# Kentucky-Wallins

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1518043
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Harlan, KY
- **Operator:** Powell Mountain Coal Company Inc
- **Controller:** Progress Energy Inc
- **Public source rows linked:** 2,229
- **Source coverage:** 16 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Progress Energy Inc (C16016) → Powell Mountain Coal Company Inc (P24575) → Kentucky-Wallins (1518043)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Florida Progress Corporation → Powell Mountain Coal Company Inc:** 1998-04-01 through 2000-11-29; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518043; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Progress Energy Inc → Powell Mountain Coal Company Inc:** 2000-11-30 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518043; 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 30 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 1,334 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 557 violation rows across the full record; 242 carry an S&S flag and $83,871 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 712 samples:** Occupational health samples 600 coal dust; 75 coal quartz; 37 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 1 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 — 17K tons:** Quarterly production and employment 9K employee hours and 20 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 117 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 46 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 71 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 4 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 104 inspection events and 3K 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.** (2 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.** (5 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.404
- **30 CFR 48.28 — Annual refresher training of miners; minimum courses of instruction; hours of instruction.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-B/section-48.28
- **30 CFR 77.1104 — Accumulations of combustible materials.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1104

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 30 rows; 2000-01-07 through 2003-04-22; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2003-10-06 through 2003-10-06; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 534 rows; 2000-01-20 through 2003-04-22; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 46 rows; 2000-10-16 through 2002-07-17; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 600 rows; 2000-01-31 through 2003-04-26; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 71 rows; 2000-03-14 through 2003-01-07; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 99 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 24 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 1998-04-01 through 2000-11-30; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 104 rows; 2000-01-20 through 2003-07-16; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 38 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 10 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 37 rows; 2000-03-16 through 2002-12-16; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 75 rows; 2000-03-16 through 2003-02-12; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 557 rows; 2000-01-20 through 2003-05-01; 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/kentucky-wallins-1518043`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/kentucky-wallins-1518043`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1518043/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1518043/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1518043/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`