# No 67

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1517298
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Leslie, KY
- **Operator:** Bledsoe Coal Corporation
- **Controller:** James River Coal Company
- **Public source rows linked:** 240
- **Source coverage:** 16 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**James River Coal Company (C13562) → Bledsoe Coal Corporation (P23317) → No 67 (1517298)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Williams Companies Inc → Leeco Inc:** 1992-09-01 through 2000-09-20; derived from co-tenure at mine 1517298; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **James River Coal Company → Bledsoe Coal Corporation:** 2000-09-21 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1517298; 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 13 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 447 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 15 violation rows across the full record; 8 carry an S&S flag and $1,069 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 116 samples:** Occupational health samples 95 coal dust; 11 coal quartz; 10 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 3 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 290 employee hours and 1 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 6 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 3 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 3 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 1 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 25 inspection events and 645 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 75.400 — 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
- **30 CFR 77.410 — Mobile equipment; automatic warning devices.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.410
- **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 75.503 — 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 62.120 — Action level.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-M/part-62/section-62.120
- **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 75.204 — Roof bolting.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-C/section-75.204
- **30 CFR 75.1403-10 — Criteria—Haulage; general.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-O/section-75.1403-10
- **30 CFR 75.220 — Roof control plan.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-C/section-75.220

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 13 rows; 2001-01-31 through 2002-02-21; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2002-09-09 through 2002-09-09; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 14 rows; 2001-04-09 through 2002-02-19; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 3 rows; 2003-01-13 through 2003-01-13; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 95 rows; 2001-03-12 through 2002-02-20; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 3 rows; 2001-07-25 through 2001-07-25; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 21 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 8 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 1992-09-01 through 2000-09-21; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 25 rows; 2000-09-26 through 2002-06-17; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 14 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:** 10 rows; 2001-06-20 through 2002-01-16; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 11 rows; 2001-05-07 through 2002-02-20; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 15 rows; 2001-04-09 through 2002-02-19; 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/no-67-1517298`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/no-67-1517298`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1517298/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1517298/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1517298/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`