# Gun Hill No 3

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1516717
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Floyd, KY
- **Operator:** Gun Hill Coal Inc
- **Controller:** Jill  Slone
- **Public source rows linked:** 533
- **Source coverage:** 12 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Jill  Slone (C15732) → Gun Hill Coal Inc (P23983) → Gun Hill No 3 (1516717)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Willie  Blankenship → F & B Coal Inc:** 1989-09-01 through 1992-12-22; derived from co-tenure at mine 1516717; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Billiter Michael → J & S Coal Inc:** 1992-12-23 through 2000-05-14; derived from co-tenure at mine 1516717; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Rex Dean  Osborn → N D O Coal Company Inc:** 2000-05-15 through 2001-02-28; derived from co-tenure at mine 1516717; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Jill  Slone → Gun Hill Coal Inc:** 2001-03-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1516717; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 4
- Typed edges: 12
- 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 146 violation rows across the full record; 77 carry an S&S flag and $18,550 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 125 samples:** Occupational health samples 115 coal dust; 5 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 — 44 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 0 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 44 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 52 inspection events and 1K 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 75.604 — Permanent splicing of trailing cables.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-G/section-75.604
- **30 CFR 75.342 — Methane monitors.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.342
- **30 CFR 75.606 — Protection of trailing cables.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-G/section-75.606
- **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 75.380 — Escapeways; bituminous and lignite mines.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.380
- **30 CFR 75.370 — Mine ventilation plan; submission and approval.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.370
- **30 CFR 75.1722 — Mechanical equipment guards.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1722
- **30 CFR 75.400 — Accumulation of combustible materials.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-E/section-75.400

## Source coverage

- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2003-07-11 through 2003-07-11; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 144 rows; 2000-06-30 through 2002-11-04; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 115 rows; 2000-07-24 through 2002-11-14; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 44 rows; 2000-10-04 through 2000-11-27; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 4 rows; 1989-09-01 through 2001-03-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 52 rows; 2000-06-07 through 2003-07-11; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 12 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 4 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 5 rows; 2002-07-15 through 2002-07-15; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 5 rows; 2000-07-24 through 2002-08-07; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 146 rows; 2000-06-30 through 2002-11-04; 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/gun-hill-no-3-1516717`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/gun-hill-no-3-1516717`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1516717/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1516717/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1516717/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`