# No 60

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1512941
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Leslie, KY
- **Operator:** Bledsoe Coal Corp
- **Controller:** James River Coal Company
- **Public source rows linked:** 249
- **Source coverage:** 14 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**James River Coal Company (C13562) → Bledsoe Coal Corp (P23317) → No 60 (1512941)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Geo-Energy Ltd → Bledsoe Deep Mining Company:** 1981-06-01 through 1985-03-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 1512941; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Paul J  Sturgill → Big Elk Creek Coal Company Inc:** 1985-04-01 through 1987-09-27; derived from co-tenure at mine 1512941; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Williams Companies Inc → Leeco Inc:** 1987-09-28 through 1995-06-19; derived from co-tenure at mine 1512941; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **James River Coal Company → Bledsoe Coal Corp:** 1995-06-20 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1512941; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 4
- Typed edges: 12
- 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: 2026-10-17T05:35:58.500035+00:00.

## Assessment signals

1. **SAFETY — 0 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 12 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 196 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 42 violation rows across the full record; 19 carry an S&S flag and $7,582 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 82 samples:** Occupational health samples 54 coal dust; 6 coal quartz; 22 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 8 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 — 6 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 4 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 2 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 0 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 — 0 since 2021:** Inspections 47 inspection events and 863 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 75.312 — Main mine fan examinations and records.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.312
- **30 CFR 75.1711-1 — Sealing of shaft openings.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1711-1
- **30 CFR 75.800-4 — Testing, examination, and maintenance of circuit breakers; record.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-I/section-75.800-4
- **30 CFR 75.512 — Electric equipment; examination, testing and maintenance.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.512
- **30 CFR 75.701 — 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-75/subpart-H/section-75.701
- **30 CFR 75.900 — Low- and medium-voltage circuits serving three-phase alternating current equipment; circuit breakers.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-J/section-75.900
- **30 CFR 75.503 — Permissible electric face equipment; maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.503
- **30 CFR 75.321 — Air quality.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.321
- **30 CFR 77.202 — Dust accumulations in surface installations.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.202
- **30 CFR 77.502 — Electric equipment; examination, testing, and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.502

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 12 rows; 2000-01-21 through 2000-06-14; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2001-05-07 through 2001-05-07; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 42 rows; 2000-01-05 through 2000-07-22; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 4 rows; 2000-07-11 through 2000-11-21; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 54 rows; 2000-01-10 through 2000-06-09; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 2 rows; 2000-03-07 through 2000-05-16; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 4 rows; 1981-06-01 through 1995-06-20; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 47 rows; 2000-01-05 through 2001-04-04; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 10 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 2 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 22 rows; 2000-01-05 through 2000-05-16; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 6 rows; 2000-01-17 through 2000-05-16; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 42 rows; 2000-01-05 through 2000-07-22; 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/no-60-1512941`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/no-60-1512941`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1512941/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1512941/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1512941/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`