# Bucky Ridge Surface Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1517280
- **Status:** Temporarily Idled
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Pike, KY
- **Operator:** Clintwood JOD, LLC
- **Controller:** JOD Holdings LLC
- **Public source rows linked:** 2,114
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**JOD Holdings LLC (0151681) → Clintwood JOD, LLC (0167173) → Bucky Ridge Surface Mine (1517280)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **J O  Johnson → Corvette Mining Company Inc:** 1992-08-01 through 1994-03-29; derived from co-tenure at mine 1517280; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Terry Charles  Marshall → Big Creek Mining Inc:** 1994-03-30 through 2000-08-10; derived from co-tenure at mine 1517280; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **James H  Booth et al → Apex Energy Inc:** 2000-08-11 through 2019-06-15; derived from co-tenure at mine 1517280; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **J Mark  Campbell → Apex Energy Inc:** 2019-06-16 through 2019-10-28; derived from co-tenure at mine 1517280; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **JOD Holdings LLC → Clintwood JOD, LLC:** 2019-10-29 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1517280; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 5
- Typed edges: 14
- 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: 2026-10-17T05:35:58.500035+00:00.

## Assessment signals

1. **SAFETY — 0 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 15 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 161 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 160 violation rows across the full record; 84 carry an S&S flag and $23,681 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 384 samples:** Occupational health samples 292 coal dust; 17 coal quartz; 75 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 8 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 — 156K tons:** Quarterly production and employment 33K employee hours and 53 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 19 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 8 contested-violation rows, 8 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 3 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 6 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 — 5 since 2021:** Inspections 90 inspection events and 2K 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 77.404 — Machinery and equipment; operation and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.404
- **30 CFR 77.1606 — Loading and haulage equipment; inspection and maintenance.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1606
- **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 77.206 — Ladders; construction; installation and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.206
- **30 CFR 77.502 — Electric equipment; examination, testing, and maintenance.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.502
- **30 CFR 77.402 — Hand-held power tools; safety devices.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.402
- **30 CFR 77.400 — Mechanical equipment guards.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.400

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 15 rows; 2000-04-17 through 2009-01-09; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2018-09-20 through 2018-09-20; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 157 rows; 2000-04-29 through 2012-03-06; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 8 rows; 2009-11-03 through 2013-02-06; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 292 rows; 2000-01-29 through 2012-02-21; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 3 rows; 2001-08-16 through 2001-08-16; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 8 rows; 2008-08-20 through 2012-02-29; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 1,045 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 203 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 5 rows; 1992-08-01 through 2019-10-29; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 90 rows; 2000-02-08 through 2026-05-08; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 11 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 23 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 75 rows; 2000-02-08 through 2011-04-05; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 17 rows; 2000-06-27 through 2002-05-21; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 160 rows; 2000-04-29 through 2012-03-06; 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/bucky-ridge-surface-mine-1517280`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/bucky-ridge-surface-mine-1517280`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1517280/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1517280/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1517280/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`