# Pettys Fork Mine #1

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1517742
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Pike, KY
- **Operator:** AEP Kentucky Coal, L.L.C.
- **Controller:** American Electric Power Company Inc
- **Public source rows linked:** 776
- **Source coverage:** 14 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**American Electric Power Company Inc (C00329) → AEP Kentucky Coal, L.L.C. (0050002) → Pettys Fork Mine #1 (1517742)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Donn A  Chickering → Branham & Baker Coal Company Inc:** 1996-01-01 through 2001-10-29; derived from co-tenure at mine 1517742; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **American Electric Power Company Inc → AEP Kentucky Coal, L.L.C.:** 2001-10-30 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1517742; 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 1 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 1 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 90 violation rows across the full record; 21 carry an S&S flag and $6,158 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 98 samples:** Occupational health samples 77 coal dust; 10 coal quartz; 11 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 — 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 — 8 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 29 inspection events and 559 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 77.410 — 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 77.502-2 — Electric equipment; frequency of examination and testing.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.502-2
- **30 CFR 77.1713 — Daily inspection of surface coal mine; certified person; reports of inspection.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-R/section-77.1713
- **30 CFR 77.404 — Machinery and equipment; operation and maintenance.** (4 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.404
- **30 CFR 71.208 — Respirable dust samples; report to operator; posting.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-71/subpart-C/section-71.208
- **30 CFR 77.208 — Storage of materials.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.208
- **30 CFR 77.1104 — Accumulations of combustible materials.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1104
- **30 CFR 77.205 — Travelways at surface installations.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.205

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 1 rows; 2001-06-27 through 2001-06-27; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2004-11-16 through 2004-11-16; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 89 rows; 2000-11-29 through 2004-07-26; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 77 rows; 2001-05-29 through 2003-08-18; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 340 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 78 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 1996-01-01 through 2001-10-30; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 29 rows; 2000-02-01 through 2004-11-08; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 39 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 8 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 11 rows; 2001-12-03 through 2002-12-31; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 10 rows; 2001-07-11 through 2003-03-05; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 90 rows; 2000-11-29 through 2004-07-26; 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/pettys-fork-mine-1-1517742`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/pettys-fork-mine-1-1517742`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1517742/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1517742/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1517742/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`