# Richland No 9

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1517232
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Hopkins, KY
- **Operator:** Warrior Coal LLC.
- **Controller:** Alliance Resource Partners LP
- **Public source rows linked:** 5,259
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Alliance Resource Partners LP (C15455) → Warrior Coal LLC. (P24534) → Richland No 9 (1517232)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Gary E  Peyton → Pleasant View Mining Company Inc:** 1992-05-01 through 2011-10-10; derived from co-tenure at mine 1517232; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alliance Resource Partners LP → Warrior Coal LLC.:** 2011-10-11 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1517232; 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 102 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 1,357 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 1,261 violation rows across the full record; 384 carry an S&S flag and $446,281 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 1K samples:** Occupational health samples 887 coal dust; 41 coal quartz; 101 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 14 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 5K employee hours and 22 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 1,007 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 413 contested-violation rows, 413 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 181 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 2 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 174 inspection events and 13K 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 50.20 — Preparation and submission of MSHA Report Form 7000-1—Mine Accident, Injury, and Illness Report.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-C/section-50.20
- **30 CFR 75.1725 — Machinery and equipment; operation and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1725
- **30 CFR 75.1403 — Other safeguards.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-O/section-75.1403
- **30 CFR 75.223 — Evaluation and revision of roof control plan.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-C/section-75.223
- **30 CFR 75.1731 — Maintenance of belt conveyors and belt conveyor entries.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1731
- **30 CFR 75.202 — Protection from falls of roof, face and ribs.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-C/section-75.202
- **30 CFR 75.362 — On-shift examination.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.362
- **30 CFR 75.360 — Preshift examination at fixed intervals.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.360
- **30 CFR 75.402 — Rock dusting.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-E/section-75.402

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 102 rows; 2001-11-05 through 2015-02-02; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2015-01-30 through 2015-01-30; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 1,240 rows; 2001-10-10 through 2015-01-21; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 413 rows; 2008-02-11 through 2016-06-21; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 887 rows; 2000-11-07 through 2014-11-21; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 181 rows; 2002-08-06 through 2015-08-28; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 413 rows; 2007-05-01 through 2015-01-07; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 203 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 42 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 1992-05-01 through 2011-10-11; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 174 rows; 2000-01-11 through 2015-05-20; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 164 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 33 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 101 rows; 2004-08-16 through 2014-09-25; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 41 rows; 2004-10-19 through 2014-10-23; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 1,261 rows; 2001-10-10 through 2015-01-21; 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/richland-no-9-1517232`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/richland-no-9-1517232`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1517232/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1517232/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1517232/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`