# Hip-High Mine # 1

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1517571
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Letcher, KY
- **Operator:** Enterprise Mining Company, L. L. C.
- **Controller:** Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, Inc
- **Public source rows linked:** 762
- **Source coverage:** 15 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, Inc (0127923) → Enterprise Mining Company, L. L. C. (0051027) → Hip-High Mine # 1 (1517571)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **El Paso Energy Corp → Coastal Coal Company, LLC:** 1994-07-01 through 2003-01-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 1517571; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. → Enterprise Mining Company, L. L. C.:** 2003-02-01 through 2016-07-25; derived from co-tenure at mine 1517571; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Amfire LLC → Enterprise Mining Company, L. L. C.:** 2003-02-01 through 2003-01-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 1517571; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, Inc → Enterprise Mining Company, L. L. C.:** 2016-07-26 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1517571; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 4
- Typed edges: 10
- 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 18 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 504 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 117 violation rows across the full record; 52 carry an S&S flag and $19,037 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 355 samples:** Occupational health samples 302 coal dust; 49 coal quartz; 4 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 0 employee hours and 0 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 3 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 0 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 3 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 2 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 67 inspection events and 1K 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 48.9 — Records of training.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-A/section-48.9
- **30 CFR 75.523-3 — Automatic emergency-parking brakes.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.523-3
- **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 72.630 — Drill dust control at underground areas of underground mines.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-72/subpart-E/section-72.630
- **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 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 75.202 — Protection from falls of roof, face and ribs.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-C/section-75.202
- **30 CFR 75.604 — Permanent splicing of trailing cables.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-G/section-75.604
- **30 CFR 75.211 — Roof testing and scaling.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-C/section-75.211
- **30 CFR 75.380 — Escapeways; bituminous and lignite mines.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.380

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 18 rows; 2000-02-09 through 2001-10-09; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2003-10-17 through 2003-10-17; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 116 rows; 2000-01-04 through 2003-03-19; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 302 rows; 2000-01-03 through 2002-02-15; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 3 rows; 2002-02-04 through 2002-02-04; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 40 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 6 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 4 rows; 1994-07-01 through 2003-02-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 67 rows; 2000-01-03 through 2003-07-16; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 27 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 7 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 4 rows; 2000-01-06 through 2000-01-06; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 49 rows; 2000-01-04 through 2002-02-05; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 117 rows; 2000-01-04 through 2003-03-19; 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/hip-high-mine-1-1517571`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/hip-high-mine-1-1517571`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1517571/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1517571/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1517571/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`