# Taylor Fork Energy

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1518381
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Pike, KY
- **Operator:** Sidney Coal Company Inc
- **Controller:** Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, Inc
- **Public source rows linked:** 9,529
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, Inc (0127923) → Sidney Coal Company Inc (P16149) → Taylor Fork Energy (1518381)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Massey Energy Company → Sidney Coal Company, Inc:** 2001-05-01 through 2004-08-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518381; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Kenneth L  Farley et al → Dry Fork Energy, Inc.:** 2004-08-31 through 2005-07-07; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518381; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Massey Energy Company → Sidney Coal Company Inc:** 2005-07-08 through 2011-05-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518381; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. → Sidney Coal Company, Inc:** 2011-06-01 through 2004-08-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518381; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. → Sidney Coal Company Inc:** 2011-06-01 through 2016-07-25; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518381; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, Inc → Sidney Coal Company, Inc:** 2016-07-26 through 2004-08-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518381; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, Inc → Sidney Coal Company Inc:** 2016-07-26 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518381; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 7
- Typed edges: 14
- Interval anomalies: 2
- 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 76 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 1,665 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 2,232 violation rows across the full record; 641 carry an S&S flag and $1,480,257 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 3K samples:** Occupational health samples 2,238 coal dust; 133 coal quartz; 229 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 70 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 — 1,089 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 510 contested-violation rows, 509 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 70 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 7 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 184 inspection events and 17K 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.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-C/section-75.202
- **30 CFR 75.370 — Mine ventilation plan; submission and approval.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.370
- **30 CFR 75.1403 — Other safeguards.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-O/section-75.1403
- **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 75.523-3 — Automatic emergency-parking brakes.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-F/section-75.523-3
- **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 75.1731 — Maintenance of belt conveyors and belt conveyor entries.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1731

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 76 rows; 2002-03-18 through 2015-11-25; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2015-10-06 through 2015-10-06; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 2,183 rows; 2001-09-25 through 2015-02-05; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 509 rows; 2007-02-13 through 2015-09-04; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 2,238 rows; 2001-10-15 through 2014-11-25; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 70 rows; 2002-07-16 through 2014-12-02; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 510 rows; 2006-01-17 through 2014-12-08; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 837 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 146 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 7 rows; 2001-05-01 through 2005-07-08; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 184 rows; 2001-08-01 through 2015-08-10; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 142 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 31 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 229 rows; 2004-09-28 through 2014-11-25; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 133 rows; 2001-11-15 through 2014-11-12; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 2,232 rows; 2001-09-25 through 2015-02-05; 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/taylor-fork-energy-1518381`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/taylor-fork-energy-1518381`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1518381/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1518381/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1518381/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`