# Highsplint Preparation Plant

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1512602
- **Status:** NonProducing
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Harlan, KY
- **Operator:** Harlan Cumberland Coal Company LLC
- **Controller:** Joseph T  Bennett
- **Public source rows linked:** 4,643
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Joseph T  Bennett (C15915) → Harlan Cumberland Coal Company LLC (P00008) → Highsplint Preparation Plant (1512602)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Duke Power Company → Eastover Mining Company:** 1980-10-01 through 1983-08-03; derived from co-tenure at mine 1512602; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Benjamin R.  Bennett → Manalapan Mining Company Inc:** 1983-08-04 through 2003-10-05; derived from co-tenure at mine 1512602; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Joseph T  Bennett  et al → Harlan Cumberland Coal Company LLC:** 2003-10-06 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1512602; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 3
- Typed edges: 9
- 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 26 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 448 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 1 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 1,052 violation rows across the full record; 330 carry an S&S flag and $169,351 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 355 samples:** Occupational health samples 232 coal dust; 16 coal quartz; 107 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 23 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 53 employee hours and 1 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 573 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 208 contested-violation rows, 346 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 19 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 22 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 — 32 since 2021:** Inspections 200 inspection events and 7K 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.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.216-3
- **30 CFR 62.190 — Records.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-M/part-62/section-62.190
- **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 77.410 — Mobile equipment; automatic warning devices.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.410
- **30 CFR 77.1605 — Loading and haulage equipment; installations.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1605
- **30 CFR 77.1104 — Accumulations of combustible materials.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1104
- **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
- **30 CFR 77.1606 — Loading and haulage equipment; inspection and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1606
- **30 CFR 77.1110 — Examination and maintenance of firefighting equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1110

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 26 rows; 2000-05-01 through 2014-06-11; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2021-04-08 through 2021-04-08; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 1,018 rows; 2000-02-24 through 2022-06-28; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 346 rows; 2000-05-08 through 2015-11-10; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 232 rows; 2000-01-25 through 2021-03-17; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 19 rows; 2000-04-20 through 2012-01-19; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 208 rows; 2002-06-04 through 2015-03-10; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 993 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 216 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 1980-10-01 through 2003-10-06; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 200 rows; 2000-02-24 through 2026-09-10; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 161 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 44 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 107 rows; 2000-04-24 through 2021-03-17; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 16 rows; 2002-03-20 through 2015-03-17; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 1,052 rows; 2000-02-24 through 2022-06-28; 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/highsplint-preparation-plant-1512602`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/highsplint-preparation-plant-1512602`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1512602/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1512602/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1512602/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`