# No 10 Surface

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1517307
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Pike, KY
- **Operator:** LCC Kentucky LLC
- **Controller:** Lexington Coal Company LLC
- **Public source rows linked:** 323
- **Source coverage:** 14 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Lexington Coal Company LLC (0045767) → LCC Kentucky LLC (0055096) → No 10 Surface (1517307)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Thomas A  Potter et al → Sunny Ridge Mining Company Inc:** 1992-10-01 through 1999-06-07; derived from co-tenure at mine 1517307; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **John M  Potter et al → Sunny Ridge Mining Company Inc:** 1992-10-01 through 1999-06-07; derived from co-tenure at mine 1517307; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Horizon Natural Resources Incorporated → Sunny Ridge Mining Co., Inc:** 1999-06-08 through 2004-09-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 1517307; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Lexington Coal Company LLC → LCC Kentucky LLC:** 2004-10-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1517307; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 4
- Typed edges: 10
- 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 1 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 64 violation rows across the full record; 35 carry an S&S flag and $6,816 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 40 samples:** Occupational health samples 29 coal dust; 1 coal quartz; 10 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 1 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 440 employee hours and 2 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 — 3 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 29 inspection events and 603 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 48.31 — Hazard training.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-B/section-48.31
- **30 CFR 77.400 — Mechanical equipment guards.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.400
- **30 CFR 77.404 — Machinery and equipment; operation and maintenance.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.404
- **30 CFR 77.410 — Mobile equipment; automatic warning devices.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.410
- **30 CFR 77.1605 — Loading and haulage equipment; installations.** (4 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1605

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 1 rows; 2005-05-13 through 2005-05-13; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2005-11-04 through 2005-11-04; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 62 rows; 2003-02-11 through 2010-07-28; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 29 rows; 2003-02-25 through 2004-07-13; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 66 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 22 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 4 rows; 1992-10-01 through 2004-10-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 29 rows; 2000-06-27 through 2010-07-30; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 28 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 5 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 10 rows; 2003-03-24 through 2003-11-19; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 1 rows; 2003-11-13 through 2003-11-13; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 64 rows; 2003-02-11 through 2010-07-28; 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-10-surface-1517307`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/no-10-surface-1517307`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1517307/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1517307/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1517307/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`