# S A M #7 - **MSHA mine ID:** 1518245 - **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed - **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous) - **Location:** Pike, KY - **Operator:** South Akers Mining Llc - **Controller:** Harold E Akers; Jim D Akers - **Public source rows linked:** 346 - **Source coverage:** 12 / 20 - **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z ## Current entity hierarchy **Harold E Akers; Jim D Akers (C02535) → South Akers Mining Llc (P22951) → S A M #7 (1518245)** Current identity source: `msha-mines`. This is a current snapshot, not a historical claim. ## Controller and operator valid-time history - **Jim D Akers et al → South Akers Mining Llc:** 2000-03-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518245; source `msha-controller-operator-history`. - **Harold E Akers et al → South Akers Mining Llc:** 2000-03-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518245; source `msha-controller-operator-history`. - History rows: 2 - Typed edges: 4 - 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 6 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 1,215 lost days across the published record. 2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 68 violation rows across the full record; 42 carry an S&S flag and $7,279 appears in current assessed amounts. 3. **HEALTH — 133 samples:** Occupational health samples 125 coal dust; 8 coal quartz. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 0 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 — 6 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 0 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 6 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 34 inspection events and 654 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 75.202 — 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 75.513 — Electric conductor; capacity and insulation.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.513 - **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 75.900 — Low- and medium-voltage circuits serving three-phase alternating current equipment; circuit breakers.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-J/section-75.900 - **30 CFR 75.503 — Permissible electric face equipment; maintenance.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.503 - **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 75.400 — Accumulation of combustible materials.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-E/section-75.400 - **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 ## Source coverage - **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 6 rows; 2000-05-11 through 2001-11-08; source ID `msha-accidents` - **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2002-02-20 through 2002-02-20; source ID `msha-addresses` - **Assessed Violations:** 67 rows; 2000-03-16 through 2001-12-17; source ID `msha-assessed-violations` - **Coal Dust Samples:** 125 rows; 2000-04-19 through 2001-11-19; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples` - **Conferences:** 6 rows; 2000-06-27 through 2001-03-29; source ID `msha-conferences` - **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 2000-03-01 through 2000-03-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history` - **Inspections:** 34 rows; 2000-02-22 through 2002-01-04; source ID `msha-inspections` - **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 22 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` - **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 8 rows; 2000-07-26 through 2001-11-06; source ID `msha-quartz-samples` - **Violations:** 68 rows; 2000-03-16 through 2001-12-17; 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/s-a-m-7-1518245` - JSON: `/api/v1/mines/s-a-m-7-1518245` - Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1518245/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows) - Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1518245/relationships` - MCP resource: `mine://1518245/assessment` - Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`