# Noble Mine #1

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1518399
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Perry, KY
- **Operator:** Noble Construction
- **Controller:** Richard E  Noble
- **Public source rows linked:** 229
- **Source coverage:** 14 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Richard E  Noble (C16059) → Noble Construction (P24653) → Noble Mine #1 (1518399)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Richard E  Noble → Noble Construction:** 2001-06-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518399; 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 0 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 55 violation rows across the full record; 21 carry an S&S flag and $5,279 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 53 samples:** Occupational health samples 27 coal dust; 2 coal quartz; 24 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 — 6 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 3 contested-violation rows, 3 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 0 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 31 inspection events and 439 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 77.1104 — Accumulations of combustible materials.** (4 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1104
- **30 CFR 77.404 — Machinery and equipment; operation and maintenance.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.404
- **30 CFR 77.400 — Mechanical equipment guards.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.400
- **30 CFR 77.1605 — Loading and haulage equipment; installations.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1605
- **30 CFR 77.1713 — Daily inspection of surface coal mine; certified person; reports of inspection.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-R/section-77.1713
- **30 CFR 77.1109 — Quantity and location of firefighting equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1109

## Source coverage

- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2006-10-25 through 2006-10-25; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 54 rows; 2002-09-24 through 2006-08-02; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 3 rows; 2005-06-15 through 2005-06-15; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 27 rows; 2002-09-10 through 2006-07-19; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Contested Violations:** 3 rows; 2004-09-15 through 2004-12-13; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 2 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 2001-06-01 through 2001-06-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 31 rows; 2001-08-02 through 2006-10-04; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 20 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 5 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 24 rows; 2002-09-10 through 2006-03-29; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 2 rows; 2004-07-26 through 2005-03-30; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 55 rows; 2002-09-24 through 2006-08-14; 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/noble-mine-1-1518399`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/noble-mine-1-1518399`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1518399/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1518399/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1518399/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`