# Bishop Branch Mine No 1

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1516223
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Pike, KY
- **Operator:** Mc Coy Elkhorn Coal Corp
- **Controller:** James River Coal Company
- **Public source rows linked:** 25
- **Source coverage:** 7 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**James River Coal Company (C13562) → Mc Coy Elkhorn Coal Corp (P19831) → Bishop Branch Mine No 1 (1516223)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **France Kermit & Stanley Osborne → Oakwood Mining Company:** 1987-11-01 through 1988-07-14; derived from co-tenure at mine 1516223; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **France Kermit → Oakwood Mining Company:** 1988-07-15 through 1989-04-26; derived from co-tenure at mine 1516223; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Dotson Joy Ann → Five Star Mining Inc:** 1989-04-27 through 1990-05-28; derived from co-tenure at mine 1516223; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Infinity Coal Corp → Hickory Hill Development Corp:** 1990-05-29 through 1991-09-03; derived from co-tenure at mine 1516223; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Garnie E  Johnson et al → Kinney Branch Mining Inc:** 1991-09-04 through 1994-07-26; derived from co-tenure at mine 1516223; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **James River Coal Company → Mc Coy Elkhorn Coal Corp:** 1994-07-27 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1516223; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 6
- Typed edges: 18
- 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 0 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 0 violation rows across the full record; 0 carry an S&S flag and $0 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 6 samples:** Occupational health samples 6 coal dust. 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 7 inspection events and 52 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.

No retained recent violation standard resolved to the current Title 30 index.

## Source coverage

- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2000-07-10 through 2000-07-10; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 6 rows; 2000-01-18 through 2000-01-18; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 6 rows; 1987-11-01 through 1994-07-27; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 7 rows; 2000-01-13 through 2001-01-05; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 3 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`

## 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/bishop-branch-mine-no-1-1516223`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/bishop-branch-mine-no-1-1516223`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1516223/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1516223/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1516223/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`