# Austin Coal Inc #1

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1518336
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Leslie, KY
- **Operator:** Austin Coal Inc
- **Controller:** Ames  Caudill; Stephen T  Adams
- **Public source rows linked:** 466
- **Source coverage:** 14 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Ames  Caudill; Stephen T  Adams (C16000) → Austin Coal Inc (P24536) → Austin Coal Inc #1 (1518336)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Stephen T  Adams et al → Austin Coal Inc:** 2001-02-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518336; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Ames  Caudill et al → Austin Coal Inc:** 2001-02-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518336; 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: 2026-10-17T05:35:58.500035+00:00.

## Assessment signals

1. **SAFETY — 0 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 0 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 30 violation rows across the full record; 9 carry an S&S flag and $2,176 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 154 samples:** Occupational health samples 113 coal dust; 10 coal quartz; 31 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 8 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 40 employee hours and 1 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 7 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 0 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 7 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 3 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 35 inspection events and 543 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 77.1110 — Examination and maintenance of firefighting equipment.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1110
- **30 CFR 77.1605 — Loading and haulage equipment; installations.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1605
- **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 77.1004 — Ground control; inspection and maintenance; general.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-K/section-77.1004
- **30 CFR 77.1710 — Protective clothing; requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-R/section-77.1710
- **30 CFR 72.620 — Drill dust control at surface mines and surface areas of underground mines.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-72/subpart-E/section-72.620
- **30 CFR 71.202 — Certified person; sampling.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-71/subpart-C/section-71.202
- **30 CFR 71.403 — Waiver of surface facilities requirements; posting of waiver.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-71/subpart-E/section-71.403
- **30 CFR 62.130 — Permissible exposure level.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-M/part-62/section-62.130

## Source coverage

- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2005-10-02 through 2005-10-02; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 28 rows; 2001-05-23 through 2005-03-07; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 113 rows; 2001-03-30 through 2005-05-20; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 7 rows; 2004-07-14 through 2004-09-16; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 159 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 23 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 2001-02-01 through 2001-02-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 35 rows; 2001-03-20 through 2005-09-01; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 16 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:** 31 rows; 2002-01-17 through 2005-03-07; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 10 rows; 2001-03-30 through 2005-03-07; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 30 rows; 2001-05-23 through 2005-03-07; 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/austin-coal-inc-1-1518336`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/austin-coal-inc-1-1518336`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1518336/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1518336/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1518336/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`