# Paradise #9

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1517741
- **Status:** NonProducing
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Muhlenberg, KY
- **Operator:** Kentucky Land Resources Inc.
- **Controller:** ACNR Holdings, Inc
- **Public source rows linked:** 37,493
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**ACNR Holdings, Inc (0157801) → Kentucky Land Resources Inc. (0173659) → Paradise #9 (1517741)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Robert E  Murray → KenAmerican Resources Inc:** 1995-12-01 through 2020-09-16; derived from co-tenure at mine 1517741; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **ACNR Holdings, Inc → Kentucky Land Resources Inc.:** 2020-09-17 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1517741; 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 805 historical accident/injury rows; 1 coded fatalities and 10,169 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 11 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 6,337 violation rows across the full record; 1,874 carry an S&S flag and $5,689,430 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 11K samples:** Occupational health samples 9,775 coal dust; 691 coal quartz; 692 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 199 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 510 employee hours and 1 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 6,486 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 2,587 contested-violation rows, 2,601 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 1,298 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 21 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 — 37 since 2021:** Inspections 1,279 inspection events and 75K 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 77.404 — Machinery and equipment; operation and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.404
- **30 CFR 48.31 — Hazard training.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-B/section-48.31
- **30 CFR 77.1104 — Accumulations of combustible materials.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1104
- **30 CFR 77.1605 — Loading and haulage equipment; installations.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1605
- **30 CFR 77.215 — Refuse piles; construction requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.215
- **30 CFR 77.700-1 — Approved methods of grounding.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-H/section-77.700-1
- **30 CFR 77.505 — Cable fittings; suitability.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.505

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 805 rows; 2000-01-20 through 2019-07-31; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2019-02-23 through 2019-02-23; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 6,219 rows; 2000-01-05 through 2025-01-29; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 2,601 rows; 2000-05-03 through 2021-11-01; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 9,775 rows; 2000-01-17 through 2025-04-22; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 1,298 rows; 2000-02-17 through 2025-03-12; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 2,587 rows; 2004-11-08 through 2020-01-21; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 3,883 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 858 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 1995-12-01 through 2020-09-17; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 1,279 rows; 2000-01-03 through 2026-08-13; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 380 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 84 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 692 rows; 2001-01-03 through 2024-09-17; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 691 rows; 2000-02-02 through 2019-02-11; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 6,337 rows; 2000-01-05 through 2025-01-29; 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/paradise-9-1517741`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/paradise-9-1517741`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1517741/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1517741/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1517741/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`