# Mine #16

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1517811
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Harlan, KY
- **Operator:** Manalapan Mining Company Inc
- **Controller:** Benjamin R.  Bennett
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,734
- **Source coverage:** 16 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Benjamin R.  Bennett (C00015) → Manalapan Mining Company Inc (P14483) → Mine #16 (1517811)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Benjamin R.  Bennett → Manalapan Mining Company Inc:** 1996-07-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1517811; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 1
- Typed edges: 3
- 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 37 historical accident/injury rows; 1 coded fatalities and 898 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 374 violation rows across the full record; 125 carry an S&S flag and $70,406 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 463 samples:** Occupational health samples 378 coal dust; 40 coal quartz; 45 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 17 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 3K employee hours and 7 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 248 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 164 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 84 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 80 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 75.512 — Electric equipment; examination, testing and maintenance.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.512
- **30 CFR 75.364 — Weekly examination.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.364
- **30 CFR 50.30 — Preparation and submission of MSHA Form 7000-2—Quarterly Employment and Coal Production Report.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-D/section-50.30
- **30 CFR 75.1714-3 — Self-rescue devices; inspection, testing, maintenance, repair, and recordkeeping.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1714-3
- **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 75.503 — 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 75.604 — 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 75.370 — Mine ventilation plan; submission and approval.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.370
- **30 CFR 75.1107-7 — Water spray devices; capacity; water supply; minimum requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-L/section-75.1107-7

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 37 rows; 2000-03-04 through 2002-11-12; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2002-12-23 through 2002-12-23; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 365 rows; 2000-01-20 through 2002-09-17; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 164 rows; 2000-06-20 through 2003-04-22; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 378 rows; 2000-01-10 through 2002-08-22; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 84 rows; 2000-02-29 through 2002-08-07; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 103 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 17 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 1996-07-01 through 1996-07-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 80 rows; 2000-01-20 through 2003-09-11; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 35 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 9 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 45 rows; 2000-03-21 through 2002-08-15; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 40 rows; 2000-03-21 through 2002-08-15; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 374 rows; 2000-01-20 through 2002-09-17; 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-16-1517811`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/mine-16-1517811`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1517811/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1517811/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1517811/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`