# Salyers Branch H4

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1518591
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Floyd, KY
- **Operator:** Consol of Kentucky, Inc.
- **Controller:** CONSOL Energy Inc
- **Public source rows linked:** 871
- **Source coverage:** 15 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**CONSOL Energy Inc (C00692) → Consol of Kentucky, Inc. (P22657) → Salyers Branch H4 (1518591)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **CONSOL Energy Inc → Consol of Kentucky, Inc.:** 2002-11-25 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1518591; 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 1 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 106 violation rows across the full record; 43 carry an S&S flag and $15,604 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 79 samples:** Occupational health samples 66 coal dust; 3 coal quartz; 10 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 3 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 — 2 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 0 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 2 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 28 inspection events and 692 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 75.1204 — Mine closure; filing of map with Secretary.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-M/section-75.1204
- **30 CFR 75.203 — Mining methods.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-C/section-75.203
- **30 CFR 75.364 — Weekly examination.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.364
- **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 77.1109 — Quantity and location of firefighting equipment.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1109
- **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 75.220 — Roof control plan.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-C/section-75.220
- **30 CFR 75.335 — Seal strengths, design applications, and installation.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.335
- **30 CFR 75.370 — Mine ventilation plan; submission and approval.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.370

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 1 rows; 2003-12-14 through 2003-12-14; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2004-06-03 through 2004-06-03; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 102 rows; 2002-12-26 through 2004-10-27; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 66 rows; 2003-02-18 through 2004-01-21; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 2 rows; 2003-07-30 through 2003-07-30; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 424 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 118 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 2002-11-25 through 2002-11-25; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 28 rows; 2002-12-12 through 2004-11-03; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 6 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 2 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 10 rows; 2003-02-20 through 2003-12-29; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 3 rows; 2003-08-19 through 2003-11-17; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 106 rows; 2002-12-26 through 2004-10-27; 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/salyers-branch-h4-1518591`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/salyers-branch-h4-1518591`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1518591/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1518591/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1518591/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`