# Island Mine #1

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1517515
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Hopkins, KY
- **Operator:** Hopkins County Coal LLC
- **Controller:** Alliance Resource Partners LP
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,321
- **Source coverage:** 15 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Alliance Resource Partners LP (C15455) → Hopkins County Coal LLC (P23879) → Island Mine #1 (1517515)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Andalex Resources B V → Andalex Resources Inc:** 1994-03-01 through 1998-01-23; derived from co-tenure at mine 1517515; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alliance Resource Partners LP → Hopkins County Coal LLC:** 1998-01-24 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1517515; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Robert E  Murray → Andalex Resources Inc:** 2006-08-09 through 1998-01-23; derived from co-tenure at mine 1517515; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 3
- Typed edges: 8
- Interval anomalies: 1
- 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 90 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 414 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 236 violation rows across the full record; 26 carry an S&S flag and $16,352 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 555 samples:** Occupational health samples 456 coal dust; 60 coal quartz; 39 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 7 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 — 30 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 3 contested-violation rows, 14 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 13 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 115 inspection events and 5K 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.** (4 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-E/section-75.400
- **30 CFR 75.403 — Maintenance of incombustible content of rock dust.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-E/section-75.403
- **30 CFR 75.360 — Preshift examination at fixed intervals.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.360
- **30 CFR 75.606 — Protection of trailing cables.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-G/section-75.606
- **30 CFR 75.402 — Rock dusting.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-E/section-75.402
- **30 CFR 75.1100-3 — Condition and examination of firefighting equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-L/section-75.1100-3
- **30 CFR 75.1909 — Nonpermissible diesel-powered equipment; design and performance requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-T/section-75.1909
- **30 CFR 75.321 — Air quality.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.321
- **30 CFR 77.1607 — Loading and haulage equipment; operation.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1607

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 90 rows; 2000-01-07 through 2003-04-21; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2003-07-25 through 2003-07-25; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 231 rows; 2000-01-10 through 2003-04-09; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 14 rows; 2000-07-10 through 2004-06-15; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 456 rows; 2000-01-04 through 2003-04-02; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 13 rows; 2000-02-08 through 2003-05-08; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 3 rows; 2003-03-09 through 2003-03-09; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 1994-03-01 through 1998-01-24; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 115 rows; 2000-01-04 through 2003-10-28; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 46 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 13 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 39 rows; 2000-02-29 through 2002-06-25; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 60 rows; 2000-02-23 through 2003-04-02; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 236 rows; 2000-01-10 through 2003-04-09; 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/island-mine-1-1517515`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/island-mine-1-1517515`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1517515/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1517515/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1517515/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`