certified and qualified persons.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-B/section-77.106

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 2 rows; 2001-10-24 through 2016-03-28; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2000-01-12 through 2000-01-12; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 95 rows; 2000-02-08 through 2022-04-21; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 18 rows; 2003-02-27 through 2017-03-16; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 19 rows; 2000-02-15 through 2016-08-19; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 6 rows; 2000-10-31 through 2014-04-25; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 15 rows; 2008-11-26 through 2016-03-30; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 390 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 80 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 7 rows; 1979-06-01 through 2013-05-23; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 89 rows; 2000-01-14 through 2026-04-01; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 286 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 20 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 4 rows; 2001-09-05 through 2002-04-22; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 1 rows; 2016-03-07 through 2016-03-07; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 98 rows; 2000-02-08 through 2022-04-21; 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/smith-mine-1511935`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/smith-mine-1511935`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1511935/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1511935/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1511935/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`