# Jacks Creek

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1517861
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Floyd, KY
- **Operator:** Straight Fork Mining Inc
- **Controller:** Yvonne  Yonts
- **Public source rows linked:** 432
- **Source coverage:** 14 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Yvonne  Yonts (C14600) → Straight Fork Mining Inc (P23679) → Jacks Creek (1517861)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Larry  Yonts et al → Daves Branch Inc:** 1996-10-01 through 1997-01-29; derived from co-tenure at mine 1517861; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Ray  Slone et al → Daves Branch Inc:** 1996-10-01 through 1997-01-29; derived from co-tenure at mine 1517861; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Yvonne  Yonts et al → Straight Fork Mining Inc:** 1997-01-30 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1517861; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 3
- Typed edges: 7
- 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 3 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 95 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 97 violation rows across the full record; 58 carry an S&S flag and $17,543 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 111 samples:** Occupational health samples 99 coal dust; 9 coal quartz; 3 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 — 0 tons:** Quarterly production and employment 0 employee hours and 0 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 54 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 52 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 2 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 41 inspection events and 702 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 75.512-2 — Frequency of examinations.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.512-2
- **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 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 77.701 — Grounding metallic frames, casings, and other enclosures of electric equipment.** (4 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-H/section-77.701
- **30 CFR 77.516 — Electric wiring and equipment; installation and maintenance.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-F/section-77.516
- **30 CFR 75.518-1 — Electric equipment and circuits; overload and short circuit protection; minimum requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.518-1
- **30 CFR 75.606 — Protection of trailing cables.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-G/section-75.606
- **30 CFR 77.202 — Dust accumulations in surface installations.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.202

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 3 rows; 2000-09-20 through 2001-02-01; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2001-10-03 through 2001-10-03; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 97 rows; 2000-02-22 through 2001-04-03; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 52 rows; 2002-02-13 through 2002-02-13; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 99 rows; 2000-01-06 through 2001-04-03; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 2 rows; 2001-05-01 through 2001-05-01; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 1996-10-01 through 1997-01-30; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 41 rows; 2000-01-04 through 2001-10-02; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 18 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 6 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 3 rows; 2000-02-09 through 2000-02-09; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 9 rows; 2000-01-06 through 2001-02-06; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 97 rows; 2000-02-22 through 2001-04-03; 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/jacks-creek-1517861`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/jacks-creek-1517861`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1517861/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1517861/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1517861/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`