# Copeland Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1517437
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Bell, KY
- **Operator:** Straight Creek Coal Resources Co
- **Controller:** Horizon Natural Resources Incorporated
- **Public source rows linked:** 960
- **Source coverage:** 14 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Horizon Natural Resources Incorporated (C06656) → Straight Creek Coal Resources Co (P24022) → Copeland Mine (1517437)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Thomas C  Lackey → Unicorn Mining Inc:** 1993-08-01 through 1999-08-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 1517437; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Carl  Kirk et al → North Star Mining Inc:** 1999-08-31 through 2001-05-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 1517437; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Charles  Collins → Calvary Coal Company Inc:** 2001-06-01 through 2002-03-12; derived from co-tenure at mine 1517437; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Horizon Natural Resources Incorporated → Straight Creek Coal Resources Co:** 2002-03-13 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1517437; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 4
- Typed edges: 12
- 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 10 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 429 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 202 violation rows across the full record; 89 carry an S&S flag and $37,169 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 385 samples:** Occupational health samples 327 coal dust; 32 coal quartz; 26 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 5 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 0 employee hours and 0 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 70 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 1 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 69 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 0 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 58 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 77.506 — Electric equipment and circuits; overload and short-circuit protection.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.506
- **30 CFR 75.800-2 — Approved circuit schemes.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-I/section-75.800-2
- **30 CFR 75.502 — Permits for noncompliance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.502
- **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 75.512 — Electric equipment; examination, testing and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.512
- **30 CFR 75.312 — Main mine fan examinations and records.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.312
- **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 75.370 — Mine ventilation plan; submission and approval.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.370
- **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 75.342 — Methane monitors.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.342

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 10 rows; 2000-01-12 through 2001-08-02; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2002-09-09 through 2002-09-09; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 199 rows; 2000-01-04 through 2002-05-13; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 1 rows; 2000-11-20 through 2000-11-20; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 327 rows; 2000-01-04 through 2001-12-19; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 69 rows; 2000-02-24 through 2001-05-22; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 4 rows; 1993-08-01 through 2002-03-13; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 58 rows; 2000-01-03 through 2002-11-14; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 24 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 6 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 26 rows; 2000-03-15 through 2001-02-21; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 32 rows; 2000-02-10 through 2001-12-18; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 202 rows; 2000-01-04 through 2002-05-13; 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/copeland-mine-1517437`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/copeland-mine-1517437`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1517437/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1517437/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1517437/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`