# #12

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1515735
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Floyd, KY
- **Operator:** Viper Coal LLC
- **Controller:** Bee  Handshoe
- **Public source rows linked:** 211
- **Source coverage:** 12 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Bee  Handshoe (0073313) → Viper Coal LLC (0087105) → #12 (1515735)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Bennett  Quillen → Little Morgan Coal Company Inc:** 1986-09-01 through 2007-02-22; derived from co-tenure at mine 1515735; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **John R  Grounds → Goose Creek Energy Inc:** 2007-02-23 through 2008-03-02; derived from co-tenure at mine 1515735; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Bee  Handshoe → B & K Coal Inc:** 2008-03-03 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1515735; 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 2 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 171 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 52 violation rows across the full record; 21 carry an S&S flag and $9,175 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 56 samples:** Occupational health samples 48 coal dust; 3 coal quartz; 5 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 0 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 — 0 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 0 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 0 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 19 inspection events and 432 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 75.403 — Maintenance of incombustible content of rock dust.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-E/section-75.403
- **30 CFR 75.503 — Permissible electric face equipment; maintenance.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.503
- **30 CFR 75.400 — Accumulation of combustible materials.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-E/section-75.400
- **30 CFR 75.523-3 — Automatic emergency-parking brakes.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.523-3
- **30 CFR 75.515 — Cable fittings; suitability.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.515
- **30 CFR 75.1504 — Mine emergency evacuation training and drills.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-P/section-75.1504
- **30 CFR 75.1100-3 — Condition and examination of firefighting equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-L/section-75.1100-3
- **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
- **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 77.809 — Identification of circuit breakers and disconnecting switches.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-I/section-77.809

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 2 rows; 2008-07-16 through 2008-10-08; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2009-11-16 through 2009-11-16; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 51 rows; 2007-03-09 through 2009-01-20; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 48 rows; 2008-01-19 through 2009-02-06; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 1986-09-01 through 2008-03-03; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 19 rows; 2007-02-27 through 2009-03-03; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 21 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 5 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 5 rows; 2008-06-26 through 2008-06-26; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 3 rows; 2008-06-26 through 2008-12-09; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 52 rows; 2007-03-09 through 2009-01-20; 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/12-1515735`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/12-1515735`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1515735/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1515735/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1515735/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`