# Pe Letcher County

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1517364
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Letcher, KY
- **Operator:** Premier Elkhorn Coal Company
- **Controller:** J Mark  Campbell
- **Public source rows linked:** 3,093
- **Source coverage:** 16 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**J Mark  Campbell (0149203) → Premier Elkhorn Coal Company (P21756) → Pe Letcher County (1517364)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **TECO Energy Inc → Premier Elkhorn Coal Company:** 1993-02-01 through 2015-09-20; derived from co-tenure at mine 1517364; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **James H  Booth et al → Premier Elkhorn Coal Company:** 2015-09-21 through 2019-06-15; derived from co-tenure at mine 1517364; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **J Mark  Campbell → Premier Elkhorn Coal Company:** 2019-06-16 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1517364; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 3
- Typed edges: 7
- 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 15 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 630 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 277 violation rows across the full record; 93 carry an S&S flag and $27,014 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 316 samples:** Occupational health samples 242 coal dust; 20 coal quartz; 54 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 13 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 188 employee hours and 1 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 27 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 6 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 21 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 17 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 77 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 77.1505 — Auger holes; blocking.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-P/section-77.1505
- **30 CFR 77.1004 — Ground control; inspection and maintenance; general.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-K/section-77.1004
- **30 CFR 77.1005 — Scaling highwalls; general.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-K/section-77.1005
- **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 77.1302 — Vehicles used to transport explosives.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-N/section-77.1302
- **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 77.1000 — Highwalls, pits and spoil banks; plans.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-K/section-77.1000
- **30 CFR 77.1301 — Explosives; magazines.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-N/section-77.1301
- **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 77.1605 — Loading and haulage equipment; installations.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1605
- **30 CFR 77.1110 — Examination and maintenance of firefighting equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1110
- **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

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 15 rows; 2000-01-28 through 2004-05-20; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2009-03-20 through 2009-03-20; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 269 rows; 2000-01-17 through 2009-01-07; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 6 rows; 1999-12-22 through 2003-05-27; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 242 rows; 2000-01-07 through 2005-02-02; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 21 rows; 2000-06-02 through 2008-02-04; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 1,710 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 350 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 1993-02-01 through 1993-02-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 77 rows; 2000-01-26 through 2009-01-07; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 37 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 10 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 54 rows; 2001-08-06 through 2004-09-01; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 20 rows; 2000-01-07 through 2002-08-21; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 277 rows; 2000-01-17 through 2009-01-07; 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/pe-letcher-county-1517364`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/pe-letcher-county-1517364`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1517364/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1517364/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1517364/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`