# Bent Mountain Surface Mine #2

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1518015
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Pike, KY
- **Operator:** FR Performance LLC
- **Controller:** Freddie  Revis
- **Public source rows linked:** 7,203
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Freddie  Revis (0142161) → FR Performance LLC (0158134) → Bent Mountain Surface Mine #2 (1518015)**

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:** 1998-01-01 through 1999-11-15; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518015; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Iracoal Incorporated → Lodestar Energy, Inc:** 1999-11-16 through 2003-06-22; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518015; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **John C  Smith Jr → Appalachian Fuels LLC:** 2003-06-23 through 2006-01-16; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518015; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Energy Coal Resources Inc → Appalachian Fuels LLC:** 2006-01-17 through 2010-01-07; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518015; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **James C  Justice II et al → Kentucky Fuel Corporation:** 2010-01-08 through 2017-04-13; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518015; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Jillean L  Justice et al → Kentucky Fuel Corporation:** 2017-04-14 through 2018-07-23; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518015; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **James C  Justice lll et al → Kentucky Fuel Corporation:** 2017-04-14 through 2018-07-23; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518015; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Freddie  Revis → FR Performance LLC:** 2018-07-24 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518015; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **James C  Justice III → Kentucky Fuel Corporation:** 2022-09-14 through 2018-07-23; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518015; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 9
- Typed edges: 22
- Interval anomalies: 1
- 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 43 historical accident/injury rows; 1 coded fatalities and 1,324 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 706 violation rows across the full record; 333 carry an S&S flag and $223,694 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 862 samples:** Occupational health samples 568 coal dust; 54 coal quartz; 240 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 74 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 — 235 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 106 contested-violation rows, 118 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 11 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 62 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 — 7 since 2021:** Inspections 172 inspection events and 6K 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 77.1606 — Loading and haulage equipment; inspection and maintenance.** (4 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1606
- **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 77.1002 — Box cuts; spoil material placement.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-K/section-77.1002
- **30 CFR 77.1109 — Quantity and location of firefighting equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1109
- **30 CFR 71.100 — Respirable dust standard.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-71/subpart-B/section-71.100
- **30 CFR 77.1605 — Loading and haulage equipment; installations.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1605

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 43 rows; 2000-01-24 through 2019-02-23; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2026-02-10 through 2026-02-10; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 686 rows; 2000-06-03 through 2019-10-30; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 118 rows; 2001-04-09 through 2017-03-29; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 568 rows; 2000-02-29 through 2019-09-25; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 11 rows; 2001-02-06 through 2011-08-23; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 106 rows; 2001-09-17 through 2016-10-14; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 3,516 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 764 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 9 rows; 1998-01-01 through 2018-07-24; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 172 rows; 2000-02-29 through 2026-01-23; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 180 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 28 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 240 rows; 2000-09-07 through 2019-02-05; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 54 rows; 2000-02-29 through 2019-06-04; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 706 rows; 2000-06-03 through 2019-11-19; 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/bent-mountain-surface-mine-2-1518015`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/bent-mountain-surface-mine-2-1518015`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1518015/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1518015/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1518015/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`