# Stones Chapel

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1518567
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Hopkins, KY
- **Operator:** American Mining & Manufacturing of Kentucky LLC
- **Controller:** Timothy P  Smith
- **Public source rows linked:** 3,757
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Timothy P  Smith (C16005) → American Mining & Manufacturing of Kentucky LLC (0073005) → Stones Chapel (1518567)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Timothy P  Smith → American Mining & Manufacturing Corp:** 2002-08-28 through 2006-05-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518567; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Timothy P  Smith → American Mining & Manufacturing of Kentucky LLC:** 2006-06-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518567; 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 — 0 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 47 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 1,182 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 1,031 violation rows across the full record; 240 carry an S&S flag and $134,391 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 424 samples:** Occupational health samples 350 coal dust; 15 coal quartz; 59 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 25 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 10 employee hours and 1 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 133 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 42 contested-violation rows, 52 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 39 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 71 inspection events and 6K 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 48.31 — Hazard training.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-B/section-48.31
- **30 CFR 77.1103 — Flammable liquids; storage.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1103
- **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 75.1909 — Nonpermissible diesel-powered equipment; design and performance requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-T/section-75.1909
- **30 CFR 75.1910 — Nonpermissible diesel-powered equipment; electrical system design and performance requirements.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-T/section-75.1910
- **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 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 45.4 — Independent contractor register.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-G/part-45/section-45.4
- **30 CFR 75.1914 — Maintenance of diesel-powered equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-T/section-75.1914
- **30 CFR 48.27 — Training of miners assigned to a task in which they have had no previous experience; minimum courses of instruction.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-B/section-48.27

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 47 rows; 2002-12-17 through 2007-04-05; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2009-03-31 through 2009-03-31; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 1,003 rows; 2002-11-12 through 2007-04-20; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 52 rows; 2003-11-18 through 2006-01-19; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 350 rows; 2003-01-24 through 2006-11-30; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 39 rows; 2004-06-28 through 2005-05-26; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 42 rows; 2004-02-09 through 2005-05-12; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 774 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 189 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 2002-08-28 through 2006-06-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 71 rows; 2002-10-01 through 2009-02-23; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 62 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 19 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 59 rows; 2003-03-03 through 2006-09-26; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 15 rows; 2003-02-24 through 2006-09-26; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 1,031 rows; 2002-11-12 through 2007-04-20; 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/stones-chapel-1518567`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/stones-chapel-1518567`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1518567/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1518567/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1518567/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`