# No 7

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1518061
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Pike, KY
- **Operator:** Ember Contracting Inc
- **Controller:** Randy  Gilkerson
- **Public source rows linked:** 505
- **Source coverage:** 13 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Randy  Gilkerson (C13803) → Ember Contracting Inc (P22063) → No 7 (1518061)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Randy  Gilkerson et al → Ember Contracting Inc:** 1998-06-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518061; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 1
- Typed edges: 3
- 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 12 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 634 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 74 violation rows across the full record; 42 carry an S&S flag and $9,988 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 268 samples:** Occupational health samples 224 coal dust; 35 coal quartz; 9 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 — 0 tons:** Quarterly production and employment 0 employee hours and 0 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 1 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 0 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 1 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 43 inspection events and 985 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 75.360 — Preshift examination at fixed intervals.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.360
- **30 CFR 75.523 — Electric face equipment; deenergization.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.523
- **30 CFR 75.1714-3 — Self-rescue devices; inspection, testing, maintenance, repair, and recordkeeping.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1714-3
- **30 CFR 77.404 — Machinery and equipment; operation and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.404
- **30 CFR 75.1722 — Mechanical equipment guards.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1722
- **30 CFR 75.902 — Low- and medium-voltage ground check monitor circuits.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-J/section-75.902
- **30 CFR 75.900 — Low- and medium-voltage circuits serving three-phase alternating current equipment; circuit breakers.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-J/section-75.900
- **30 CFR 75.701 — Grounding metallic frames, casings, and other enclosures of electric equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-H/section-75.701
- **30 CFR 75.1715 — Identification check system.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1715

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 12 rows; 2000-03-29 through 2002-01-02; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2002-10-16 through 2002-10-16; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 74 rows; 2000-02-09 through 2002-08-26; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 224 rows; 2000-01-03 through 2002-07-19; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 1 rows; 2000-12-06 through 2000-12-06; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 1998-06-01 through 1998-06-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 43 rows; 2000-01-03 through 2002-10-07; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 24 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:** 9 rows; 2000-02-09 through 2002-05-08; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 35 rows; 2000-02-09 through 2002-07-09; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 74 rows; 2000-02-09 through 2002-08-26; 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-7-1518061`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/no-7-1518061`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1518061/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1518061/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1518061/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`