# Branham & Baker Coal Terminal

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1512199
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Facility / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Boyd, KY
- **Operator:** Branham & Baker Coal Company, LLC
- **Controller:** Donn A  Chickering
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,788
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Donn A  Chickering (C01543) → Branham & Baker Coal Company, LLC (0187433) → Branham & Baker Coal Terminal (1512199)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Richard M  Johnson → Lockwood Coal Company:** 1979-12-01 through 1981-07-27; derived from co-tenure at mine 1512199; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **David A  Jones → Riverway South Inc:** 1981-07-28 through 1983-07-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 1512199; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Richard L  Cooper → Riverway South Inc:** 1983-08-01 through 2007-11-08; derived from co-tenure at mine 1512199; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Daniel D  Tayloe → Riverway South Inc:** 2007-11-09 through 2023-02-27; derived from co-tenure at mine 1512199; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Donn A  Chickering → Branham & Baker Coal Company, LLC:** 2023-02-28 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1512199; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 5
- Typed edges: 14
- 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 14 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 307 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 60 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 231 violation rows across the full record; 96 carry an S&S flag and $31,644 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 448 samples:** Occupational health samples 291 coal dust; 12 coal quartz; 145 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 1 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 1K employee hours and 2 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 39 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 16 contested-violation rows, 16 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 7 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 9 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 — 27 since 2021:** Inspections 118 inspection events and 4K published inspection hours across the historical record.

## EIA annual operating context

- **Reporting year:** 2024
- **Production:** 0 short tons
- **Labor hours:** 7,945
- **Average employees:** 4
- **Coal supply region:** Appalachia Central
- **Union code:** Not published
- **Published rows under this MSHA ID:** 2

## Recent Title 30 crosswalk

Snapshot current through 2026-08-19.

- **30 CFR 77.502-2 — Electric equipment; frequency of examination and testing.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.502-2
- **30 CFR 77.512 — Inspection and cover plates.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.512
- **30 CFR 77.505 — Cable fittings; suitability.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.505
- **30 CFR 77.205 — Travelways at surface installations.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.205
- **30 CFR 77.1104 — Accumulations of combustible materials.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1104
- **30 CFR 77.400 — Mechanical equipment guards.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.400
- **30 CFR 77.904 — Identification of circuit breakers.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-J/section-77.904
- **30 CFR 77.404 — Machinery and equipment; operation and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.404

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 14 rows; 2001-09-24 through 2021-09-20; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2023-04-17 through 2023-04-17; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 228 rows; 2000-01-19 through 2026-06-08; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 16 rows; 2013-11-06 through 2025-04-03; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 291 rows; 2000-02-03 through 2026-07-10; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 7 rows; 2000-12-19 through 2000-12-19; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 16 rows; 2012-07-23 through 2025-12-18; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 405 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 76 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 5 rows; 1979-12-01 through 2023-02-28; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 118 rows; 2000-01-14 through 2026-09-23; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 185 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 37 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 145 rows; 2000-02-03 through 2026-07-10; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 12 rows; 2003-02-03 through 2026-06-25; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 231 rows; 2000-01-19 through 2026-06-08; 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/branham-baker-coal-terminal-1512199`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/branham-baker-coal-terminal-1512199`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1512199/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1512199/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1512199/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`