# No 18

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1517874
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Harlan, KY
- **Operator:** Harlan Cumberland Coal Company LLC
- **Controller:** Joseph T  Bennett
- **Public source rows linked:** 2,308
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Joseph T  Bennett (C15915) → Harlan Cumberland Coal Company LLC (P00008) → No 18 (1517874)**

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:** 1996-11-01 through 2003-03-19; derived from co-tenure at mine 1517874; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Joseph T  Bennett  et al → Harlan Cumberland Coal Company LLC:** 2003-03-20 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1517874; 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 21 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 738 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 409 violation rows across the full record; 97 carry an S&S flag and $73,329 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 826 samples:** Occupational health samples 659 coal dust; 49 coal quartz; 118 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 20 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 587 employee hours and 1 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 303 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 139 contested-violation rows, 145 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 19 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 5 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 4K 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.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.404
- **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 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 75.1002 — Installation of electric equipment and conductors; permissibility.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-K/section-75.1002
- **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 75.517 — Power wires and cables; insulation and protection.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.517
- **30 CFR 75.601 — Short circuit protection of trailing cables.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-G/section-75.601
- **30 CFR 75.1103 — Automatic fire warning devices.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-L/section-75.1103

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 21 rows; 2003-06-02 through 2010-10-19; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2011-09-22 through 2011-09-22; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 403 rows; 2003-06-09 through 2011-03-21; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 145 rows; 2004-04-12 through 2012-05-30; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 659 rows; 2001-09-24 through 2011-04-11; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 19 rows; 2007-02-15 through 2007-08-29; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 139 rows; 2004-06-10 through 2011-03-18; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 141 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 32 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 1996-11-01 through 2003-03-20; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 80 rows; 2002-03-26 through 2011-09-01; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 71 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 18 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 118 rows; 2003-09-29 through 2011-03-14; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 49 rows; 2003-09-30 through 2011-01-20; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 409 rows; 2003-06-09 through 2011-03-21; 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/no-18-1517874`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/no-18-1517874`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1517874/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1517874/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1517874/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`