# Rough Creek Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1518335
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Facility / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Union, KY
- **Operator:** Rough Creek Mining, LLC
- **Controller:** Alliance Resource Partners LP
- **Public source rows linked:** 18,520
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Alliance Resource Partners LP (C15455) → Rough Creek Mining, LLC (0136993) → Rough Creek Mine (1518335)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Gary E  Peyton → Union County Coal Company:** 2001-02-01 through 2001-07-16; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518335; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Heath  Lovell et al → Dodge Hill Mining Company LLC:** 2001-07-17 through 2004-12-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518335; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Steve  Short et al → Dodge Hill Mining Company LLC:** 2001-07-17 through 2004-12-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518335; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Peabody Energy Corporation → Dodge Hill Mining Company LLC:** 2005-01-01 through 2007-10-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518335; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Patriot Coal Corporation → Dodge Hill Mining Company LLC:** 2007-10-31 through 2015-02-02; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518335; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alliance Resource Partners LP → Rough Creek Mining, LLC:** 2015-02-03 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518335; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 6
- Typed edges: 14
- 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 219 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 2,571 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 3,689 violation rows across the full record; 1,183 carry an S&S flag and $1,695,828 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 4K samples:** Occupational health samples 3,148 coal dust; 408 coal quartz; 377 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 112 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 — 1,661 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 612 contested-violation rows, 619 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 430 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 25 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 521 inspection events and 29K 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 75.403 — Maintenance of incombustible content of rock dust.** (4 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-E/section-75.403
- **30 CFR 75.503 — Permissible electric face equipment; maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.503
- **30 CFR 75.512 — Electric equipment; examination, testing and maintenance.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.512
- **30 CFR 75.604 — Permanent splicing of trailing cables.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-G/section-75.604
- **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 75.211 — Roof testing and scaling.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-C/section-75.211
- **30 CFR 75.1403 — Other safeguards.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-O/section-75.1403

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 219 rows; 2001-10-03 through 2014-11-18; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2015-05-28 through 2015-05-28; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 3,627 rows; 2001-07-27 through 2014-12-30; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 619 rows; 2003-01-27 through 2015-12-28; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 3,148 rows; 2001-11-07 through 2014-12-18; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 430 rows; 2001-08-28 through 2015-12-28; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 612 rows; 2004-01-14 through 2014-12-03; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 3,777 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 794 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 6 rows; 2001-02-01 through 2015-02-03; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 521 rows; 2001-03-08 through 2017-04-03; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 236 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 55 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 377 rows; 2001-09-20 through 2014-12-09; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 408 rows; 2002-01-03 through 2014-11-05; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 3,689 rows; 2001-07-27 through 2014-12-30; 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/rough-creek-mine-1518335`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/rough-creek-mine-1518335`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1518335/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1518335/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1518335/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`