# Mine #24

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1517578
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Pike, KY
- **Operator:** McCoy Elkhorn Coal Corporation
- **Controller:** James River Coal Company
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,134
- **Source coverage:** 14 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**James River Coal Company (C13562) → McCoy Elkhorn Coal Corporation (P19831) → Mine #24 (1517578)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Wesley  Childers → Victory Coal Co., Inc:** 1994-08-01 through 2003-01-19; derived from co-tenure at mine 1517578; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **James River Coal Company → McCoy Elkhorn Coal Corporation:** 2003-01-20 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1517578; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 2
- Typed edges: 6
- 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 9 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 279 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 267 violation rows across the full record; 114 carry an S&S flag and $34,423 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 366 samples:** Occupational health samples 317 coal dust; 22 coal quartz; 27 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 6 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 — 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 — 1 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 82 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 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 75.202 — Protection from falls of roof, face and ribs.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-C/section-75.202
- **30 CFR 75.220 — Roof control plan.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-C/section-75.220
- **30 CFR 75.334 — Worked-out areas and areas where pillars are being recovered.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.334
- **30 CFR 75.1107-4 — Automatic fire sensors and manual actuators; installation; minimum requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-L/section-75.1107-4
- **30 CFR 75.523-3 — Automatic emergency-parking brakes.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.523-3
- **30 CFR 75.1107-1 — Fire-resistant hydraulic fluids and fire suppression devices on underground equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-L/section-75.1107-1
- **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 75.1100-2 — Quantity and location of firefighting equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-L/section-75.1100-2
- **30 CFR 75.206 — Conventional roof support.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-C/section-75.206

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 9 rows; 2002-05-30 through 2005-05-09; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2006-05-30 through 2006-05-30; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 267 rows; 2000-06-27 through 2005-10-18; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 317 rows; 2000-01-12 through 2005-10-03; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 41 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 15 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 1994-08-01 through 2003-01-20; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 82 rows; 2000-02-23 through 2006-05-02; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 71 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 12 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 27 rows; 2001-10-01 through 2005-09-22; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 22 rows; 2000-07-10 through 2005-05-03; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 267 rows; 2000-06-27 through 2005-10-18; 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/mine-24-1517578`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/mine-24-1517578`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1517578/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1517578/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1517578/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`