# No 8

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1518239
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Johnson, KY
- **Operator:** Taurus Coal Company Inc
- **Controller:** James H  Booth
- **Public source rows linked:** 728
- **Source coverage:** 16 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**James H  Booth (C11194) → Taurus Coal Company Inc (P21992) → No 8 (1518239)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **James H  Booth et al → Taurus Coal Company Inc:** 2000-02-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518239; 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 2 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 89 violation rows across the full record; 27 carry an S&S flag and $7,576 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 188 samples:** Occupational health samples 167 coal dust; 10 coal quartz; 11 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 — 0 tons:** Quarterly production and employment 0 employee hours and 0 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 82 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 40 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 42 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 47 inspection events and 1K 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 75.372 — Mine ventilation map.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.372
- **30 CFR 77.1104 — Accumulations of combustible materials.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1104
- **30 CFR 75.606 — Protection of trailing cables.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-G/section-75.606
- **30 CFR 77.410 — Mobile equipment; automatic warning devices.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.410
- **30 CFR 75.517 — Power wires and cables; insulation and protection.** (6 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.517
- **30 CFR 75.403 — Maintenance of incombustible content of rock dust.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-E/section-75.403
- **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:** 2 rows; 2000-06-10 through 2001-04-26; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2004-11-23 through 2004-11-23; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 88 rows; 2000-05-08 through 2002-09-19; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 40 rows; 2000-09-28 through 2002-11-26; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 167 rows; 2000-04-11 through 2002-11-15; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 42 rows; 2000-08-08 through 2001-03-30; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 170 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 27 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 2000-02-01 through 2000-02-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 47 rows; 2000-03-21 through 2004-11-23; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 26 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:** 11 rows; 2001-02-21 through 2002-09-17; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 10 rows; 2000-05-02 through 2002-05-29; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 89 rows; 2000-05-08 through 2002-09-19; 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/no-8-1518239`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/no-8-1518239`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1518239/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1518239/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1518239/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`