# Joe's Run

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1518418
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Daviess, KY
- **Operator:** Western Kentucky Minerals, Inc.
- **Controller:** Anthony V  Lanham
- **Public source rows linked:** 3,352
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Anthony V  Lanham (C14485) → Western Kentucky Minerals, Inc. (0073203) → Joe's Run (1518418)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Mark A  Rust → Rust Mining, LLC:** 2001-07-01 through 2006-06-22; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518418; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Anthony V  Lanham → Western Kentucky Minerals, Inc.:** 2006-06-23 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518418; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 2
- Typed edges: 6
- 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 — 1 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 10 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 124 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 5 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 207 violation rows across the full record; 80 carry an S&S flag and $52,262 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 339 samples:** Occupational health samples 233 coal dust; 16 coal quartz; 90 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 10 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 2K employee hours and 5 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 17 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 6 contested-violation rows, 6 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 5 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 13 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 — 3 since 2021:** Inspections 61 inspection events and 3K 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 71.404 — Application for waiver of surface facilities requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-71/subpart-E/section-71.404
- **30 CFR 77.1607 — Loading and haulage equipment; operation.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1607
- **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 77.1606 — Loading and haulage equipment; inspection and maintenance.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1606
- **30 CFR 77.205 — Travelways at surface installations.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.205
- **30 CFR 77.410 — Mobile equipment; automatic warning devices.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.410
- **30 CFR 77.1605 — Loading and haulage equipment; installations.** (1 retained recent row) — 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 77.1104 — 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

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 10 rows; 2002-07-02 through 2021-11-01; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2022-05-26 through 2022-05-26; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 205 rows; 2001-11-15 through 2021-07-07; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 6 rows; 2018-11-06 through 2020-12-17; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 233 rows; 2002-04-30 through 2022-02-07; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 5 rows; 2002-09-10 through 2013-08-20; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 6 rows; 2018-04-17 through 2020-04-28; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 1,907 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 443 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 2001-07-01 through 2006-06-23; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 61 rows; 2001-10-05 through 2022-04-10; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 131 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 28 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 90 rows; 2002-08-14 through 2020-12-15; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 16 rows; 2007-11-06 through 2021-08-09; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 207 rows; 2001-11-15 through 2021-07-07; 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/joe-s-run-1518418`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/joe-s-run-1518418`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1518418/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1518418/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1518418/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`