# Pontiki Plant

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1514324
- **Status:** NonProducing
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Martin, KY
- **Operator:** Lexington Coal Company, LLC
- **Controller:** Lexington Coal Holdings, Inc
- **Public source rows linked:** 3,761
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Lexington Coal Holdings, Inc (0137221) → Lexington Coal Company, LLC (0154153) → Pontiki Plant (1514324)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **MAPCO Inc → Pontiki Coal Corp:** 1983-11-01 through 1996-09-09; derived from co-tenure at mine 1514324; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alliance Resource Partners LP → Excel Mining LLC:** 1996-09-10 through 2014-03-24; derived from co-tenure at mine 1514324; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Scott  Kiscaden et al → Genesis Coal Services, LLC:** 2014-03-25 through 2014-09-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 1514324; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **(Donald) Todd  Kiscaden et al → Genesis Coal Services, LLC:** 2014-03-25 through 2014-09-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 1514324; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Jeffery A  Hoops → Revelation Energy, LLC:** 2014-10-01 through 2018-09-12; derived from co-tenure at mine 1514324; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Lexington Coal Holdings, Inc → Lexington Coal Company, LLC:** 2018-09-13 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1514324; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 6
- Typed edges: 16
- 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 30 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 581 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 1 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 649 violation rows across the full record; 287 carry an S&S flag and $238,095 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 431 samples:** Occupational health samples 293 coal dust; 15 coal quartz; 123 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 24 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 13K employee hours and 24 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 264 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 64 contested-violation rows, 112 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 88 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 19 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 — 24 since 2021:** Inspections 218 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.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.216-3
- **30 CFR 77.1104 — Accumulations of combustible materials.** (4 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1104
- **30 CFR 77.215-1 — Refuse piles; identification.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.215-1
- **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 77.215 — Refuse piles; construction requirements.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.215
- **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
- **30 CFR 77.204 — Openings in surface installations; safeguards.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.204
- **30 CFR 77.507 — Electric equipment; switches.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.507

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 30 rows; 2000-04-25 through 2019-12-11; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2024-11-26 through 2024-11-26; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 632 rows; 2000-04-04 through 2024-03-07; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 112 rows; 2001-06-18 through 2016-12-01; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 293 rows; 2000-02-02 through 2020-06-01; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 88 rows; 2000-05-04 through 2012-05-15; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 64 rows; 2008-02-05 through 2015-12-14; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 1,211 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 266 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 6 rows; 1983-11-01 through 2018-09-13; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 218 rows; 2000-02-08 through 2026-09-02; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 18 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 34 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 123 rows; 2000-04-10 through 2020-06-01; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 15 rows; 2000-04-06 through 2020-01-14; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 649 rows; 2000-04-04 through 2024-03-07; 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/pontiki-plant-1514324`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/pontiki-plant-1514324`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1514324/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1514324/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1514324/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`