# #5

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1517643
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Bell, KY
- **Operator:** Kincaid Mining
- **Controller:** Elmer  Kincaid Jr
- **Public source rows linked:** 450
- **Source coverage:** 12 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Elmer  Kincaid Jr (C15030) → Kincaid Mining (P24730) → #5 (1517643)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Lonnie  Strunk → Crystal Coal Inc:** 1995-02-01 through 1997-06-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 1517643; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Smith Joey → Smith Enterprises:** 1997-07-01 through 1998-03-10; derived from co-tenure at mine 1517643; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Tommy  Violet → Magnum Coal Company Llc:** 1998-03-11 through 1998-04-19; derived from co-tenure at mine 1517643; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Eddie  Hendrickson → Monarch Mining:** 1998-04-20 through 1998-08-05; derived from co-tenure at mine 1517643; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Tommy  Violet → Magnum Coal Company Llc:** 1998-08-06 through 2001-09-16; derived from co-tenure at mine 1517643; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Eddie  Hendrickson → Monarch Mining:** 2001-09-17 through 2005-05-04; derived from co-tenure at mine 1517643; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Elmer  Kincaid Jr → Kincaid Mining Company Inc:** 2005-05-05 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1517643; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 7
- Typed edges: 19
- 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 1 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 106 violation rows across the full record; 44 carry an S&S flag and $11,307 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 175 samples:** Occupational health samples 161 coal dust; 10 coal quartz; 4 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 0 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 — 3K tons:** Quarterly production and employment 4K employee hours and 11 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 — 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 27 inspection events and 996 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 75.1100-2 — 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 75.400 — 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 75.372 — Mine ventilation map.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.372
- **30 CFR 75.503 — Permissible electric face equipment; maintenance.** (4 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.503
- **30 CFR 75.1721 — Opening of new underground coal mines, or reopening and reactivating of abandoned or deactivated coal mines, notification by the operator; requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1721
- **30 CFR 75.1722 — Mechanical equipment guards.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1722
- **30 CFR 75.204 — Roof bolting.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-C/section-75.204
- **30 CFR 75.523-1 — Deenergization of self-propelled electric face equipment installation requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.523-1

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 1 rows; 2002-03-24 through 2002-03-24; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2006-06-19 through 2006-06-19; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 98 rows; 2001-12-18 through 2006-03-22; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 161 rows; 2002-03-11 through 2006-06-06; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 7 rows; 1995-02-01 through 2005-05-05; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 27 rows; 2001-09-19 through 2006-04-04; 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:** 10 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 4 rows; 2004-09-14 through 2004-09-14; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 10 rows; 2002-04-04 through 2005-09-21; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 106 rows; 2001-12-18 through 2006-03-22; 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/5-1517643`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/5-1517643`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1517643/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1517643/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1517643/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`