# Smith Fork Mine No 1

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1516693
- **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:** 312
- **Source coverage:** 12 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**James River Coal Company (C13562) → Mc Coy Elkhorn Coal Corp (P19831) → Smith Fork Mine No 1 (1516693)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Dennis Allen  Ramey → United Fuels Inc:** 1989-08-01 through 1992-04-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 1516693; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **James River Coal Company → Mc Coy Elkhorn Coal Corp:** 1992-05-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1516693; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 2
- Typed edges: 6
- 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 6 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 122 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 46 violation rows across the full record; 19 carry an S&S flag and $7,683 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 168 samples:** Occupational health samples 151 coal dust; 7 coal quartz; 10 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 2 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 30 inspection events and 599 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 75.400 — Accumulation of combustible materials.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-E/section-75.400
- **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 75.208 — Warning devices.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-C/section-75.208
- **30 CFR 75.333 — Ventilation controls.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.333
- **30 CFR 75.1101-1 — Deluge-type water spray systems.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-L/section-75.1101-1
- **30 CFR 75.370 — Mine ventilation plan; submission and approval.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.370

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 6 rows; 2000-05-18 through 2000-11-14; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2001-07-23 through 2001-07-23; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 46 rows; 2000-01-13 through 2001-01-25; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 151 rows; 2000-01-05 through 2000-12-16; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 1989-08-01 through 1992-05-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 30 rows; 2000-01-04 through 2001-07-16; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 9 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 3 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 10 rows; 2000-01-05 through 2001-02-01; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 7 rows; 2000-01-06 through 2000-10-14; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 46 rows; 2000-01-13 through 2001-01-25; 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/smith-fork-mine-no-1-1516693`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/smith-fork-mine-no-1-1516693`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1516693/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1516693/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1516693/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`