# Warrior Preparation Plant

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1514335
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Facility / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Hopkins, KY
- **Operator:** Warrior Coal, LLC
- **Controller:** Alliance Resource Partners LP
- **Public source rows linked:** 4,408
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Alliance Resource Partners LP (C15455) → Warrior Coal, LLC (P24534) → Warrior Preparation Plant (1514335)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **William D  Donan → Warrior Coal Mining Company:** 1983-11-01 through 1987-03-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 1514335; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Paul E  Roberts et al → Warrior Coal Mining Company:** 1987-04-01 through 2001-01-26; derived from co-tenure at mine 1514335; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alliance Resource Partners LP → Warrior Coal, LLC:** 2001-01-27 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1514335; 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 35 historical accident/injury rows; 2 coded fatalities and 389 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 64 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 382 violation rows across the full record; 101 carry an S&S flag and $68,421 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 625 samples:** Occupational health samples 447 coal dust; 8 coal quartz; 170 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 15 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 22K employee hours and 36 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 70 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 25 contested-violation rows, 25 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 20 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 17 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 — 53 since 2021:** Inspections 147 inspection events and 8K published inspection hours across the historical record.

## EIA annual operating context

- **Reporting year:** 2024
- **Production:** 0 short tons
- **Labor hours:** 76,560
- **Average employees:** 34
- **Coal supply region:** Illinois Basin
- **Union code:** Not published
- **Published rows under this MSHA ID:** 1

## Recent Title 30 crosswalk

Snapshot current through 2026-08-19.

- **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 77.504 — Electrical connections or splices; suitability.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.504
- **30 CFR 77.700-1 — Approved methods of grounding.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-H/section-77.700-1
- **30 CFR 77.205 — Travelways at surface installations.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.205
- **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 77.1104 — 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 77.1605 — 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 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 77.505 — Cable fittings; suitability.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.505
- **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

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 35 rows; 2002-12-19 through 2020-06-16; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 1984-05-02 through 1984-05-02; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 379 rows; 2000-02-22 through 2026-08-12; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 25 rows; 2007-03-13 through 2025-02-26; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 447 rows; 2000-02-16 through 2026-09-11; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 20 rows; 2003-10-15 through 2019-02-20; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 25 rows; 2006-07-17 through 2024-09-05; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 2,173 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 394 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 1983-11-01 through 2001-01-27; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 147 rows; 2000-02-16 through 2026-09-08; 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:** 37 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 170 rows; 2001-01-04 through 2025-12-10; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 8 rows; 2014-12-08 through 2025-06-16; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 382 rows; 2000-02-22 through 2026-08-12; 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/warrior-preparation-plant-1514335`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/warrior-preparation-plant-1514335`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1514335/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1514335/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1514335/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`