# Mine #1

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1517888
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Pike, KY
- **Operator:** Pond Creek Energy, Inc.
- **Controller:** Fred  Runyon Jr
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,656
- **Source coverage:** 16 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Fred  Runyon Jr (0040496) → Pond Creek Energy, Inc. (0050043) → Mine #1 (1517888)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Mullins Dale & Tom Et Al → M R M Mining Company Inc:** 1997-01-01 through 1997-05-04; derived from co-tenure at mine 1517888; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Dean  Francis → A & A Francis Energy Inc:** 1997-05-05 through 1997-07-23; derived from co-tenure at mine 1517888; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Brian  Preece → Ray-Mac Contracting Inc:** 1997-07-24 through 2000-12-03; derived from co-tenure at mine 1517888; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Timothy P  Smith → American Mining & Manufacturing Corp:** 2000-12-04 through 2001-10-22; derived from co-tenure at mine 1517888; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Fred  Runyon Jr → Pond Creek Energy, Inc.:** 2001-10-23 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1517888; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 5
- Typed edges: 15
- 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 8 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 318 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 385 violation rows across the full record; 193 carry an S&S flag and $61,633 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 367 samples:** Occupational health samples 315 coal dust; 30 coal quartz; 22 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 3 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 — 15K tons:** Quarterly production and employment 7K employee hours and 13 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 50 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 39 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 11 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 81 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 75.503 — 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 75.370 — Mine ventilation plan; submission and approval.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.370
- **30 CFR 75.1101-1 — Deluge-type water spray systems.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-L/section-75.1101-1
- **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 75.1403-6 — Criteria—Self-propelled personnel carriers.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-O/section-75.1403-6
- **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 75.380 — Escapeways; bituminous and lignite mines.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.380
- **30 CFR 75.400 — Accumulation of combustible materials.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-E/section-75.400

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 8 rows; 2001-06-15 through 2004-11-22; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2005-03-04 through 2005-03-04; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 374 rows; 2001-02-26 through 2004-11-18; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 39 rows; 2001-07-30 through 2001-09-24; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 315 rows; 2001-04-11 through 2004-10-20; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 11 rows; 2001-08-03 through 2003-03-04; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 288 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 43 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 5 rows; 1997-01-01 through 2001-10-23; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 81 rows; 2000-05-24 through 2005-01-06; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 41 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 12 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 22 rows; 2001-08-28 through 2004-01-27; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 30 rows; 2001-04-11 through 2004-10-06; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 385 rows; 2001-02-26 through 2004-11-18; 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-1-1517888`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/mine-1-1517888`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1517888/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1517888/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1517888/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`